Centre and state GST officers are working with online gaming sector experts to define 'games of skill' and 'games of chance' with a view to design d ...
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Surat Economic Offences (EO) cell Friday nabbed 12 persons from Surat, Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Junagadh and Amroli for allegedly availing Inpu ...
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With inflation likely to remain elevated for a longer period and key state elections due in 2023, the Narendra Modi 2.0 government may choose not to ...
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There is distortion between the decision taken on fly ash bricks and blocks at the 47th GST Council Meeting held in June this year and the subsequen ...
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Weavers from the State have asked the Union government to withdraw the GST levied on handloom products as it has been affecting their business drastic ...
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The GST Council is likely to meet in the first half of November to discuss the reports of the panel of ministers on setting up GST appellate tribunal ...
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GST and Central Excise Department, Chennai Outer Commissionerate, has arrested one person for alleged GST credit fraud of about Rs. 31 crore. Accordin ...
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The compliance audit (Revenue) report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for the year, ending March 31, 2020, which was tabled in t ...
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The government is considering a Goods and Services Tax (GST) dispute settlement scheme offering a one-time opportunity for businesses to settle tax ca ...
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It is almost four months since last meeting took place but there is still no indication about when the next meeting will happen. Technically, the meet ...
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The Gujarat Goods and Service Tax (GST) department arrested one person from Bhavnagar who it claimed to be the “mastermind” in a bogus billing scam wo ...
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Big States such as Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Karnataka have recorded double digit growth in GST revenue during the first three months after the end of ...
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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has written a letter to his opposite numbers in 17 different states, along with 5 dominated with the aid of ...
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With an aim to boost domestic supply and containing prices of edible oil, The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has extended existing ...
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Businesses can now claim input tax credits (ITC) for 2021-22 and correct any errors in outward supplies data up to November 30.Govt made an amendmen ...
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The Mumbai unit of Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) is investigating 15 insurance companies, including ICICI Prudential Life Insurance ...
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The Delhi High Court has held that Goods and Service Tax is not payable on renting a residential dwelling for personal use. The division bench of ...
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Goods and services tax (GST) collections in September are likely to be about Rs 1.45 trillion, a senior official told, adding that the monthly avera ...
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Aiming to provide friendly taxpayer services, the Centre is working on decriminalising certain offences under the goods and services tax (GST) by ra ...
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After over three years of existence, a Group of Ministers (GoM) for GST on real estate has yet again got another set of members, including the conve ...
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The Karnataka High Court has set 11 October as the date for the next hearing in the case of Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) vs Gameskra ...
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Officials of the Jammu and Kashmir administration held a coordination meeting the GST officials of the central government for the first time to discus ...
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Transport and highways minister pitched for discounts of up to Rs 1 lakh for car buyers who opted for scrapping their old vehicles, while promising to ...
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The CBIC has developed a system for online monitoring of GST audits initiated by tax officials across the country for effective oversight of the audit ...
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Seeking remedy on undue practices on refunds, the Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) has reached out to airlines seeking clarifications on ...

The Tamil Nadu GST Department has notified the procedure for re-crediting the amount in the electronic credit ledger using FORM GST PMT-03A.If the ref ...
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Union revenue secretary nudged the indirect tax officers to try and garner about Rs 1.5 trillion as monthly GST collection from October onwards by ens ...
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CGST Bhiwandi officers in the Mumbai zone have booked a company for fraudulently availing ITC on bogus invoices. A partner of the company was also arr ...
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Finance minister has asked the CBIC to use artificial intelligence, data analytics and internet of things (IoT) to identify leakages arising from frau ...
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Delhi's GST collection has registered an incremental rise in the first quarter of the financial year 2022-23, standing at Rs 4,349 crore in August. Th ...
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The Punjab Vigilance Bureau during its campaign against corruption arrested six Passers/Mediators accused in the GST scam. These private persons were ...
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The Supreme Court asked the Centre to file its response on a batch of pleas seeking directions for constituting the GST Appellate Tribunal on utmost p ...
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In a big decision taken by the brick kiln owners as part of their ongoing protest against the CG, they have decided to halt the sale of bricks for six ...
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Daal millers of the country have urged Union finance minister to abolish 5% GST on by-products of pulses like broken pieces of daal and its husk. A de ...
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Businesses are set to get credits for taxes paid in the pre-GST era worth about Rs. 400 crore, with the government set to open a special window for bu ...
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A man was arrested in Mumbai for allegedly creating a web of 36 fake GST firms through which he generated fake invoices of Rs. 132 crore and availed o ...
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Prosecution can be launched against offenders in cases where the amount of evasion or misuse of input tax credit (ITC) is more than Rs 5 crore under t ...
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Robust GST revenue in August of over 1.4 lakh crore for the sixth month in a row shows that inflation has had a limited impact on the Indian economy, ...
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The Finance Minister of Punjab, Harpal Singh Cheema promised that he will advocate for the bicycle industry’s request to have the GST reduced to 5% wi ...
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Sleuths of Customs Commissionerate (Preventive), Vijayawada, seized concealed foreign brand cigarettes worth Rs eight crore in a container truck. K. E ...
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The Telangana HC has held that the investigation post-filing of the application would not debar the applicant from seeking an advance ruling. The divi ...
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Inclusion of petroleum products, electricity and real estate within the ambit of GST will make Indian manufacturing sector more competitive, according ...
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The Allahabad High Court has imposed a cost of Rs. 50,000 for the arbitrary cancellation of GST registration. The single bench of Justice Pankaj Bha ...
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A Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala has recommended empowering states to relax the experience crite ...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to reconsider the move to levy GST on unbranded and pre-packed f ...
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Swinging to garba tunes has become expensive this year. The government has imposed goods and services tax (GST) on the Navratri venues that charge e ...
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To bring transparency and check harassment to honest taxpayers, the Supreme Court has asked the GST Council to recommend or issue advisory or instru ...
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The Government has permitted companies, after the change of GST, to indicate revised retail price via a stamp or sticker on unsold packaged goods ti ...
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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said there is no GST on chequebooks for bank customers, as she tried to clear "misinformation" over issues related ...
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A group of ministers (GoM), authorised to examine rate rationalisation by the all-powerful Goods and Services Tax Council, is reportedly considering ...
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Chief minister Bhagwant Mann demanded immediate rollback of the Centre’s decision to levy good and services tax (GST) on ‘serais’ (inns) in the vici ...
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Before a proposed protest demonstration of apple growers in Shimla on August 5, the Himachal government has decided that a subsidy of 6 per cent on ...
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The Kerala government has decided to avoid the GST implementation on 13 food products, state food minister GR Anil clarified while urging the Centre ...
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Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism and Hospitality, FAITH, the policy federation of all the ten national associations representing the com ...
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Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), the leading financial institution for the MSME sector, has invited banks and NBFCs to test its inv ...
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The CPI (M) cadre staged demonstration in protest against the 5% Goods and Service Tax slapped on essential commodities including rice, wheat and curd ...
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The Gujarat High Court (HC) has provided relief to importers by directing the Centre to refund the Goods and Services Tax (GST) paid on ocean freight ...
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The Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism & Hospitality (FAITH), a policy federation of all ten associations representing tourism, travel a ...
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The GST-Authority for Advance Rulings, Andhra Pradesh, in the case of Sri Vinayaka Hatcheries has held that renting of land for the purpose of fish fa ...
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The Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, will meet on August 17 again to finalise its recommendations ...
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A day after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced that the state government will not implement the new 5 per cent GST on select food items, Financ ...
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Dairy farmers from States such as Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala, held protests here, urging the Centre to revoke the decision to impose ...
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The Cabinet gave the nod for restructuring the State Goods and Services Tax (GST) department. Finance Minister K. N. Balagopal said the reforms will b ...
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India has no proposal to relax the mandatory provisions of e-invoicing under the GST, according to a parliamentary response by the finance minister. ...
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After the two-day GST council meeting held on July 23 to 24 at Bengaluru, the GST Council's Group of Ministers (GoM) discussed the tax rates levied ...
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Kerala state Finance Minister K N Balagopal has written to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman claiming that the state is undergoing a financi ...
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A raft of changes announced by the GST Council last week, including the one to expedite refunds to those categorized as “risky exporters”, will certai ...
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With the GST slab rejig on the cards, revenue secretary said the government may continue with the highest GST slab of 28% on luxury/sin goods while ex ...
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Traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) said that the decision to levy five per cent GST on pre-packed and labelled food items will ca ...
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JSW Steel Ltd, a multinational steel manufacturing company based in Mumbai, has turned the highest GST contributor in Karnataka for the financial year ...
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The Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce has urged the SG not to accept the GST hike on essential food products, stating that the price hike has affected th ...
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The group of ministers (GoM) reviewing the GST slabs for online gaming, horse racing and casinos is unlikely to tweak the 28% rate recommended for the ...
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The decision of the GST Council in its 47th Meeting held last week in Chandigarh to impose 5% GST on dairy items like “pre- packed, pre-labelled curd, ...
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The CBIC has prescribed the detailed procedure to be followed by GST department from June 14 for sanctioning of refund and further prescribed procedur ...
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Verification after registration for high-risk taxpayers under GST, along with use of geo-tagging and physical verification, are some of the measures s ...
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Those who buy cars, caffeinated drinks and tobacco will continue to pay GST until March 2026, according to a government decree on Saturday extending t ...
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The tax burden could increase on items like water pumps, dairy machinery, leather products and solar water pumps, and services like hospital rooms wit ...
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The GST Council in its meeting next week is likely to consider a proposal to make changes in the monthly tax payment form GSTR-3B, which would include ...
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To encourage online retail, the GST Council is likely to exempt small entities making supplies through e-commerce from mandatory registration requirem ...
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The GST department may soon issue clarifications on certain vexed issues in tax rates, including exemptions to assisted reproductive technology (ART) ...
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The GST Council is likely to consider making an e-way bill mandatory for intra-state movement of gold or precious stones worth Rs 2 lakh and above and ...
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The GST Council is likely to clear the air on perquisites taxation and interest calculation for delayed payment of tax, among others, in its meeting s ...
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A majority of Indians want the government to levy 28% or higher GST on cryptocurrencies, online gaming, casino and horse racing. But they are against ...
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The fitment committee of the GST Council has suggested a cut in the tax rate on ostomy appliances from 12% to 5% and a uniform tax of 5% on orthopedic ...
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The Finance Minister, virtually witnessed destruction of 44,000 kilogram of drugs incinerated simultaneously at 14 locations by the Customs and Direct ...
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Despite high inflation, the upcoming meeting of the GST Council is unlikely to cut rates on major consumer products like air-conditioners, electronic ...
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A group of ministers reviewing GST rates has proposed removal of exemptions on a host of services, including for stay in relatively cheaper hotel room ...
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The proposed free trade agreement with the EU, when implemented, will provide greater market access for several domestic sectors such as textiles, lea ...
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The Madras HC recently upheld the order of the Principal Commissioner (Revision Application) opined that the law was unambiguous in this regard. Thoug ...
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The AAR observed that since the applicant would have a single GST No. for both the units, then as per section 16(1) of the CGST Act, 2017, there would ...
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The AAR found that the words in the letters of the Secretary, Uttarakhand Government and Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divya ...
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The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the UAE and India will help reduce tariffs and facilitate trade between the two countr ...
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CBIC has urged tax payers to file their monthly GST returns for May by 20 June as delay would lead to late fee and interest liability. The tax authori ...
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An extra GST of Rs. 3 charged on biryani cost Swiggy and a restaurant dearly. Following a complaint, the Hyderabad District Consumer Disputes Redressa ...
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The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has appreciated the rationalization exercise of GST rates by the GST Council and has urged Union Finance ...
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The Group of Ministers (GoM), constituted to review the current rate slab structure under the GST regime, will prepare an interim report and will seek ...
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A group of ministers reviewing the GST rates has decided to remove exemption for packaged food items, if sold under unregistered brands. These ite ...

The 47th meeting of the GST Council will be held in Srinagar on June 28 and 29, union FM said. The meeting was originally scheduled for April, but due ...
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A Parliamentary committee report on the promotion and regulation of e-commerce in India has opined multiple steps for the government to be taken to bo ...
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Maharashtra AAR ruling has said that any voluntary payment made to a housing society by a member or a resident should attract GST. The ruling in the m ...
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MP Chief minister said that it is necessary to increase the GST revenue in order to make the state progress rapidly. For this, the high-power committe ...
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The GST council will take a decision on the demand by Goa and other smaller states on continuing with compensation cess, CBIC chairman said. The Union ...
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The Union government has estimated the monthly GST collection at over Rs 1.2 lakh crore, said CBIC chairman. He added that there’s a need for the GST ...
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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Chief Commissioner said that all methods are being adopted to bring defaulters into the tax ambit. He said d ...
