Custom Duty : Should Cess and Surcharge Be Permanent? Explore the history and purpose of Cess and its impact on taxes and duties....
Income Tax : Clarification regarding treatment of cess and surcharge Section 40 of the Act specifies the amounts which shall not be deducted in...
Goods and Services Tax : As GST sought to consolidate multiple taxes into one it was very essential to have transitional provisions to ensure that the tran...
Income Tax : Interesting Income Tax Issues: Deduction of Health and Education Cess from Taxable Income : AY 2020-21 Background Sec. 40(a)(ii) ...
Goods and Services Tax : Whether the Respondent is entitled to carry forward the accumulated unutilized amount of EC, SHEC and KKC to be utilized against t...
Corporate Law : The government outlined year-wise collections and utilisation of major cesses and surcharges, confirming they are credited to the ...
Service Tax : CESTAT Mumbai held that accumulated credit of Education Cess, SHE Cess, and KKC cannot be transitioned or refunded because these l...
Service Tax : CESTAT Kolkata held that notification no. 41/2012-ST grants refund of service tax paid on the taxable services used for export of ...
Service Tax : CESTAT set aside the impugned order pertaining to the rejection of refund of unutilized cenvat credit of Education Cess, SHEC and ...
Service Tax : Explore the CESTAT Chandigarh ruling in Schlumberger Asia Services Ltd. vs. Commissioner of CE & ST on the timeliness of a refund ...
Income Tax : Overseas Polymers Private Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) Legislature in Sec. 40(a)(ii) has though provided that ‘any rate or ...
Service Tax : Central Government, hereby exempts taxable services with respect to which the invoice for the service has been issued on or befor...
Service Tax : (7E) The person liable for paying the service tax under sub-rule (7), (7A), (7B) or (7C) of rule 6, shall have the option to pay s...
Service Tax : the SEZ Unit or the Developer shall be entitled to refund of- (i) the service tax paid on the specified services on which ab-ini...
Service Tax : The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) by notificati...
Service Tax : Provided that Krishi Kalyan Cess shall be leviable only on that percentage of taxable value which is specified in column (3) for t...
Whether the Respondent is entitled to carry forward the accumulated unutilized amount of EC, SHEC and KKC to be utilized against the output GST tax liability?
Assistant Commissioner of CGST and Central Excise Vs Sutherland Global Services Private Limited (Madras High Court) Whether the Assessee is entitled to utilise and set off the accumulated unutilised amount of Education Cess (EC), Secondary and Higher Education Cess (SHEC) and Krishi Kalyan Cess (KKC), all jointly referred to as the “Cess” against the Output […]
Assistant commissioner of CGST and Central excise Vs. M/s Sutherland global services (Madras High Court) Madras High Court Division Bench stays order of single judge in Matter relating to transition of education cess, secondary and higher education cess and krishi Kalyan cess into the Gst regime. FULL TEXT OF THE HIGH COURT ORDER /JUDGEMENT Mr.Raghavan […]
HC, Madras in the matter of Sutherland Global Services Private Limited v. Assistant Commissioner CGST and Central Excise, has allowed the writ petition challenging the denial of transitional credit of Education Cess (EC), Secondary and Higher Education Cess (SHEC) and Krishi Kalyan Cess (KKC) into GST regime through the TRAN-1 declaration.
What are Cess and Surcharge? While calculating income tax, you have to calculate Cess and Surcharge also. Especially for those who are going to file income tax for the first time, the term Cess and Surcharge is a bit of a brainwave. In this article, we will understand the meaning of Cess and Surcharge. It […]
Can Delhi High Court decision in the case of ‘Cellular operators association of India Vs. UOI’ block migration of KKC? Revenue authorities are issuing show cause notice to the registered taxable persons who had migrated accumulated credit of Krishi Kalayan Cess (herein after referred as KKC) from erstwhile tax regime to new tax regime vide Trans-1 Form.
Government has levied a new Cess to be called as Krishi Kalyan Cess (KKC) with effect from 1.6.2016. The purpose of imposition of this cess is to finance & promote initiatives to improve agriculture or for any other purpose relating thereto.
1. POT for determination of KKC liability for Service Provider (SP): Rule 5 is applicable for determination of KKC liability for Service Provider (SP) due to the amendment in Budget 2016-17 and Notification No. 35/2016 also clarifies the applicability of KKC.
A Cess is a tax which is collected by the government to be used for a specific purpose. Thus collections from levy of cess can be used only for the purpose for which it has been collected and not for any other purpose, Finance Minister has mentioned in his budget speech that proceeds of KKC would be exclusively used for financing initiatives relating to improvement of agriculture and welfare of farmers.
The concern of the industry that KKC shall be levied on the opening debtors i.e. remaining unpaid as on 31.03.2016 has been duly answered and no KKC shall be levied on such amounts. Though the notification is effective from 23.6.2016, payments of opening debtors as received between 01.6.2016 and 22.6.2016 can still be a cause of litigation
