Nowadays Social Media is abuzz with an Alleged Show Cause Notice for Penalty for non-issuance of Tax Invoice, issued under APGST Act, 2017 by Anantapuram Division, Dharmavaram Circle, Department of State Tax, Government of Andhra Pradesh dated 05.09.2017 by which department has proposed to levy a Penalty of Rs. 20000/- for Tax Evasion of Rs. 15. […]
1. To reduce the rate of GST on following services from 18% to 12%: Services provided to the Government, a local authority or a governmental authority by way of construction, erection, commissioning, installation, completion, fitting out, repair, maintenance, renovation, or alteration of –(a) a civil structure or any other original works meant predominantly for use other than for commerce, industry, or any other business or profession;
Increase in rate of the Compensation Cess on certain specified motor vehicles As per discussions in the 21st GST Council Meeting held on 9th September, 2017: Segment Heading Present Compensation Cess rate Proposed Compensation Cess rate Passenger Vehicles of heading 8703 Small Cars (length < 4 m ; Petrol<1200 cc) 8703 1% No change Small […]
GSTR-3B will continue to be filed for the months of August to December, 2017. A registered person (whether migrated or new registrant), who could not opt for composition scheme, shall be given the option to avail composition till 30th September 2017 and such registered person shall be permitted to avail the benefit of composition scheme with effect from 1st October, 2017.
GST which was termed as biggest economic reform after independence was made a reality with effect from 1st July 2017. Approximately 70 days have elapsed and still the GSTN portal which was termed by its Ex Chief (who retired yesterday) Navin Kumar as capable of taking over processing 300 Crores Invoices per month.
As an addendum to my earlier open letter to Honorable Prime Minister of India, I thought to pen down suggestion based on my experiences; input from various professional colleagues and taxpayers -how the GSTN network should work to really term it as user friendly. The successful implementation of GST Law heavily depends on technology, as government plans to make it front end and done way with all kinds of manual intervention.
It is auto-populated from the GSTR 1/5, GSTR 6 (ISD), GST 7(TDS), and GSTR 8 (TCS) filed by the supplier taxpayer from whom goods and/or services have been procured or received by the receiver taxpayer in a given tax period.
I am a small-time professional chartered accountant in field of Taxation practicing since 21 years. Have seen massive transformation of manual to fully automated system of filing the returns be it be Income Tax(CPC), Be it be TDS(TRACES), Be it be VAT (MAHAVAT), be it be Service Tax(ACES), be it ROC Filing (MCA) etc.
Inconsistency in GSTN Portal, ie fields available in login of one dealer is not available in the login of other dealer. Option to chose composition scheme & cancellation of registration not available, even though composition scheme opted, it is not reflected in RC issued & getting message to file Form No.3B.
Tally have yesterday issued an advisory to its users on 4th September 2017 and suggested them to use GSTR Offline Utility 1.1 instead of GSTR Offline Utility 1.2. In their opinion use of GSTR Offline Utility 1.2 may potentially lead to an erroneous return which we may not be able to discover while filing. Extract […]