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The tax consultants have demanded that a bench of the GST appellate tribunal should be constituted in the state. As per the provisions of GST Law the ...
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The CGST department has arrested a sales executive of a metal company for alleged fraudulent claim of ITC of Rs 7 crore. The CGST Mumbai Central unit ...
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Months after levying taxes on income from virtual currency, the government is mulling over the applicability of the GST on cryptocurrency to bring mor ...
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Even as the government takes a hit on revenue due to the recent excise and custom duty cuts on fuel and certain commodities, going by the preliminary ...
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The Gujarat HC bench has quashed the GST cancellation order as it was non-speaking and vague. The court remitted the matter to the respondent/departme ...
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The finance ministry is working on a detailed mechanism that can resolve GST disputes raised by states while avoiding distortions in the tax regime. T ...
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The CBI arrested two superintendents of GST and one superintendent of Customs in alleged cases of bribery. “Searches were conducted on the premises of ...
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Rent or leave and license fees received by an owner of a residential flat, even if such flat has been let out to corporate entities for the use of its ...
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Around 30% of the dealers registered with Tamil Nadu’s Commercial Taxes Department (approx. 3.26 lakh) did not pay a single rupee as GST during 2021-2 ...
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The State GST Department has invited applications from traders to avail of the amnesty scheme announced in the state budget 2022. Applications can be ...
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A group of ministers headed by Karnataka CM will get another six months to submit its report on restructuring of GST slabs. “This (rate rejig) is a co ...
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The end of this month marked the end of the contentious five-year period for GST compensation to states from the Centre. With that, several state gove ...
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The Maharashtra bench of the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) has held recently that when food items are supplied to school kids, and their ...
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Maharashtra deputy CM said they were yet to receive Rs. 15,502 crore in the GST compensation from the CG. Pawar, who also holds the finance portfolio, ...
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UP is the largest number of businesses in the country registered for paying GST, with small businesses accounting for the chunk. This makes the most p ...
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The government waived late fees for small taxpayers registered under the composition system for the financial year 2021-22 for a period of two months, ...
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Tax authorities will now face action if a taxpayer makes voluntary payment of tax during a search. In a move aimed at curbing instances of use of forc ...
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Examination can be considered an essential component of education, so State Boards are eligible for exemption from levy of GST, Gujarat Appellate Auth ...
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GST revenues in May are likely to be at Rs. 1.4 lakh crore. GST revenue in April was at record high of Rs. 1.67 lakh crore. GST revenue in May last ye ...
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In a big operation against tax evasion, the State GST’s (SGST) Ludhiana teams of different ranges conducted seven inspections at various places in the ...
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The GST rate rationalisation exercise is likely to be delayed because of inflationary pressure and geopolitical tensions. The government will stick to ...
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A higher tax slab for online gaming will not only lead to proliferation of a parallel black market but also act as a major barrier when it comes to at ...
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Teams of GST department conducted raid at the same time across 22 locations of gutkha distributors and manufacturers in Agra. Some major names include ...
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Sweet manufacturers across the state have revived their demand for waiver of GST on boiled sweets like Rasogolla that are exclusive to Bengal so that ...
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The Kerala state GST department booked 17,262 cases of tax evasion in 2021-22. A sum of Rs. 79.48 crore was collected as tax and fine from these cases ...
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Some states are taking a legal view on the state GST rate and the compensation rules ahead of the GST Council meeting, which is likely to be held in m ...
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The plan to rationalize GST rates to boost revenue collection for CG and SG may get delayed because of the sudden deterioration in macroeconomic condi ...
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Amid some chartered accountants coming under the scanner for alleged fraudulent GST refunds, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held discussions with ...
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The Aam Aadmi Party appealed to the CG to bring petroleum products under the GST or cut oil prices further to give relief to common people. AAP’ state ...
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A group of ministers (setup by GST Council) has found merit in imposing 28% GST on online gaming to bring it at par with levies on casinos, race cours ...
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The GST department arrested one person in connection to an alleged scam of about Rs 88 crore. Shashank Vaidya, the accused, has been remanded ...

The SC on Thursday held that the recommendations of the GST Council are not binding on the Union and state governments, said the Parliament intended t ...
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As taxpayers faced technical glitches on the GST portal, the government extended the due date for April tax payment till May 24 and has directed Infos ...
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A plan to levy GST on pan masala and gutkha on the basis of installed manufacturing capacity may be dropped due to the difficulties in administeri ...

The Allahabad HC bench of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Brij Raj Singh, while dealing with the issue of the applicability ...

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) urged the GST Council to continue maintaining the GST on online gaming at 18 per cent and any fur ...
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Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh have topped in Goods and Services Tax (GST) registrations by businesses and dealers followed by Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, ...
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The Chairman NETA stated, “It has been observed that during the last ten months, i.e. from July, 2021 to April, 2022 the price of Natural Gas has rise ...
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The compensation period to states for any loss of revenue under the Goods and Services Tax regime, which ends in June, must be extended by another thr ...
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One of the reasons for the low digital penetration of MSMEs are complex Good and Services Tax (GST) compliance requirements needed to make the transit ...
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The Calcutta High Court bench of Justice Md. Nizamuddin has held that the Input Tax Credit (ITC) cannot be denied on genuine transactions with supplie ...
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Punjab is staring at a major crisis in the coming days, with the compensation for the rollout of goods and services tax (GST) about to end in June ...

Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) unit unearthed a fake input tax credit (ITC) racket and arrested the proprietor of a Dahisar-based firm, for fra ...
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Some commodities which are perceived to be sin goods have seen Goods and Services (GST) rates rising to a point where further taxation isn't an option ...
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Delhi registered a record Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection of Rs 2,898 crore in the first month of financial year 2022-23, said the officials.T ...
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Civil society organisations and doctors have urged the GST Council to increase compensation cess on all tobacco products to generate additional revenu ...
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Minister of state for home and information technology Satej Patil, raised apprehensions over the proposal of levying 28% Goods and Services Tax (GST) ...
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The online skill-based gaming industry has made a case for retaining the service under the 18 percent GST slab instead of the 28 percent tax rate cate ...
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AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam urged Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin to hold discussions with Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and c ...
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Leading industry body, Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), has shot off letters to the Finance Ministry as well as the GST Council, urgi ...
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Technical glitches in Goods and Services Tax (GST) portal for last four days have left dealers worried about missing the fast approaching due date for ...
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Not receiving enough share of GST (goods and services tax) ever since a new government took over in the state, the local civic body has entered a phas ...
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In what could further dampen the mood of crypto investors in the country, the goods and services tax (GST) council is mulling a 28 per cent tax on cry ...
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Madurai MP, Su Venkatesan urged the Union government to exempt Sungudi saris from the ambit of the Goods and Service Tax (GST).He was speaking after i ...
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Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has urged businesses to file on time various tax return forms falling due in the next few days as p ...
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The government may expand the indirect tax net over cryptocurrencies to cover the entire gamut of activities, including their usage for exchanging goo ...
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A survey released by traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) said while e-commerce is a potential mode of business activity, mandatory ...
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All dues to the states as per the GST formulation have been settled and only dues for the months of February and March of 2022, of about Rs.78,000 cro ...
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Generation of e-way bills, which are needed to ship goods within and across states, eased a notch in April, suggesting that Goods and Services Tax (GS ...
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The Commercial Tax Department raided the residence and office of a GST tax auditor in Davangere and Bengaluru and busted a Input Tax Credit (ITC) scam ...
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Saddled with a debt of Rs 3 lakh crore it inherited from the previous regime, Punjab’s Aam Aadmi Party government is staring at a financial crisis ...

The Union Food Ministry has suggested imposing a 5 percent GST on de-oiled rice bran to discourage use of the product for feed purpose, Food Secretary ...
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The record collection from the goods and services tax (GST) of Rs 1.68 trillion has raised hopes that finally the near five-year-old indirect tax regi ...
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AAAR said accommodation service and other services including naturopathy rendered during the course of said service is covered under composite service ...
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The cess levied on aerated drinks, cigarettes and cars is set to become a bargaining chip in Centre-state talks on GST compensation, with the Centre o ...
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The classification of a cold drink will determine the goods and services tax (GST) levy, which is a component of the final price paid by you – the con ...
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The applicant contended that drinks prepared from juice concentrates and other ingredients, including water, sugar, flavours, etc., and processed by h ...
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If the Centre does not extend the GST compensation from July this year, Maharashtra, which pays the maximum taxes, will lose Rs 30,000 crore annually, ...
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Citing high inflation, the Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India appealed to the GST Council to rationalise the GST rates for the h ...
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Farmers have sought removal of GST on agriculture-related implements including fertilizers to help reduce the input cost besides appointment of agricu ...
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Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said a dozen states that have not reduced VAT on jet fuel are being nudged to lower levies, and backe ...

The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has decided to bear the GST burden on swimming pool fees. This which means citizens desirous of using the swimmi ...
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The Delhi High Court bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain has held that every provisional attachment order ceases to have effect af ...
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The Tamil Nadu Bench of the Authority for Advance Ruling, consisting of members T.G. Venkatesh and K. Latha, has ruled that GST is liable to be paid i ...
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The court observed that the order blocking the ITC was bereft of any reasons, and there was no question of any reflection of the authority passing the ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has introduced the facility of restoration of cancelled registration under Goods and Services T ...
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Individuals who had provided services to clients outside India and were paid in cryptocurrencies are rushing to their tax advisors seeking clarity ove ...
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The Gujarat high court ordered an officer of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) to remain present in court on Thursday morning and bring along a tax cons ...
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Taxing insurance premiums at 18 per cent at a time when insurance penetration in the country is merely 4.2 per cent is, perhaps, not the best way forw ...
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The government is working to bring cryptocurrencies under the ambit of Goods & Services Tax (GST) in order to tax the entire value of transactions ...
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The Coram of Sri Dr. M. P. Ravi Prasad, Member (State) and Sri. T. Kiran Reddy, Member (Central) based on the above observations held that “the applic ...
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The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has ensured the footwear sector that it will reach out to the government to discuss on rationalisation o ...
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Two people were arrested for alleged irregularities to the tune of nearly Rs 200 crore in connection with Goods and Services Tax payments, an official ...
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The Maharashtra legislature on Monday passed a Bill to provide for settlement of arrears of tax, interest, penalty or late fee that were payable under ...
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A panel of state ministers set up to suggest changes to the GST rate structure may propose a single 15% levy by merging the 12% and 18% slabs, but is ...
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The government is working on classifying cryptocurrency as goods or services under the GST law so that tax can be levied on the entire value of transa ...
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Farmers’ unions from across the country have urged the Centre to remove GST on agri produce, fertilizers, pesticide and drip irrigation equipment, and ...
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As crude oil prices continue to soar, IndiGo's full-time Director and Chief Executive Officer Ronojoy Dutta urged the Central government to bring the ...
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It can happen only in India that a pizza is taxed at three different rates and where a pizza topping is different from a pizza, as decreed two days ag ...
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The Union government has not yet paid GST dues of Rs 26,000 crore to Maharashtra and if the state gets this money it would be very helpful, Minister o ...
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The Life Insurance Agents’ Federation of India has appealed to Basavaraj S. Bommai, Chief Minister of Karnataka, who is also Leader of the Ministerial ...
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Over Rs 53,600 crore of GST compensation for the current fiscal is yet to be released to the states, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the R ...
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Anant Shah, a resident of Ahmedabad, was arrested by officials of state goods and services tax (SGST) department, for evasion of taxes of Rs 63 cr ...

Many states have requested extension of the compensation mechanism under the GST beyond June 2022, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.Under the ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been slashed from 18 percent to five percent on domestic maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for the ...
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The Confederation of All India Traders ( CAIT) has raised an issue that the mandatory requirement of GST number for sellers on e-commerce platform blo ...
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Assessees have got some relief as only jurisdictional tax officers would now be able to adjudicate notices issued under the goods and services tax (GS ...
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A delegation of the Chandigarh Beopar Mandal (CBM) attended the first meeting of the Grievances Redressal Committee of the Central GST.Charanjiv Singh ...
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Through extensive analysis of E-way bills, CGST Delhi East Commissionerate had busted a syndicate of five firms who were engaged in availing and utili ...
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Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai informed the Legislative Council that the Union Government is considering the request for extending the Goods and Serv ...
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The High Court of Karnataka has directed the Directorate of Goods and Services (GST) to refund Rs. 27.51 crore to M/s Bundl Technologies Pvt. Ltd., wh ...
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials have arrested director of a Mumbai-based chemical-trading company for alleged irregularities related to input t ...
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Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement of extending the GST Cess till 2026 is only limited to paying the pending amounts to states, cla ...
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Start-up industry body IndiaTech.Org has sought a review of GST on online transactions as it is adversely impacting small businesses and travel compan ...
