Goods and Services Tax : It may be noted that the GST Act has, instead of providing a mechanism for valuation of land involved in the composite works contr...
Goods and Services Tax : A significant number of web sites, such as, Amazon.in, Flipkart.com, Snapdeal.com, eBay.in, etc., are engaged in E-Commerce (E-Com...
Goods and Services Tax : Delhi, being the trading centre, issuance of credit notes in respect of discounts and incentives by the sellers to the buyers is a...
Goods and Services Tax : The composition scheme, notified vide No. 3(13)/Fin.(rev-1)/2012-13/dsvi/180 dated 28.2.2013 (effective from 1.4.2013), issued u/s...
Goods and Services Tax : Where the property is booked by the intended purchaser at the time of commencement of the project and the builder is paying VAT (a...
Goods and Services Tax : Delhi Tax Compliance Achievement Scheme, 2013 (DCS) - FAQs - The Scheme is notified to Tax dispute related to Delhi Value added...
It may be noted that the GST Act has, instead of providing a mechanism for valuation of land involved in the composite works contract and to reduce the same from the gross consideration, specified reduced tax rate of 12%. It implies that the legislature has assumed the value of land as 33% of the total consideration.
A significant number of web sites, such as, Amazon.in, Flipkart.com, Snapdeal.com, eBay.in, etc., are engaged in E-Commerce (E-Com., in short) activities in India. The two major forms of E-Commerce are Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B). While most of the companies cater mainly to consumers, the other companies might provide goods and services exclusively to other businesses.
Delhi, being the trading centre, issuance of credit notes in respect of discounts and incentives by the sellers to the buyers is a common marketing phenomenon. Where the consideration as per the original sale bill is reduced due to offer of discount, incentives, etc., credit note is issued by the seller to the purchaser.
The composition scheme, notified vide No. 3(13)/Fin.(rev-1)/2012-13/dsvi/180 dated 28.2.2013 (effective from 1.4.2013), issued u/s 16(12) of the DVAT Act for works contract dealers has been modified vide present notification.
Where the property is booked by the intended purchaser at the time of commencement of the project and the builder is paying VAT (as applicable) on its entire revenue, there would be minimum complexity.
With the issuance of couple of circulars in May’13 and June’13 by the Haryana VAT Department recently, clarifying certain aspects on VAT on builders’ projects, this branch of indirect tax has been activated on these builders’ projects.
For the purpose of computation of taxable turnover in works contracts: Where amount of labour, services and other like charges is not ascertainable from the books of accounts of the dealer (being works contractor) or where he fails to produce documentary evidence in support of such charges, the amount of such charges shall be calculated on the basis of percentages specified in the Table given in Rule 3(2) of the Delhi VAT Rules.
Delhi Tax Compliance Achievement Scheme, 2013 (DCS) – FAQs – The Scheme is notified to Tax dispute related to Delhi Value added tax pending in various court and to provide an opportunity to defaulting dealers to achieve self compliance.
In short, our present discussion is confined to implication of VAT and Service Tax on those contracts where, apart from material and services, value of land is also taking part of the bargain, and the size of the plot is limited to few hundred yards containing, generally, four to ten units.
