The issue regarding GST applicability on lease transactions has been an issue of disagreement by the taxpayer as the law does not seeks to distinguish between the long term lease such as that of 99 years which actually has the character of “sale”. The definition of supply under section 7 of the CGST Act, 2017 … Read more
In this update we shall discuss a recent advance ruling pronounced by Tamil Nadu AAR in the case of VENBAKKAM COMMANDUR JANARDHAN, proprietor of M/s Law Weekly Journal on the issue whether the sale of DVD’s/CD’s containing the printed content in electronic form with a software to search and read in computers fall under the … Read more
Since July 2017, implementation of GST in India is successful due to GSTN. But still there are many issues and scope of improvement in functioning and technical performance of GSTN. Taxpayers face numerous problems while filing returns, statements, replying to SCNs etc on online portal. Time and again, taxpayers have made representations to the government … Read more
Printing Industry is a very wide Industry ranging from Newspapers to Commercial Books and Periodicals. The present update seeks to discuss about the divergent advance rulings pronounced by different AARs in the case of same assessee, M/s Macro Digital Imaging Pvt Ltd. where the applicant is registered in different States. On the first occasion, the … Read more
This papa: – Exporters are facing acute crunch of working capital as they continue to experience refund issues in the post-GST regime with the government inserting rules retrospectively and taking a rigid stance on how certain policies should be implemented. One of the problems faced recently in case of refund in GST is as follows- … Read more
The Authority for Advance Ruling under GST is constituted in terms of provisions contained in section 96 of the CGST Act, 2017 read with Rule 103 of the CGST Rules, 2017 wherein the government appoints officers not below the rank of Joint Commissioner as member of the Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR). Similarly, the Appellate … Read more
There is good news for every taxpayer who has felt a need of revision facility of GST returns. Few days back, government has provided a new facility on GST portal to file amendment in returns. This facility can be accessed using Services>Returns Dashboard >File Amendment Return. This facility has been introduced after the pronouncement of … Read more
Export of goods or services is treated as a zero-rated supply. An exporter dealing in zero-rated supplies can make exports with or without payment of tax. The exporter may supply goods or services or both after paying the amount of IGST and can claim a refund of the amount of tax paid on such goods … Read more
This Papa: In order to limit the exporters from claiming the refund on the basis of ineligible documents or fraudulently, customs department has marked few exporters as “risky exporters”. Whereby based on the based on a certain criteria as well as artifical intelligence, the system identify the “risky exporters” and send such list to respective … Read more
The Government has launched e- Sanchit. e-Sanchit is an electronically storage and Computerized Handling of Indirect Tax Documents for paperless processing, uploading of supporting documents, to facilitate the trading across Borders. It has already been made available to importers and exporters in the country and as a next step, CBIC is extending this facility to … Read more