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The Central Goods and Service Tax department and central excise have arrested a Malad businessman, Sachin Mehta, for allegedly fraudulently availing i ...
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GST authorities have expanded the probe into alleged tax evasion by fintech firm BharatPe to include reported issuance of fake invoices by those close ...
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Opposing the GST council’s reported proposal of increasing the minimum tax slab from 5 to 8%., the city businessmen have said that any hike in the goo ...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the GST compensation cess period has already been extended till March 2026 to enable the Centre to repa ...
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Mandatory electronic invoicing of business-to-business (B2B) transactions for companies with annual turnover above ₹20 crore will increase goods and s ...
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The Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DGGI) has widened its probe on BharatPe after its earlier investigation had found the ...
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The State Goods and Services Tax (GST) department has unearthed a scam involving turnover of Rs 315 crore in which bogus firms and fake invoices were ...
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A few states including Haryana, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal and Bihar may need GST compensation post-June FY23.The report furth ...
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The Gujarat high court has said that the GST officials cannot provisionally attach personal properties of a partner of a partnership firm without fina ...
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Chairman of Madhav Copper Ltd, Nilesh Natubhai Patel, an accused in the Rs 762-crore bogus billing scam of Bhavnagar, has been arrested by State Goods ...
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The Government said it has taken several steps to crack down on people indulging in generating fake GST invoices to take benefit of input tax credit.R ...
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Indian beedis are being exported to various countries, said officials at a panel discussion and therefore on the need to reduce the Goods and Services ...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 22 said that there is no adversarial relationship between the states and the Centre when it comes to m ...
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A coaching institute cannot deposit Goods & Services Tax (GST) on individual items basis for the supply of notebooks, t-shirts, bags, sweat shirts ...
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Industrialists dealing in steel, scrap and furnaces are sore over the lackadaisical approach of the government in controlling steel prices. As if it w ...
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The Telangana Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) has said in two rulings that seeds are not “agricultural produce” and should attract goods and service ...
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The government is likely to propose a formula to bring aviation turbine fuel (ATF) under the ambit of Goods and Services Tax (GST), CNBC TV18 reported ...
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Even though the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council had to drop a plan to hike the GST rates for most textile products in the man-made fibre (MMF) va ...
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Your dazzling smile comes at a price. Your dental bill, for services like teeth whitening or application of veneer (also known as smile-fixing treatme ...
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Changes proposed to input tax credit provision in the GST law are good in intent but may be harsh for recipients, said experts regarding the Finance B ...
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The Maharashtra State Goods and Services Tax Department on Friday arrested a director of a firm dealing in metal and scrap for accepting bogus invoice ...
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The GST Council may cut down tax exemptions, hike rates on selected items and cut down tax slabs to three from four slabs of 5%, 12%, 18%, and 28%.The ...
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Income earned from providing guest lectures will attract 18 per cent GST, the Karnataka bench of AAR has ruled.While passing the ruling, the AAR said ...
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The Centre will take a proposal to the Goods and Services Tax Council (GST Council) to levy GST on entities that provide a mining platform for cryptoc ...
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The Union government and states will implement a proposed structural revamp of the goods and services tax (GST) in phases, keeping in mind the impact ...
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials in Mumbai have arrested the proprietor of a firm engaged in metal scrap trade for allegedly making use of fraud ...
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The Finance Ministry has reconstituted the Group of Ministers to look into GST-related matters related to casinos, race course and online gaming. Howe ...
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Bombay High Court has held that adequate emphasis should be on not only ‘having reasons to believe’ to block Input Tax Credit (ITC) but also on ‘recor ...
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The Anti-Evasion wing of CGST (c), Mumbai South arrested the partner of a firm, Rushabh Bullion, a trader of gold and silver articles for availing fak ...
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The Central government is all set to use blockchain technology to curb fake billing and GST claims. In the first phase, the technology will be used fo ...
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Over 250,000 people in Delhi registered their new or existing businesses under the ambit of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from March 2020, when the ...
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Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax (GST) department arrested a couple from Gujarat's Surat on charges of GST evasion through fake Input Tax Credit (IT ...
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The second meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on GST System Reforms headed by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar h ...
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DMK Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi N.V.N. Somu said the Union government was turning a blind eye to the health insurance sector’s call for a GST rate cu ...
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The Karnataka High Court has held that an owner of a building can claim tax exemption under the Goods and Services Act (GST) if the residential premis ...
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The government is examining the applicability of goods and services tax (GST) on various crypto currency transactions including mining of these digita ...
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Revenue secretary said government is open to considering the restaurant industry's demand of shifting back to higher goods and services tax (GST) alon ...
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials have bust a tax credit racket and arrested the proprietor of a metal trading firm, the finance ministry said in ...
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During the Zero Hour discussion in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, BJP leader Sushil Modi raised the issue of crypto currencies. Notably, Finance Minister ...
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A BSE listed firm, Suumaya Corporation, has dragged the federal government and the oblique tax authorities to court over similar tax demands by the st ...
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CBIC chairman said that steps taken by the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council and by tax authorities at the central and state levels have doubled th ...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday requested the Centre to extend the GST compensation for a period up to 2024-25. Bommai presented t ...
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Chairman Vivek Johri said that Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) is set to scale up scrutiny and departmental audits of risky taxpaye ...
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In the matter of Jal Engineering (petitioner) invokes the extraordinary jurisdiction vested in this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of Ind ...
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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Centre would take forward the industry proposal for bringing jet fuel, a key input for the distressed air ...
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With the exponential growth of fantasy sports and the potential benefits to India's digital economy, a new whitepaper recommends providing tax certain ...
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Mr. Ayush Singh Advocate on behalf of Mr. Punit Singhvi, counsel for the revenue is that in cases where the registered seller is found to have obtaine ...
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The government will levy goods and services tax (GST) on the service fees on cryptocurrency transactions, not the digital asset’s gross value. However ...
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The collection of State GST in Odisha was Rs 1,143.14 crore in January 2022 against Rs 777.71 crore in the same month last year, registering an increa ...
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Central GST Commissionerate of Navi Mumbai on Wednesday arrested a proprietor of Navnit Steels for alleged fraudulent input tax credit (ITC). The comp ...
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If the Budgetary announcement of a 30 per cent tax on income from an asset with no legal status stumped the common man, cryptocurrency service pro ...

The tax evasion by the actors surfaced during the investigation against the distributor.Eight leading actors and a few film distributors of Malayalam ...
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CHENNAI Fishermen have urged the State authorities to supply diesel subsidy to new boats with out insisting upon GST payments for engines and boat ...

Power producing companies were left wanting as the Union Budget did not acknowledge their wish for including electricity under the purview of the ...
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The state Taxes and Excise has collected Rs 427.72 crores GST in the month of January as compared to Rs 346.30 crores in January last year, thus regis ...
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Maharashtra government on Tuesday slammed the Union Budget terming it a disappointment and raising the issue of non-payment of GST dues to the State a ...
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GST officers have arrested one person on charges of running multiple fake firms and having passed on fraudulently ITC worth Rs 491 crore.The Gurugram ...
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The Goods and Services Tax Network (“GSTN”) has issued an update w.r.t. GST Registration to be cancelled if Input Tax Credit (“ITC”) taken in GSTR-3B ...
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Goods and services tax (GST) collection topped Rs 1. 38 lakh crore in January, compared to Rs 1. 29 lakh crore in the previous month, providing furthe ...
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The government is considering setting in motion the creation of a Goods and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) for the expeditious resolution of i ...
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The GST department of the UP government has formed four flying squads to carry out surprise inspection of vehicles including transport vehicles and to ...
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The CGST and the Central Excise department have arrested bullion trader for alleged Input Tax Credit (ITC) fraud of Rs 20.8 crore.He is one of the dir ...
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The Indian government imposed an 18 per cent goods and services tax on smartphones in 2020, which upscaled the prices of handsets, making it costlier. ...
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At a time when opposition states are demanding extension of Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation by five years from the Central government, Madhy ...
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DGGI Ghaziabad officials have busted a bogus network of 275 firms involved in issuing fake invoices of more than Rs 3100 crore involving GST evasion o ...
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The All-India Handloom Rights Forum has appealed to the Central government to give exemption to handloom sector from the GST.Forum national president ...
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Maharashtra deputy chief minister and state finance minister on Wednesday urged the Union Government to extend the period of Goods and Services Tax (G ...
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GST authorities said an 'accountant' has been arrested for allegedly issuing bogus bills of ₹ 1,000 crore and committing an input tax credit (ITC) fra ...
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In a letter to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ahead of the Union Budget 2022-23, IndiaTech has proposed that goods and services tax be levied onl ...
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The Uttarakhand High Court has stayed the condition in the GST Circular relating to filing of refunds in chronological order. The petitioner has praye ...
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The government should bring natural gas under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime to realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for a gas-based ...
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With Covid pandemic nonetheless enjoying havoc within the nation, the insurance coverage sector is pushing for a discount within the GST on well being ...
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The government has detected evasion of Goods and Services Tax (GST), which also includes Central Excise and Service taxes prior to 2017, to the tune o ...
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Bhiwandi Commissionerate of CGST Mumbai Zone has arrested a businessman, who was running a fake GST Input Tax Credit racket.The ministry said "acting ...
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The government is engaged in a pitched legal battle in the Supreme Court against importers over its decision to levy Integrated Goods and Services Tax ...
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The Outbound Tour Operators Association of India (OTOAI) recently wrote to the honourable Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, ahead of the Budge ...
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The government presented to Parliament the Special Goods and Services Tax (SGST) Bill that is aimed at simplifying the existing tax structure.The Bill ...
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Despite advertisement tax merging in goods and services tax (GST), Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is still recovering it in the name of licence fe ...
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As the government prepares to announce the budget for 2022, the only major concern raised by most tech companies is the panel of 28 percent GST that i ...
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CBIC said tax officers cannot make any tax claim after the winding up order of a company is passed. The apex indirect taxes body Friday issued detaile ...
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Agrofood Chamber of Commerce and Industry has urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to impress upon the GST Council to exempt all essential food p ...
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday conducted a variable rate repo operation to infuse liquidity, instead of its usual variable rate reverse r ...
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Mumbai West CGST Commissionerate has busted a fake input tax credit (ITC) racket involving Rs 10.1 crore and arrested a businessman in the case. The b ...
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Importers of denatured ethyl alcohol, a raw material used in hand sanitisers and disinfectants, and a constituent used in Remdesivir, have approached ...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget on February 1, 2022. Micro, Small and Mid-size enterprises (MSMEs) are requesting th ...
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The Telangana Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that ITC can be availed on GST charged by contractor supplying service of works contract to the ...
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The Medical Technology Association of India (MTAI) has urged the government to reduce GST and customs duties on medical devices, cold chain units and ...
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The All India Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council (GJC) on Tuesday urged the government to reduce the rate of GST (goods and services tax) to 1.25 per ...
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M/S HARDIK TEXTILES Vs. State of Gujarat The petitioner is seeking to approach this Court being aggrieved by the fact that the eligible refund a ...
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Automobile dealers' body FADA has urged the government to reduce GST rates on two-wheelers to 18 per cent in order to generate demand in the segment.T ...
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Seeking reduction in import duty on components used for making mobile phones, the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) has said that if t ...
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CAIT made an appeal to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asking her to approach the GST Council to call for GST registration exemption for sma ...
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Tamil Nadu’s finance minister said several states would be hard pressed to manage their finances if the Centre did not extend Goods and Services Tax ( ...
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GST officers have arrested one person for operating a syndicate and issuing fake invoices of ₹ 4,521 crore for availing input tax credit (ITC) benefit ...
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Telecom operators want the government to refund input tax credit (ITC) of around Rs 35,000 crore, reduce levies and waive GST on licence fees and spec ...
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The newly elected body of the Karnatak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) plans to take several new steps, including setting up a special legal c ...
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The Advanced Analytics portal was launched by the Chief Tax Commissioner of Rajasthan at the headquarters in Jaipur. The portal has been developed by ...
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Auto components industry body ACMA on Tuesday said it has urged the government for a uniform GST rate of 18 per cent on all auto parts to curb the imp ...
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In a case pertaining to wrongful seizure of a consignment by State authorities citing non-compliance with the provisions of UP GST Act, a single judge ...
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Karnataka’ Authority for Advance Ruling (KAAR) said a sweet shop manufacturing and selling sweets and namkeen over the counter only will be required t ...
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Giving two hoots to Covid guidelines, members of the Shoe Association Atari Bazaar and Model House held a protest here out GST Bhawan on Monday, deman ...
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A 15-member team of Lucknow Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) searched residences of three tobacco dealers in Tanda area of Ambedkar Naga ...
