Finally, within few hours, the biggest tax reform, since independence i.e. GST after crossing all the setbacks, COMING INTO PICTURE. In a short span of time, GST became the talk of the nation. The waves of GST are all around the corner.
Right before the roll out of GST, let’s have a quick recap of the list of rate of services, approved by the GST Council in its 14th Meeting with related amendments, so far covering the Services under Reverse Charge and Services Exempted under GST.
Section 22 of CGST deals with the persons who are required to be registered under GST. It says, Every supplier shall be liable to be registered under this Act in the State or Union territory, other than special category States, from where he makes a taxable supply of goods or services or both, if his aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds twenty lakh rupees:
Indeed, rolling out of GST from July 1, 2017 is unstoppable. But to provide relief to the taxpayers, GST Council in its latest meeting, extended the time period for filing of return i.e. FORM GSTR-1 & FORM GSTR-2 for the first two months after the roll out of GST.
As of today, all the States and Union Territories (having assemblies), except the State of Jammu & Kashmir, have approved the State Goods and Services Tax (SGST) Act. The State of Kerala issued an Ordinance today approving State GST Act while the State of West Bengal had issued an Ordinance in this regard on 15th June, 2017.
On 19th June 2017 CBEC released Six Central Tax notifications , two Integrated Tax notifications paving the way for implementation of GST with effect from 01st July 2017. In Addition to that it also released with Format GST Rules related to Advance Ruling , Anti Profiteering, Appeals and Revision, Assessment and Audit and E-way. Details […]
With the GST set to be rolled out on 1st Jul y 2017, the final phase of preparation for its implementation is in full swing. Customs too has a major stake in the early implementation of GST as IGST would begin to be levied on the imports from the very first day, the credit of which shall be available to the importers.
Advisory for migration- The GST common portal would reopen for migration on 25th June 2017. Assessees are required to complete the migration process before 30th September 2017. DG Systems is constantly compiling the provisional Id requests and sending them to GSTN for creation of Provisional IDs and pursuing with GSTN for resolution of problems faced […]
The way forward: 1. If you are a Taxpayer having received Acknowledgement Reference Number (ARN): You should be able to download the Provisional Registration Certificate from “Download Certificates” at GST website from 27th June 2017. 2. If you are a Taxpayer, who has saved the enrolment form with all details but has not submitted the […]
At every nook and corner of India GST has become the most hot topic for discussion. And the key issues in the discussion are : Will it come from 1st July? Will the things become costly or cheaper ? What about stock on 30th June ? Should I keep stock or sell out ?