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The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) has urged the government that all packaged (whether branded or unbranded) cereals and staples includ ...
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In a setback to manufacturers of tobacco and tobacco products, the High Court of Karnataka has upheld that laws that allow simultaneous levy of the Go ...
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Central GST officials arrested two businessman for availing and passing input tax credit worth Rs 70 crore through fictitious transactions.Mumbai CGST ...
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As per the changes in the GST law effective January 1, GST officers were allowed to directly initiate recovery action against those errant businesses ...
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The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) issued 158 show-cause notices for tax evasion, amounting to ₹9,359 crore in the six years to FY21, ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) on Sunday notified the Goods and Services Tax (GST) taxpayers to file the GSTR-7 Return for the ...
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Footwear manufacturers in the country are demanding reversal of the GST hike that came into effect from January 1, saying that higher rates will affec ...
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Upward revision in threshold limits for investment-based deductions from income and health insurance premium and incentive for information technology ...
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Accounting rule maker Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has asked the government to bring back the audit and certification provisions ...
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Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: Urging Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to withdraw proposed GST hike on textiles from 5 per cent to 12 per cent inste ...
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Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has started a new initiative of holding meetings with officials of state tax administrations across ...
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The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday urged the GST Council and the Union Finance Ministry to continue the GST compensation at least till June 30, 20 ...
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As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Union Budget for the financial year 2022-23 on 1st February, the Micro, Small & ...
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Footwear traders in Surat and Vadodara on Tuesday shut shops and joined the bandh called by All India Footwear Association against the Centre’s decisi ...
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A proposal to bring electricity under the goods and services tax (GST) regime may cause a fiscal hole of Rs 5,780 crore for both states and the Centre ...
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After the Goods and Services Tax Council deferred the increase in the GST rates for the textile and garment business, the local industrialists now wan ...
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Even as the indirect tax department initiated investigations against several crypto exchanges for escaping Good and Services Tax (GST) liability, it m ...
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The Goods & Services Tax (GST) department has penalised cryptocurrency exchange WazirX Rs 49.20 crore for evading legal taxes, officials said.The ...
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GST hike on textiles rolled back, local businessman are up in arms against the Central board of indirect taxes and customs (CBIC) once again, this tim ...
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Managing the finances of state will be a challenge for the Himachal Pradesh government from June 2022 onwards as the Centre would stop paying GST comp ...
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Ordering food from platforms including Swiggy and Zomato may soon become costly as they will have to deposit and pay tax on behalf of all restaurants ...
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Electricity minister V Senthil Balaji on Sunday clarified that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) wasn’t levied on the electricity consumption charges a ...
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Enforcement officials of the Delhi GST Department unearthed a Rs 347 crore fake GST billing scam on January 1, 2022. The total tax evasion in the chai ...
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December is the sixth month in a row when revenue from goods sold and services rendered stood at over ₹1 lakh croreGross Goods and Services Tax (GST) ...
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The Group of Ministers (GoM) on GST rate rationalisation is likely to submit its final report by February, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, ...
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Come January and the government is empowered to send its recovery officials to your premises to collect GST without notice, if your tax liability show ...
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The Centre is working to bring changes in the GST Act so that companies can utilise data stored with GST Network to increase their business. “We ...
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With effect from 01.01.2022 the e-commerce operators have been made liable to pay tax on services provided through them namely transport of passengers ...
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With effect from 01.01.2022 the GST Council decided to introduce GST rate changes from January 2022 in order to correct the inverted duty structure in ...
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The GSTR-1 return filing facility will be blocked if you have not submitted the return in FORM GSTR-3B for the previous two return periods. For exampl ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has notified that Rules related to Mandatory Aadhar authentication for GST Refund and Revocatio ...
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With effect from 01.01.2022, Section 16 of the CGST Act is amended wherein sub-section (2), after clause (a), the clause shall be inserted, namely “(a ...
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With effect from 01.01.2022, Section 75, in sub-section (12) is amended whereby an Explanation shall be inserted, namely “For the purposes of this sub ...
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With effect from 01.01.2022, Section 83, in sub-section (1) is amended, whereby a new sub-section shall be substituted, namely “(1) Where, after the i ...
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With effect from 01.01.2022, Section 107, in sub-section (6) is amended whereby the proviso shall be inserted, namely “Provided that no appeal shall b ...
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With effect from 01.01.2022, Section 107, in sub-section (6) is amended whereby the proviso shall be inserted, namely “Provided that no appeal shall b ...
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With effect from 01.01.2022, a new section for section 151 shall be substituted namely “Power to call for information: The Commissioner or an officer ...
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With effect from 01.01.2022, the proper officer detaining or seizing goods or conveyance shall issue a notice within seven days of such detention or s ...
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The Consortium of Indian Associations (CIA) has sought creating a separate Development Commissioner to and look after exclusive needs of micro enterpr ...
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Indian Consumer Price Index could rise as much as 150 basis points putting pressure on the central bank, if the GST council chooses to raise rates for ...
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The central government (CG) has decided to bring a dozen amendments to the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Act from 1 January, tightening the in ...
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Members of the Andhra Pradesh Footwear Manufacturers and Dealers’ Association took out a protest rally against increasing the Goods and Services Tax ( ...
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In a huge relief to businesses, the Calcutta High Court has ruled that taxpayers shouldn’t be denied the benefit of the input tax credit if one is abl ...
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The telecom department has asked the finance ministry to consider refunding input tax credits (ITC) that telcos have accumulated under the goods and s ...
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The Telangana government on Sunday appealed to the Centre to repeal the hike of 7 percent GST on textiles and cloth industries. Telangana Minister for ...
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They need to pay the entire tax liability in cash and will not get input tax credit, clarifies a Finance Ministry circularE-commerce operators (ECOs) ...
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An online panel discussion on “Fostering Inclusive E-Commerce Ecosystem in India” was hosted by CUTS International on Wednesday, where a whitepaper on ...
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Even as the central government aims to correct the inverted duty structure to give relief to the textile industry, manufacturers especially those of t ...
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India has lowered the goods and service tax on ethanol meant for blending with gasoline as it looks to curb dependence on imported fuels. The GST on t ...
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The Delhi High Court has issued notice on a petition moved by Uber India challenging the two notifications levying GST on auto rickshaw services booke ...
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Madurai MP Su Venkatesan made a representation to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to withdraw the 12% GST on Sungudi saris.Venkatesan said i ...
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After ice cream, papad and paratha, cheese balls is another food item that triggered the dispute of goods and services tax (GST ). The dispute has for ...
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The Punjab Pradesh Beopar Mandal (PPBM) has stated that the proposed hike in the GST rates will up the prices of cloth, garment and shoes from January ...
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The textile traders of Aligarh staged a protest against the Central government following the decision to hike the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on text ...
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After financing around ₹2.7 trillion of states’ GST compensation shortfall by way of debt and transferring proceeds of cess collected, the provisional ...
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At Kerala High Court, the GST Council asserted that petroleum products cannot be included in the ambit of GST. The council submitted an affidavit in t ...
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In a good news, the Ministry of Finance on Sunday announced new relaxations for the goods and services tax (GST) taxpayers. Taking to Twitter, the Min ...
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The Bangalore branch of the South India Regional Council Chartered Accountants of India hosted a two-day National Convention on Goods and Services Tax ...
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Amit Agarwal, Group Chief Finance Officer at India’s top textiles maker Raymond said the government’s decision to increase the goods and services tax ...
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The GST Council is likely to consider issues related to levy of GST on ice cream parlors in the next Council meeting, expected later this month. The C ...
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As part of the rate rationalisation exercise, the fitment committee of the goods and services tax (GST) has proposed raising the 5% slab to 7% and 18% ...
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A group of city businessmen affiliated with Bharitya Arthik Party (BAP) protested at New Delhi on Friday against the central government’s decision to ...
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With regular autorickshaws often demanding excess fare or refusing to ply, many commuters prefer relying on app-based auto aggregators like Ola, Uber, ...
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With the GST council expected to meet this month for its quarterly meeting, several paper and printing bodies have made representations to roll back t ...
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The officers of the Anti-evasion wing of Vizag Central GST (Govt. of India) have busted a fake invoice racket involving a network of companies and arr ...
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The Kerala Garments and Textile Dealers Welfare Association (KTGA) has demanded the immediate withdrawal of GST hike from 5 to 12 per cent for the tex ...
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A Parliamentary committee has recommended to the government to increase the subsidy on buying of private electric 3- and 4-wheelers as has been done f ...
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Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has urged all field officers to focus on revenue collection efforts and take all possible steps in ...
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Do not judge a book by its cover — this adage has obtained a whole new meaning. Given the Covid pandemic, home learning is the norm and picture books ...
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Anxiety among garment and textile sector businessmen is increasing by the day, as January 1, 2022—the date when GST on some of their raw materials and ...
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Tells GST Council that tax rates should be based on a proper study of impactAccording to a study by the Finance Ministry of Kerala, GST tax rate reduc ...
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With the economic activities picking up, Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collections in Karnataka rose by 51% in the first eight months of ...
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The Association of National Exchanges of Members of India (Anmi), on behalf of its 900 stock brokers, has written to the GST Council on rationalizing ...
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There is no recommendation under consideration of the GST Council to reduce Goods and Services Tax (GST) on health insurance premium, Minister of Stat ...
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E-commerce Operators (ECOs) in food delivery space like Swiggy and Zomato will not get input tax credit (ITC) under the new GST mechanism coming into ...
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In the 45th meeting of the GST Council held on September 17, 2021, the Council constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) Committee to examine matters rel ...
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A reply to an application made under the Right To Information (RTI) Act has revealed that of all the states in the country, Maharashtra has the highes ...
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All eyes are on chief minister Basavaraj Bommai as he heads a group of ministers on rate rationalisation in the hope that it will lower the Centre’s p ...
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Kendu leaf workers staged a rally at Lower PMG here protesting Goods and Services Tax (GST) on Kendu leaves. They have been demanding withdrawal of th ...
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Odisha recorded gross GST collection of Rs 4,136 crore in November, a 64% growth from Rs 2,528 crore collected in the same period last year.The collec ...
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Thane Central Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Commissionerate busted a fake GST Input Tax Credit racket worth Rs 12 crores and arrested one pers ...
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Apparel retailers, hit by rising cotton yarn and acrylic prices, said the upcoming hike in the goods and services tax (GST) on clothes and footwear co ...
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A division bench of Kerala High Court said it was not satisfied with the reasons pointed out by the Centre and the GST Council on why petroleum produc ...
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As business activities have returned to normal, tax collection has also started picking up. The gross goods and service tax (GST) collected in Novembe ...
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Gross GST revenue collected in November came in at Rs 1,31,526 crore. This was an improvement over the Rs 1.30 lakh crore collected in the month of Oc ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has since last November detected ₹38,000 crore of bogus claims from businesses for input tax cr ...
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To woo the business community, the Punjab Cabinet on Wednesday decided to exempt about 1.50 lakh cases from tax assessment for 2014-15 till 2017-18, a ...
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GST will be applicable on employee recoveries such as notice pay, group insurance and telephone bill, an Advance Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) has ...
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Nearly Rs 52,000 crore of GST compensation was due to the states as of September 2021, Parliament was informed on Monday.Giving details of Goods and S ...
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The South India Hosiery Manufacturers Association (Sihma) urged Centre to roll back the revised GST rate on apparel items.In a letter to the Union fin ...
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BSE-listed Suumaya Corp has dragged the Goods and Services Tax (GST) authorities to the Bombay High Court, arguing revenue officials don’t have the po ...
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The Chandigarh Beopar Mandal (CBM) has opposed the proposed increase of GST rates from 5 per cent to 12 per cent on fabrics and readymade garments and ...
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Items in category of 12 per cent rate should be reduced to 10 per cent and goods in the category of 18 per cent rate should be reduced to 15 per cent, ...
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Auto-rickshaw services provided through e-commerce platforms would attract 5 per cent GST from January 1, 2022. The Revenue Department under the Finan ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has asked field officers to help further improve November goods and service tax (GST) collectio ...
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Mumbai GST zone has detected tax evasion of Rs 265 crore by JSW Steel. GST authorities claim that JSW Steel had wrongly availed input tax credit of co ...
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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is likely to meet mobile phone and allied component makers again this week to discuss possible ...
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The Tamil Nadu Textile Merchants Association has said that the increase in GST on textiles and garments from 5% to 12% from January 1, next year would ...
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American fast food chain Subway has dragged the indirect tax department to court over allegedly forcing it to pay differential Goods and Services Tax ...
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Even as the government on Monday notified replacing the inverted tax structure on man-made fibre (MMF) textiles to a uniform rate of 12 per cent acros ...
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As part of the rate rationalisation exercise, the fitment committee of the goods and services tax (GST) has proposed raising the 5% slab to 7% and 18% ...
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The government’s reported proposal to hike GST on gold jewellery to five per cent from three per cent is set to derail the industry which is reboundin ...
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Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who heads the Group of Ministers on Goods and Services Tax (GST), chaired a meeting on rate rationalisation of taxes ...
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Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced discounted rates of GST on the home-made of Kashmir products, like carved wood products, ...
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The Central Goods and Services Tax Commissionerate (Ludhiana) has unearthed a racket involving fake input tax credit (ITC) and Goods and Services Tax ...
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The finance ministry has notified a uniform 12% GST rate on manmade fibre (MMF), yarn, fabrics and apparel, thereby addressing the inverted tax struct ...
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The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has unearthed tax evasion worth ₹960 crore in two instances involving clandestine supply of tobacco ...
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Charitable trusts are liable to pay 18% Goods and Services Tax (GST) on grants and non-philanthropic donations received by them, the Maharashtra AAR h ...
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Ice cream parlours are feeling the heat as GST Authorities in various States have started issuing summons since an October 6 clarification on a new sy ...
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The government should reduce the GST rates applicable on the food processing industry and also rationalise the rates applicable between packaged brand ...
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The Centre is planning to classify cryptocurrency exchanges as e-commerce platforms and levy a one percent tax collected at source on them under the g ...
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Guidelines issued to the tax officials for scrutiny of Goods and Services Tax (GST) returns in Kerala has thrown light on how the tax department is us ...
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In one of the biggest cases of money laundering unearthed in recent times, the Meerut zonal unit of the Directorate of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has ini ...
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Setting the stage for an overhaul of the multiple tax rates under the Goods and Services Tax regime, the government has tasked a group of ministers (G ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has failed to achieve its professed objectives and has badly hit the finances of States, including Kerala, Finance Mi ...
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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday urged the Centre to extend the compensation period of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) beyond 202 ...
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Goods and services tax authorities have started issuing notices to several companies, after uncovering a mismatch in tax credits using deep analytics ...
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The officials of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) Visakhapatnam arrested the mastermind in the Rs 31 crore fake input tax credit rac ...
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Union Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad said buoyancy in GST collection in October shows the Indian economy, adversely affected by the coron ...
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Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday that bringing petroleum products under the purview of GST will further redu ...
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It was reported last month that the government may consider a single tax rate for online gaming companies and will also ascertain whether goods and se ...
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Regulatory checks on fake invoicing, including those of services, need to be strengthened for better tax compliance, according to an update on indirec ...
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Companies that were asked to pay additional indirect taxes on certain imports have come under the taxman’s lens again for availing of input tax credit ...
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Insurance is a necessity in India in the absence of a social security net, but the government is taxing the sector heavily even as others in the finan ...
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The Kerala High Court on Monday asked the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council why petroleum products can’t come under the GST and directed it to file ...
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The GST Council is likely to meet by third week of December to decide on the inverted duty structure and also rationalisation of rates.“The GST counci ...
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Cryptos are likely to attract both income tax and GST.A comprehensive Bill on crypto will detail the taxation. The Bill is expected to be introduced i ...
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With economic activity stabilising, especially services, the government is hoping that monthly GST collections would stabilise around Rs 1.5 lakh cror ...
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The central government has released goods and service tax (GST) compensation of Rs 17,000 crore to states on Wednesday out of the designated cess kitt ...
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Gujarat Appellate Authority for Advance Rulings (GAAAR) has characterised ‘fryums’ as ‘papad’ thereby negating any attraction of GST on the food produ ...
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Treflo, a Bangalore-based SaaS startup, announced the launch of a 'free GST invoice app' for MSMEs.Treflo is rolling out the tool for free to reach ou ...
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections in Goa saw a marginal drop in October, falling to Rs 317 crore as against Rs 319 crore in September, but rema ...
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Some conglomerates, banks, and companies may face additional taxes under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on their intangibles, such as goodwill, bran ...
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Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collections in October (for sales in September) rose 23.7 per cent year-on-year to Rs 1,30,127 crore, the s ...
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Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday announced waiver of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on langar at the Devi Talab Mandir in Jalandha ...
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The GST council’s proposal to increase rates from 5% to 12% for garments across price categories will create greater stress on the already extended wo ...
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The Centre on Thursday released the balance Rs 44,000 crore to states as loan to compensate for shortfall in Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections, ...
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In two separate cases, the Anti Evasion cell of the Central Goods and Service Tax have arrested two businessmen, Mohammed Harish Khan, for allegedly a ...
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The textile and clothing industry has expressed concerns over the GST Council's proposed plan to implement the increase in GST rates on fabrics and ga ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs ( CBIC ) has notified that permanent transfer of IPRs attracts 18% GST. In exercise of the powers conf ...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the government's appeal and dismissed a Delhi High Court's May 2020 order that allowed Bharti Airtel to claim Rs ...
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The Centre on Thursday released the balance of Rs 44,000 crore to states as a loan to compensate for the GST shortfall, taking the total amount to Rs ...
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If you are looking at buying a power inverter to get a good night's sleep amidst frequent power cuts, be ready to shell out more as the government has ...
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Toys manufacturers are set to see higher tax liabilities after a ruling said that toys that have any form of light or sound should be treated as elect ...
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The Supreme Court recently asked the Narendra Modi government and the GST Council to set up the GST Appellate Tribunal, or GSTAT, without any further ...
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Giving reprieve to trade and industry of the state, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday announced the scrapping of 40,000 pendin ...
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The Gurugram Zonal Unit of Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has arrested three persons for running multiple fake firms and evading GST o ...
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Levy of 18% goods and services tax on ice-cream supplies with retro effect from July 2017 has led to a near meltdown for thousands of ice-cream parlou ...
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If September quarter results posted by large retailers and many banks mirrored a moderate but steady pick-up in consumption demand after the second wa ...
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Recently, the GST Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR), Tamil Nadu, has held that no input tax credit (ITC) would be available to the manufacturer who ...
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Diesel prices crossing Rs 100-mark in Tamil Nadu has left truck owners and fleet operators a worried lot and a large number of trucks in Namakkal dist ...
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This year, delegates will be paying Rs 1,180 as fee for registration for the 52nd International Film Festival of India (Iffi). While some have questio ...
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E-way bills in October are likely to surpass September levels with production picking up to meet rising demand during festive season, said experts. Th ...
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The right of GST refund would be independent to the process of investigation, ruled the Karnataka High Court in a petition filed by Bundl Technology, ...
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Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who heads the Group of Ministers (GoM) on IT issues in GST, chaired the first virtual meeting on Thursday. The GoM a ...
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The GST Authority for Advance Rulings (Maharashtra) has recently rejected an application as it was not filed by the supplier of goods or services, but ...
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Several real estate developers have reached out to the government for clarity and concessions on the issue of double GST payment in redevelopment proj ...
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With a unified goods and service tax (GST) rate on textile products set to kick in from January 1, 2022, Gujarat-based textile industry fears that syn ...
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The Greater Noida Authority will soon initiate a drive to recover the pending goods and services tax (GST) from its allottees. Authority officials, ho ...
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Erode District Small Industries Association (EEDISSIA) has urged the Central government to reduce the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on plastic raw mate ...
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Canteen charges collected from employees will now be outside the gamut of goods and services tax following a tax ruling that offers some relief to sev ...
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The government may consider a single tax rate for online gaming as two different rates of 18% and 28%—based on whether they are games of skill or chan ...
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Daily e-way bill generation for goods transportation under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system came in at 21.14 lakh for the week ended October 17 ...
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Cloud kitchens are restaurants, ice cream parlours are not. Alcoholic beverage is not food or a food products. Mineral rights are taxable but the ques ...
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The government is considering easing goods and services tax (GST) rules for re-export of leased planes, in what would offer a major boost to airline f ...
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Highlighting that around 800 GST officers don’t have any specific responsibility and power, Andhra Pradesh GST Officers’ and Employees’ Association ha ...
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The enthusiasm to add fruit juice to carbonated drinks has come back to haunt regional drinks makers, as these products are currently subject to a GST ...
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The Centre will stick to its borrowing programme for FY22 and will not tap the market for more funds to meet the GST compensation shortfall for states ...
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Since the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST), Ahmedabad and Surat have become the hubs for bogus billing in Gujarat, while the web of ille ...
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Is a wellness centre a hotel or healthcare facility? And should the services offered at these places - weight reduction, ayurvedic treatment or yoga - ...
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The proposal to fix a uniform GST slab of 12% for the garments sector, if it goes through, will hit the ‘already battered’ industry and may lead to jo ...
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The Central Goods and Service Tax and Central Excise have arrested two businessmen and their chartered accountant who defrauded the GST department by ...
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The Supreme Court has stayed the imposition of GST on royalty paid mining rights given to a petitioner.GST at the rate of 18 per cent is imposed on ro ...
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The officers of Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Commissionerate, Delhi East, carried out the detailed analysis and unearthed a network of fictit ...
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GST Network on Tuesday said it has blocked Rs 14,000 crore worth of input tax credit (ITC) of 66,000 businesses registered under GST.Responding to soc ...
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The West Bengal Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that GST is payable on complete billing amount including employer portion of Employees’ Provid ...
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In a major development for the online gaming industry, casinos and racecourses operating in the country, the GST Secretariat has asked GST Council to ...
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The Orissa high court has ruled that deposits required to be submitted for appealing in a dispute under the goods and services tax (GST) has to be pai ...
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India may look at increasing tax on some goods and services in a step toward moving to a simpler structure with fewer rates, according to people famil ...
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The Railway Suppliers Association (Rasa) has urged Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to defer the recent decision to increase goods and servic ...
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Chief executive Industrialist wants GST on solar devices restored to 5%e officer of Selco Solar Lights Mohan Bhaskar Hegde on Friday regretted the rai ...
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A current ruling by the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) has held that GST could have to be paid on the merchandise which are being given off as fr ...
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The Group of Ministers (GoM) formed to rationalise GST rates and shore up revenue will meet soon, said the panel's chairman and Karnataka Chief Minist ...
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Goa received Rs 213 crore from the Centre as compensation for GST shortfall, as part of the Rs 40,000 crore released to various states under the Centr ...
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Disputes may arise over goods and services tax (GST) rates on cattle feed made from residual products of the alcohol industry, mineral rights, UPS inv ...
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The central government on Thursday released an amount of Rs. 40,000 crore to states and union territories (UTs) with legislature under the back-to-bac ...
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Unlike food cooked and served at restaurants, ice creams sold at parlours are manufactured items and are therefore taxable at 18%, the finance ministr ...
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In a sign of sustained improvement in business sentiment, Punjab has reported a robust growth in the goods and services tax (GST) collection in the fi ...
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Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), the company that processes GST returns, has said the provision for blocking generation of electronic goods tran ...
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The Calcutta High Court has ruled that goods and service tax registration cannot be cancelled if business was not carried out from the premises, due t ...
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Kerala is yet to receive Rs 4,466.89 crore as Goods and Services Tax compensation since the 2017-18 fiscal. This was revealed by finance minister K N ...
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The next few meetings of the GST Council would take the country's new indirect tax regime closer to the goal of providing a transparent tax system wit ...
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E-way bill generation for goods transportation under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system came in at 6.79 crore September, the highest since the st ...
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The Himachal Pradesh Corrugated Box Manufacturers have opposed the move of the GST council to increase the rate from 12 to 18 per cent on corrugated b ...
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A Delhi court pulled up SGST (state GST) and CGST (central GST) officials for allegedly trying to blame each other instead of initiating an appropriat ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council at the 45th meeting has recommended increasing GST rates on licensing services/ the right to broadcast and sh ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) notified that the 5% GST payable on Bio-diesel supplied to Oil Marketing Companies for blending ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) notified that the Reverse Charge Mechanism is applicable on supply of mentha oil by unregistere ...
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India’s solar power tariffs are expected to go up by around 10 paise per unit with a higher goods and services tax (GST) to be levied on cells, module ...
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Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) has submitted a representation to the Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman requesting ...
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The AAR Gujarat bench has recently held that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities under the Companies (CSR Policy) Rules are excluded from ...
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GST levy on annuity payments of BOT-HAM projects will have limited impact on project cash flows, domestic rating agency Icra on Wednesday."With NHAI r ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has informed about the implementation of recommendation of 45th GST Council Meeting and said th ...
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Tamil Nadu Finance Minister on Wednesday said the States’ fears of losing autonomy with the Goods and Services Tax regime have come true.“One thing th ...
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A think tank has requested the GST Council to levy a higher tax of 18 per cent on tetra pack, arguing that the product is incorrectly categorised in t ...
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The textile and clothing industry has sought a uniform 5% Goods and Services Tax (GST) across the textile value chain.Ravi Sam, chairman of the Southe ...
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The Centre will be borrowing Rs 5.03 trillion from the market in the second half, unchanged from what it had planned, but including the goods and serv ...
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India has set up a group of ministers to look into the rate rationalisation under the goods and services tax including the current slab structure.The ...
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Setting the stage for an overhaul of the multiple tax rates under the Goods and Services Tax regime, the government has tasked a group of ministers (G ...
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The Maharashtra Authority of Advance Rulings has said purified or treated sewage water for industrial use will be charged goods and service tax at 18% ...
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In the 45th meeting of GST Council in Lucknow early this month, the members had decided to make Aadhaar authentication mandatory for claiming GST refu ...
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The Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council is mulling whether to gradually increase the average GST rate to closer to the revenue-neutral rate of 15 perc ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has asked field offices to draw up an action plan so that no case of GST evasion is pending inv ...
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In clear signs of recovery for the Covid-battered economy, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection in Delhi this financial year (till September 20 ...
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Karnataka will renew its efforts to convince the Centre to continue granting compensation for the loss of revenue due to implementation of Goods and S ...
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Petrol prices in the country are not coming down as the states do not want to bring fuel under the ambit of the Goods and Services Tax or GST, Petrole ...
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Kamal Chopra, president of All India Federation of Master Printers said that while on the one side printers are happy that their long-standing demand ...
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As some taxpayers faced difficulties in filing GST return on Monday, the tax department on Tuesday said the IT grievance redressal committee would con ...
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The Himachal Pradesh Steel Industries Association has demanded rationalisation of the Goods and Service Tax ( GST) on metal scrap from 18 per cent to ...
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Daily e-way bill generation for goods transportation under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system came in at 22.71 lakh for the week ended September ...
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Certain clarifications by the GST Council, such as tax rates on ice cream parlours and royalty paid to state governments over mineral rights, may turn ...
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The Himachal Pradesh government has requested the Centre that the GST Council should consider reducing the rate of GST from 18% to 5% by adding a spec ...
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The government has said services outsourced to India and those provided domestically for foreign entities will not be treated as intermediary services ...
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A rule change cleared by the federal indirect tax body, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, last week shows the government’s intention to restri ...
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Businesses that default on filing summary return and paying monthly GST will not be able to file GSTR-1 sales return of the succeeding month from Janu ...
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Two clarifications issued by the GST Council on Friday are expected to provide major relief to businesses - captives of overseas companies in India th ...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday stated that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council discussed the topic of inclusion of petrol and dies ...
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Friday decided to extend compensation cess till March 2026 for repaying loans. "Detailed financial statements ...
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The GST Council has given an exemption on expensive imported drugs such as Zolgensma and Viltepso, which cost crores of rupees, Union Finance Minister ...
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The new compensation formula “revenue loss” by states from next July has driven a wedge between the Centre and Oppositionruled states even before the ...
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After keeping petroleum products out of GST for four years, the Centre is now seeking a timeline for its inclusion into the new tax regime — a move th ...
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Maharashtra is likely to oppose any attempt to bring petroleum products under the ambit of GST, state's Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Aji ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council expected to decide whether to treat back-office services BPO companies provide to foreign clients as exports ...
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When the all-powerful GST Council meets in Lucknow on Friday, the Centre will present options for a compensation formula for states from next July, wh ...
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The goods and services tax (GST) fitment panel has specified the size of container to distinguish between edible coconut oil and hair oil.The fitment ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, which will meet in Lucknow on Friday, is likely to discuss bringing petrol, diesel and other petroleum produ ...
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Three persons including a CA have been arrested on charges of creating and operating multiple fictitious firms on forged documents and passing large a ...
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Food delivery services are likely to get expensive as the GST Council will discuss the proposal to consider food delivery apps such as Swiggy and Zoma ...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday informed the members of NITI Aayog that the State was awaiting GST reimbursement worth ₹30,000 ...
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A meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Friday will decide the fate of the National Anti-profiteering Authority (NAA), whose tenure e ...
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The Centre is looking to initiate a discussion on correcting the anomalies in the structure and revenue augmentation, along with a proposal to revise ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council that will meet in Lucknow next week may discuss bringing one or more petroleum products—petrol, diesel, natur ...
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The Supreme Court (SC) has asked the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council to take note of anomalies in the present act and look into the assessment fo ...
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`Daily e-way bill generation for goods transportation under the goods and services tax (GST) system came in at 20.57 lakh for the week ended September ...
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The Goods and Services Tax Council meeting on Friday, the first physical meeting in more than 20 months, will deliberate on levying the Covid cess on ...
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The 45th GST Council Meet will be held on September 17 in Lucknow, CNBC-TV18 reported. This will be the first physical meet of the GST Council since t ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council may consider reducing the tax rate on steel scrap from the current 18 per cent at its upcoming meeting, which ...
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Flat or villa owners paying more than ₹7,500 a month to their resident welfare associations towards maintenance charges will now have to pay Goods and ...
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Sources privy to the development said that based on the Petroleum Ministry's suggestion, the Centre may take up with GST Council the issue of bringing ...
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The Goods and Service Tax (GST) Mazagon office has registered a case of cheating of around Rs 2.22 crore at the Byculla police station, after a person ...
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GST compensation has turned out to be a significant portion of many states’ overall revenue receipts over the recent years. Such compensation was mean ...
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With goods and services tax (GST) officers under pressure to exceed the Rs 1-trillion collection mark per month, industry has faced a barrage of recov ...
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The debate on the goods and service tax rates on roti or paratha refuses to subside.The Gujarat Authority on Advance Rulings has said GST at 18% is ch ...
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There is a piece of information for the GST taxpayers. The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has notified to file the GSTR-7 Return f ...
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Businessmen in the city are unhappy over restrictions imposed by the government. The regulation of blocking e-way bill generation for non-filers of GS ...
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Daily e-way bill generation for goods transportation under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system came in at 20.97 lakh in the first five days of Sep ...
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The Supreme Court on Monday said the government had no option but to constitute the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Appellate Tribunal.The tribunal has n ...
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Industries have raised red flags over fresh notices being issued denying input tax credit (ITC), alleging wrongful claims, in turn leading to hardship ...
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Stating that there has been a steep fall in revenue due to the Covid pandemic, Special Chief Secretary (Revenue) Rajat Bhargava has stressed the need ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is likely to consider a ministerial group’s report on introducing a differentiated regime for sectors where t ...
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The Gauhati High Court refused to grant the Bail to the Tax Consultant for allegedly collecting fake invoices, and E-way bills to wrongfully avail I ...
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The Kerala High Court ruled that the E-Way Bill is not required for transportation of ‘Used Personal Vehicle’. The Respondents, VST, and Sons have fil ...
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The upcoming Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council meeting is unlikely to provide tax relief to automobile sector, which has been explicitly vocal about ...
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The government may not need to open special borrowing window to meet GST compensation needs of states in the current financial year as rising indirect ...
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The GST Enforcement Wing in the state has unearthed a racket which used fake bills worth around Rs 1819 crore to claim input tax credit. Input tax cre ...
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The Centre has preferred a writ appeal before the Madras High Court against a single judge's order that flat or villa owners paying more than Rs. 7,50 ...
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GST collections have crossed Rs. 1 lakh crore in eleven of the last 12 months, with the government attributing the trend to a rapid economic recovery ...
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The State GST (Goods and Services Tax) enforcement wing on Thursday arrested two persons on charges of passing on bogus input tax credit (ITC) worth R ...
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Goods and services tax collections dipped around 4% to Rs 1.12 lakh crore in August, compared to Rs 1.16 lakh crore in the previous month, but p ...
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The upcoming GST Council meeting on September 17 will focus on the extension of compensation cess as the Council may also look into duty inversion in ...
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Paresh Priyadarshi, a GST inspector, is currently on the run after severely injuring a complainant and hitting an ACB Cop with his car on ...
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Jharkhand is suffering huge annual revenue loss due to a reduction in Goods and Services Tax (GST) on coal, and favours extending the GST compensati ...
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The GST Portal is now accepting applications for revocation of canceled GST Registration.
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Multinational fast food and hotel chains and tech companies that operate through franchisee models in India have come under the taxman’s lens over the ...
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Ministry of Finance has extended the last date to avail of the late fee amnesty scheme under Goods and Services Act (GST), has now been extended to No ...
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The Maharashtra bench of the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) has held that hostel fees charged to students will not attract goods and services tax ...
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Businesses that have not filed GSTR-3B returns in the preceding two months will not be able to file details of outward supplies in GSTR-1 from Septe ...
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In accordance with Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax, dated October 15, 2020, taxpayers need to declare Harmonised System of Nomenclature (HSN) ...
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The automobile industry's demand for lowering of Goods and Services Tax or GST levied on certain categories of their products is not likely to find ...
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Amid fall in state revenue and GST collection in view of COVID-19 crisis, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai on Thursday demanded the Centr ...
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The Haryana government has decided to amend its rules and software to prevent people from claiming undue GST input tax credit (ITC) on the basis of bi ...
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Gurugram Zonal Unit (GZU) of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has incarcerated two more people for passing on a total fake input t ...
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In a rare face off, captains of the auto industry have hit out at the government for not walking the talk. At an industry event in the capital on Wedn ...
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In a relief to the World Economic Forum's, the Authority for Advance Ruling in Maharashtra has said that the forum’s liaison office in India i ...
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Daily e-way bill generation for goods transportation under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system came in at 20.7 lakh in the first 22 days of August ...
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To ease the burden on end-consumers, the government should reduce the goods and services tax on edible oils rather cutting import duty on them, a&nb ...
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No Gujarti Thali is complete without a papad, be it fried or roasted. Fortunately for consumers, as the GST burden is ulti ...
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Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in a plea filed by Association of DNB Doctors against the imposition of 18% GST on fee deposited by DNB Candidat ...
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Low-cost airline SpiceJet has been granted relief from the Punjab and Haryana High Court which has asked the GST department to consider and pass an or ...
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The GST Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR-Gujarat) has held that lassi, the fermented milk product, is exempt from goods and services tax (GST). The ...
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The Mumbai Zonal Unit of Directorate General of GST Intelligence has busted a major input tax credit (ITC) refund fraud case. GST Intelligence has cra ...
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Amid a raging row over the hefty taxes on petrol and diesel, NITI Aayog is learnt to have proposed a formula whereby the two motor fuels and electrici ...
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Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K.S. Alagiri on Friday said the Centre had let down Tamil Nadu by denying payout of its compensation du ...
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The Chandigarh Beopar Mandal (CBM) has suggested some measures for the simplification of GST procedures and rates.In a comprehensive memorandum sent t ...
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Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) scheme is neither efficient nor sustainable. Its stipulated goal is to remove embedded tax ...
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Punjab has recorded a considerable increase in tax collection as compared to the last fiscal.Following a dip in Covid-19 cases, automobile retail, rea ...
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Whether it is the manufacture of ghee or steel products, interpretation of provision related to Input Tax Credit (ITC) will not change.
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The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) may address the issue of sales tax collection mechanism on fertilizer industry by removing mismatch between the inp ...
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The Gujarat high court on Wednesday said that the state government should not keep the sword of PASA hanging over traders on issues pertaining to GST ...
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It may seem amusing but your good old car seat cover is not actually a "part" of the seat but an "accessory", at least, in the eyes of the tax departm ...
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A surge in commodity prices is aiding the exchequer by boosting the government’s revenue receipts from goods and services tax (GST), said experts.
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The GST Council may resume its meeting in person after a gap of almost 16 months and 5 meetings. The next meeting is scheduled to take place soon.GST ...
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After cryptocurrencies, the non-fungible token or NFT has attracted the taxman’s attention as any purchase of the blockchain digital file will attract ...
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Daily e-way bill generation for goods transportation under the goods and services tax (GST) system came in at 20.5 lakh in the week ended August 15, 5 ...
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Supply of drinking water to the public through mobile tankers or dispensers by a charitable organisation is taxable at 18 per cent under the GS ...
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A division bench of the Karnataka High Court has stayed the operation of the single bench order passed on June 2, by which it had declared Rule 31A(3) ...
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The Ministry of Textiles has notified the guidelines and continuation of the Scheme for Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies on Export (RoSC ...
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The Chhattisgarh High Court stayed the cancellation of
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Higher taxes on automotive sector have a negative impact and the government needs to look at the solution, Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj said.India ne ...
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In the year-long crackdown on tax evasion, the GST authorities have unearthed over Rs 35,000 crore of tax fraud committed by misuse of input tax credi ...
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It has been contended in the appeals that the single bench ought to have considered the pre-GST regimeA Division Bench of the High Court of Karnataka ...
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Attention GST taxpayers! There is an important update for the GST taxpayers who have opted for the Quarterly Return Monthly Payment Scheme (QRMP) sc ...
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Thanks to the evasion of Goods and Services Tax (GST) by wrongfully claiming input tax credit (ITC), the state exchequer in Gujarat lost Rs171 crore i ...
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Expanding the scope of taxation, the tax department will now levy GST on the supply of e-vouchers thereby bringing even exclusive marketing companie ...
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The next meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council will consider pruning the list of tax-exempt items and fixing the anomaly of raw material ...
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The regulation of blocking e-way bill generation for the non-filers of GST returns is set to resume from August 15. The assessees defaulting on the ou ...
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Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST), Bhiwandi commissionerate on Wednesday arrested Hiten Sheth, proprietor of Mahir Life Care for fraudulently avail ...
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The next meeting of the all-powerful Goods and Service Tax Council is likely to be convened in the last week of August or the first week of September. ...
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Cost of diesel incurred as part of a composite service will attract GST even though the fuel itself has not been included under the new indirect tax ...
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Realtors' body Credai on Tuesday demanded that input tax credit (ITC) under the GST regime should be allowed to developers, saying this could lead t ...
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The government has achieved 26.6 per cent of the budget estimates for GST collections in the first three months of the current fiscal, Parliament was ...
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime has undoubtedly simplified tax compliance for businesses by saving time and energy in paying various central and s ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) department has started a campaign in Dehradun to increase the tax collection and verify the businesses that fail to r ...
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Ready-to-cook dosa, idli, porridge mix, etc sold in powdered form are taxable at 18 per cent, even though the GST rate is 5 percent if they are sold a ...
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Traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) in a communication sent on Sunday to Chief Ministers of all states highlighted the issue of “c ...
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The taxman has been dished a mind-bending problem, thanks to a point on semantics raised by Odisha’s Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling (AAAR). GS ...
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Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the Centre for not constituting an appellate tribunal under the CGST Act even after 4 years of the Act having come i ...
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Puducherry chief minister N Rangasamy has urged the Union government to extend GST compensation period, which ends on July 1, 2022, or to release addi ...
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Haryana deputy chief minister, Dushyant Chautala said on Friday that the Excise and Taxation department will be kept updated with modern technology in ...
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Taxpayers who have not filed GST returns for two months or quarters up to June 2021 will not be able to generate e-way bills from August 15, GST Netwo ...
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The Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) department , Ranchi, has unearthed an alleged ₹300 crore scam wherein firms, mainly from Chhattisgarh and Od ...
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The state government fears that the state's tax revenues would deteriorate once the five-year guaranteed GST compensation ends in June 2022.Even thoug ...
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Industry chamber PHDCCI on Wednesday called for a 3-tier GST rate structure, with the highest slab at 18 per cent, to help boost consumption and reduc ...
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The Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DGGSTI) have arrested a Juhu businessman in an alleged Input Tax Credit (ITC) fraud of ...
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E-way bill generation for goods transportation under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system has came in at 6.42 crore in July, highest in four months ...
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GST officers have detected tax evasion of Rs 7,421 crore in the April-June period of the current fiscal, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. In a writ ...
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Questioning the inclusion of GST charges in the annual course fees of DNB candidates, the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA), along wi ...
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Coming out of the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chandigarh has registered a 23 per cent growth in gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection ...
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High cost of acquisition due to a variety of reasons, including higher GST than all other major countries, is slowing down car demand in the country a ...
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Industry chamber PHDCCI on Sunday urged the government to bring petroleum products in the ambit of goods and services tax (GST) soon, as high inflat ...
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The gross GST revenue collected in the month of July 2021 is Rs 1,16,393 crore of which Central GST (CGST) is Rs 22,197 crore, State GST (SGST) is Rs ...
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A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court comprising Justices U. Durga Prasad Rao and B. Krishna Mohan refused to entertain a Writ ...
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GST taxpayers with a turnover of over Rs 5 crore can now self-certify their annual return, instead of a mandatory audit certification by chartered acc ...
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Treated and purified sewage water is classified as 'water' under the GST Act and its supply for industrial use would attract an 18 per cent tax, the A ...
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The Delhi Legislative Assembly, on the final day of its two-day monsoon session, passed the Delhi GST (Amendment) Bill 2021 and amendments to the ambi ...
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Prahlad Modi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's brother and vice-president of All-India Fair Price Shop Association, asked traders not to pay GST till th ...
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In connection with a case involving more than Rs 1,000 crore of fake GST (Goods and Services Tax) bills in Bhavnagar, the Gujarat government on Friday ...
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Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) K V Subramanian on Thursday said that rationalisation of GST rate structure is on the government’s agenda and it is defin ...
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GST officers of Andhra Pradesh and the Central governments met here on Thursday to discuss ways to plug revenue leak through coordinated efforts and i ...
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The Kerala High Court directed the central government and chairman, Goods and Service Tax Council, New Delhi to file a statement within three weeks, i ...
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Exclusive data on fund release to states (as of March 21) under the special borrowing scheme reveals that Telangana had received less compensation amo ...
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The state has suffered financial loss for last three years along with other states as the Union finance ministry short-credited to GST Compensation Ce ...
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In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said that as per the provision of Central Goods and Services ...
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“Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Intelligence (DGGI) has initiated investigations into tenders awarded by Indian Railways since Ju ...
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The central GST department of Ghaziabad has arrested two persons in connection with issuance of fake GST invoices without actual supply of goods. Acco ...
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The Centre is not inclined towards extending the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Compensation period for States beyond March 2022, however, a proposal fo ...
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Average daily e-way bill generation was 20.2 lakh in the week ended July 25, compared with 20.4 lakh in preceding week and 19.24 lakh in the first 11 ...
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The Telangana Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that 18% GST is payable on Unburnt or Half-Burnt coal and Dust. The applicant, M/s. Jeevaka Indu ...
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The Civil Aviation Ministry has formally asked the Finance Ministry to bring ATF under the ambit of GST at an applicable rate not higher than 12% with ...
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The Gujarat High Court held that medical store run by a charitable trust is a ‘business’ even if medicines are sold at lower prices and hence it req ...
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The Civil Aviation Ministry has formally asked the Finance Ministry to bring ATF under the ambit of GST at an applicable rate not higher than 12% with ...
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The Gujarat High Court held that medical store run by a charitable trust is a ‘business’ even if medicines are sold at lower prices and hence it requi ...
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The Kerala High Court ruled that the discrimination in terms of time limit to allow availment of the Input Tax Credit (ITC) is arbitrary and unreasona ...
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A PIL in the Supreme Court has sought directions to the Centre for setting up of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal, as mandated under the ...
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Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), Guwahati Zonal Unit unearthed a Rs 338 Crore racket of fake invoicing in which fake credit of Input ta ...
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The Centre has begun a comprehensive review of the goods and services tax (GST) law, as well as various rules pertaining to the levy, to provide clari ...
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The Delhi High Court while refusing to grant the refund held that the suppliers passed on fake Input Tax Credit (ITC) for which the taxpayer claims re ...
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Private Coaching Institute imparting education to students facilitating them to obtain qualifications like Chartered Accountancy (CA), Cost Accountanc ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Tax and Customs (CBIC) issued the clarification extension of limitation under GST Law in terms of the Supreme Court’s Or ...
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The central government, during the ongoing monsoon session of the Lok Sabha, accepted that it is yet to release Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensat ...
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The Centre Government waived the duties and GST on a drug required for the treatment of a 2-year-old girl, KS Mithrra born with a rare genetic disorde ...
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The Rajasthan High Court allowed the refund of Integrated Goods and Service Tax (IGST) on Ocean Freights.The division bench of Justice Vinit Kumar Mat ...
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The government’s tendering process is all set to come under the goods and services tax (GST) umbrella after a tax ruling has said it constitutes suppl ...
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The Centre on Thursday released ₹4,122.27 crore to the State as GST (Goods and Services Tax) compensation dues through a special borrowing arrangement ...
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Kerala’a Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling has upheld that additional discount reimbursed by a company to its distributor will be added to the co ...
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The finance ministry released Rs 75,000 crore or nearly half of the total Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation shortfall for FY22 to the states a ...
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The Maharashtra Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that the Input Tax Credit (ITC) is not allowable on Food and Beverages consumed in Industrial ...
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In a relief to resident welfare association (RWA) members across middle and high-end housing societies, the Madras High Court has ruled that the goods ...
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A special Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council meeting is likely to be held in later part of August after the monsoon session of Parliament concludes o ...
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To help the pandemic-hit Kannada film industry, the state government has proposed to reimburse its share of GST on movie tickets that were sold during ...
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on July 13, urged the central government to set up an AIIMS in the state as well as provide pending GST dues wo ...
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In the year-long crackdown on tax evasion, the GST authorities have unearthed over Rs 35,000 crore of tax fraud committed by misuse of input tax credi ...
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The Kerala bench of the GST Authority for Advance Rulings (GST-AAR) has held that such products would attract tax at 12%, even if unbranded.The applic ...
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The GST-AAR, Kerala bench, has held that GST at 18% will apply on houseboat cruises, be it day trips or overnight trips. This ruling was sought by EVM ...
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Houseboats sailing languidly in the backwaters are icons of Kerala’s tourism sector. In its recent ruling, the GST-Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) ...
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Tamil Nadu’s finance minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan is of the view that the GST model is ‘overly centralised’ and suffers from both design and execut ...
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The Kerala Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that 12% GST on Chips, Sharkarai varatty, Roasted and Salted Cashew nuts and Namkeens.The coram of ...
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GST officers have busted a network of 23 entities involved in creation of fake invoices worth Rs 551 crore and passing inadmissible input tax credit w ...
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For hotels and restaurants, a higher GST on environment-friendly and biodegradable material is the biggest stumbling block to using cutlery made of ba ...
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The firms were selected for searches by using data analytics and 360 degree profiling on the instructions of commissioner cum secretary, commercial ta ...
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Foremost on the GST Council’s agenda should be to take up the long-pending demand of industry to bring petroleum products and electricity under GST. D ...
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Online food delivery platform Swiggy has to pay a Rs 20,000 fine for charging Rs 4.50 GST on a soft drink.But Swiggy claimed that it was only an inter ...
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During the COVID-19 induced restrictions, Karnataka recorded a marginal increase of ₹371.52 crore in the collection of Goods and Service Tax (GST) in ...
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Several infrastructure companies that are building highways have come under the tax department’s scrutiny for misinterpretation of the word “annuity” ...
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Tax authorities have started tracking Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on commercial vehicles to detect Goods and Services Tax (GST) evasion ...
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Goods and services tax (GST) authorities have started detecting instances of tax evasion by identifying mismatches between electronic permits issued f ...
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A petition has been filed before the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking directions not to levy the goods and services tax (GST) on royalty/dead ren ...
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GST Amnesty Scheme: If you have not filed the GST Return yet, the government is going to impose a heavy penalty on you. However, before this, the gove ...
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The Ministry of Finance last month sought states' consent to borrow back-to-back-loans to plug the shortfall in goods and services tax cess collection ...
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Amazon Business customers, which are largely MSMEs, will now be able to claim GST credit for orders delivered across India with GST registration in on ...
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The Central government owes Rs 30,352 crore to Maharashtra towards the GST compensation, state Finance Minister Ajit Pawar told the Legislative Counci ...
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In a sign of revival in the city economy hit by COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown, the Delhi government collected Rs 5,281 crore GST ...
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Some 300 International Service Entities (ISEs) including search engines and e-commerce companies which provide services to Indian customers, have not ...
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With the Indian government mulling over new laws to regulate cryptocurrencies in the country, the indirect tax department is looking into whether over ...
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The Goods and Service Tax (GST) collection has increased by 7 per cent in June this year, compared to the revenue in the same month last year, a spoke ...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the GST has been a milestone in the economic landscape of India as it has decreased the number of ...
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The finance ministry on Wednesday said it will issue certificates of appreciation to over 54,000 GST payers for timely filing of returns and cash paym ...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has reduced the rate at which people have to pay tax ...
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Industry bodies are set to raise several issues with the government related to goods and services tax (GST) compliances, legislation and administratio ...
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The Goods and Service Tax Network (GSTN) enabled the Functionality to register complaints on misuse of PAN in GST Registration. The GSTN with the obje ...
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Ahead of GST Day on July 1, industry body PHD Chamber of Commerce has raised the issue of blocking input tax credit and said the buyer should be allow ...
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An Odisha government agency working under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) directorate on Monday unearthed a racket that issued fake invoices to the t ...
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Haryana chief minister, Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday accorded approval for the notification related to the reduction of GST rates of goods and servic ...
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The coram of Rachna Singh and Vidhya Sagar observed that that the Department of the welfare of sc and BC, Haryana implements three types of schemes i. ...
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Following the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council decision to cut rates on Covid-related medicines, oxygen concentrators and testing kits, the state ...
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The domestic private equity industry is keen that the government ensures a level-playing field between the locally set up PE funds and those establish ...
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The Orissa High Court has directed an auto-rickshaw driver to file a reply to a show cause notice issued to him for payment of tax or penalty by the S ...
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The demand for hand sanitisers remains high in the country after sales jumped last year during the first wave of Covid-19. As sanitiser sales remain h ...
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With petrol prices breaching the three-digit mark in many parts of the country, the Kerala High Court has asked the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Counc ...
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Officers of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), Visakhapatnam seized Rs 1.7 crore (in Rs 2,000 denominations) from a locker of a priva ...
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The National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA) directs GST officers to collect evidence against suppliers denying GST Rate Cut benefits to the Recipie ...
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In a major blow to contractors, the government has clarified that the annual deferred payments, called annuity, received by them for construction of r ...
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After falling to a one-year low in May, digital means (e-way) invoice technology underneath the products and companies tax (GST) regime gathered momen ...
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West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra wrote to his central counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman again on June 23, seeking a course correction by the Goods ...
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The Kerala High Court has asked the Goods and Services Council to take a decision on a representation seeking to bring petroleum products under the GS ...
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Unpaid goods and service tax (GST) shortfall compensation to states stood at Rs 74,398 crore for FY21, West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra said on ...
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The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) bust a network of 16 firms after conducting searches at multiple premises in Punjab, Himachal Prade ...
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The tax department has held back the export benefits of many companies that have three-way contracts, or tripartite agreements, with multinationals, s ...
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From cigarettes to luxury cars, yachts to personal planes, may continue to attract additional levies for at least another three years as the central g ...
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The Kerala high court has asked the central government to decide on a representation seeking to bring petroleum products under goods and services tax ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) issued the clarification on the applicability of the Dynamic Quick Response (QR) Code on B2C in ...
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The anti-evasion wing of the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Commissionerate seized ₹40 lakh from hosiery trader Yogesh Jain’s house in Kalyan N ...
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Maruti Suzuki has announced a reduction on the ex-showroom price of the Eeco Ambulance. Recently, the Ministry of Finance slashed the GST rates on the ...
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Trade organisations in Madurai have urged the local ministers to provide relief in terms of rectifying the drawbacks of the GST system in the ensuing ...
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The state GST (SGST) collection is likely to be affected in June as retail, tourism and hospitality industries have been severely hit because of the l ...
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Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has written to state Chief Minister Pramod Sawant urging him to withdraw additional COVID cess on Goods an ...
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A circular issued by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) today clarified taxability of various services supplied by Centre and Stat ...
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The central government has released Rs 21,000 crore as goods and services tax compensation to states this week, two people familiar with the matter to ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) Tuesday notified 5 per cent GST on 18 Covid related relief materials including oxygen concentra ...
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India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collections are likely to stage a recovery from July after falling in May and June, official data on e-wa ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes (CBIC) has reduced the GST rate to 5% which will be leviable on construction services of structure for funeral, bu ...
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After registering dissent over the GST Council decisions on Covid-related materials, West Bengal Finance Minister, Amit Mitra,on Monday said that the ...
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The coram of T.Ramnani and P.Vinitha Sekhar ruled that service of operating mini AC buses by the applicant for Brihan Mumbai Electricity Supply Transp ...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced series of GST relief measures for Covid-19 relief essentials, including black fungus m ...
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Thiruvananthapuram: State goods and services tax department has invited options towards the tax amnesty scheme announced in the state budget.As per th ...
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Two weeks after Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, said that the same formula as last year will be adopted this year as well to pay GST compen ...
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After staging nationwide protests against fuel hike, Congress on Friday demanded a complete rollback of excise duty on fuel brought by the Modi govern ...
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The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has arrested a supplier of fake invoices and detected fraudulent transactions of Rs 55 crore, an of ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council will meet on June 12 to decide on extension of compensation cess beyond 2022 and tax exemption or reduction i ...
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Opposition-ruled states are likely to maintain their demand of zero rating of Covid-19 vaccines under the Goods and Services Tax despite the Centre ha ...
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While quashing the ex-parte order, the Patna High Court held that Input Tax Credit can not be denied for reasons of delay in filing of the respective ...
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The Orissa High Court has called upon appellate authorities to condone the delay in filing certified copy of the order appealed against along with app ...
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An eight-member group of ministers (GoM) set up to decide Goods and Services Tax reduction on Covid relief materias has recommended that the GST on va ...
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Opposition-ruled state governments are determined to drive a hard bargain in the special Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meet to be convened soon ...
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Gujarat government’s Goods & Service Tax (SGST) collections have gone up by over Rs 6,100 crore in the first five months of the current calendar y ...
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The GST Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR - Maharashtra bench) has held a liaison office, in Mumbai, of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (D ...
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In a major tax relief to turf clubs, the High Court of Karnataka has declared that the clubs are liable to pay GST only on the commission that they re ...
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The Group of Ministers (GoM), constituted by the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council last week to look into the tax rate on Covid vaccines and other e ...
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The recent GST Council meeting has heralded good news for landowners. By making it easier for landowners to avail goods and services tax credit, the c ...
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Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Thursday chaired the first meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) formed to examine GST concessions and exe ...
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Signalling what could be in store for the State in terms of collection of Goods and Service Tax (GST) for the month of May, when the State was in lock ...
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Despite attention from the government, there are many sectors that have suffered due to the GST applicability in a manner that has eroded their workin ...
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Punjab finance minister Manpreet Badal has written to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman demanding that the recommendations of the Goods and Se ...
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The Centre and states are set for intense negotiations over extending compensation to states for goods and services tax (GST) revenue shortfall beyond ...
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Chief Ministers of the Congress-ruled Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have questioned the Union government’s decision to not include Finance Ministers from ...
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In a clear indication of the economic hit of the lockdown-like restrictions in Maharashtra, state GST collections plummeted by 36.4% between April and ...
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The government on Monday said the deadline for filing monthly GSTR-1 returns for May has been extended by 15 days till June 26. The GST Council, chair ...
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The GST Council, which met last Friday, had many important issues before it but did not make a decision on many of them. These issues had been discuss ...
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On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, the public health groups along with doctors have urged the GST Council to increase compensation cess on all t ...
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The rationalisation of late fees for delayed filing of monthly GST returns will give relief to small businesses and add to the government revenue, acc ...
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Two important demands of the trade and industry were not discussed at the GST Council meeting on May 28, said AgroFood Chamber of Commerce and Industr ...
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The compensation amount promised by the Centre is estimated to be higher than the Rs 1.58 lakh crore projected by the Centre, and a special session of ...
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GST Council Meeting Highlights: The 43rd GST Council meet was held earlier today where the council decided to exempt certain covid-19 relief material ...
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Telangana State on Friday objected to the moves by the Union government to bring extra neutral alcohol under the purview of GST. Finance Minister T Ha ...
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A state ministerial panel will look into the possibility of levying GST in evasion-prone sectors like pan-masala, gutkha, and brick kilns on the basis ...
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When the GST Council meets after a gap of seven months on Friday, on its agenda are issues related to the economy but discussions will be on political ...
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Traders’ body CAIT on Thursday sought extension of the deadline for filing various GST returns till August as well as cut in tax rates for medical and ...
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With GST council meet coming up on May 28, hospitality industry is reaching out to the government to put forth their demands and hope for the support. ...
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Footwear and readymade garments may have higher rates of goods and services tax (GST) with the GST Council expected to take up correcting the inverted ...
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The shortfall in GST compensation payable to states in the current fiscal is estimated at Rs 2.69 lakh crore, of which Rs 1.58 lakh crore would have t ...
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In a move that is likely to provide a huge relief to small taxpayers and micro and small enterprises in the country amid the pandemic, the Goods and S ...
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The goods and services tax (GST) fitment panel, comprising officers from the Centre and some states, has recommended a short-term rate cut on four Cov ...
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In another setback to the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited (HCCBPL), a subsidiary of Coca Cola India, the Bombay High Court quashed its w ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Friday will discuss bringing in private financial technology companies to set up four more invoice generat ...
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A plan to merge goods and services tax (GST) slabs of 12% and 18% into a single rate that will apply to most goods is expected to get delayed, while t ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council will consider whether Covid-19 vaccines should be exempt from the levy at a meeting on Friday. The two option ...
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Covid impact on MSMEs: Even as the government had earlier this month offered taxpayers a late fee waiver for filing GSTR-3B monthly returns for March ...
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The state finance department’s commercial taxes & GST wing has claimed before the Orissa high court that the racket involved in mass fraud in the ...
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Witnessing a sharp decline in the GST revenue due to the pandemic and the following lockdown and disruptions in economic activities across the country ...
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The second covid-19 wave ravaging the Indian economy is set to have an impact on the central government's revenue collections as well. Sources tell ET ...
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The Delhi High Court on Friday held the Government’s imposition of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on oxygen concentrators imported for personal use as ‘ ...
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The supply of food items under government schemes to Industrial training institutes (ITI) will be treated at par with supply of mid-day meals to schoo ...
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Ahead of the GST Council meeting on May 28, associations representing the travel, tourism and hospitality industry have urged the government and the c ...
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GST officers have been armed with real-time data of commercial vehicle movement on highways with integration of the e-way bill (EWB) system with FASTa ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has rationalised GST refund provisions, including giving option to taxpayers to withdraw applic ...
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The relaxation in GST compliance timelines has left taxpayers puzzled as no extension has been granted beyond the May 20 due date for filing the GSTR- ...
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The Haryana government has allowed reimbursement of goods and service tax paid by companies, non-governmental organisations and individuals on purchas ...
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Fewer e-way bills have been generated in May so far, with the daily average falling to a one-year low, indicating a sharp slowdown in economic activit ...
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In view of the rising corona cases and the disruptions caused by it, the trade and industry organisations have demanded from the Union finance ministe ...
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According to a recent ruling by Tamil Nadu Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling (AAAR), any expenses made by employees of an Indian subsidiary of a ...
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When the Centre is almost sitting silently in terms of releasing nearly Rs 5,000 crore GST compensation, the Bengal government has played an active ro ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council will meet for the first time in seven months on May 28 to discuss key issues such as compensation to states a ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has launched a special drive to clear all pending GST refunds by month-end. The 15-day Goods an ...
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If the final product is exempted, the law denies the input credit and thereby cascading of taxes happen that results in the price being jacked up to c ...
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In a major relief to the Indian Oil Corporation, the CGST Commissioner allowed the CENVAT Credit on input services used for procurement of Crude Oil.“ ...
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Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK leader MK Stalin wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to remove the Goods and Service Tax (GST ...
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Rajasthan government has written to the Centre for waiving GST on Covid vaccines, but experts in the state said if tax was exempted, the vaccines will ...
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West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra has written to Union FM Nirmala Sitharaman to urgently convene a meeting of the GST Council and discuss the is ...
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Citing an increase in costs as a result of a change in the rate of Goods and Services Tax (GST), Azure Power Thirty Four, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
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The Madras High Court refused to grant bail to Bajan Lal Bishnoi alias Rohan, who was held under the GST Act for selling details of GST registration p ...
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An array of measures including reduction in GST rates, zero GST rate on critical raw materials, permitting GST-free imports as well as direct cash inc ...
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Federation of Industries Jammu (FoIJ) has requested the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Financial Commissioner Finance Department Arun Kumar Mehta ...
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The Students Federation of India (SFI) has knocked on the doors of the Apex Court seeking directions to provide Free COVID vaccination to all citizens ...
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There is one way with which you can easily do it, just by logging in to the GST portal. But if you are looking for an alternative, there is another op ...
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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said GST exemption to domestic supplies and commercial import of Covid drugs, vaccines and oxygen concen ...
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The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has issued module-wise new functionalities deployed on the GST Portal for taxpayers. Various new functionali ...
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Despite the economic slowdown due to Covid-19 pandemic, Odisha recorded the highest ever GST collection of Rs.3,849.48 crore in April this year as aga ...
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The Central government should review its resistance to exempting the Goods and Services Tax (GST) levied on oxygen concentrators imported for personal ...
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Noting that states have been asked to purchase vaccines from their resources for inoculating people between the ages of 18 and 45, chief minister Nave ...
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The Gujarat high court on Thursday likened the Goods & Service Tax (GST) officials’ seizure of a Rajkot businessman’s private vehicle to dacoity.T ...
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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to drop the GST charged on imports of oxygen concentrators for personal use, just as it has done fo ...
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Maharashtra collected a record Rs 22,012 crore worth of GST in April when the second wave of the pandemic escalated and the state went into lockdown-s ...
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Congress leader and Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Badal Wednesday demanded a GST Council meeting immediately for serious mid-term corrections on ta ...
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The Centre may call a meeting of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council within the next few weeks, with the agenda likely to be tax rates on items th ...
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In a crackdown against large-scale tax evasion, the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has recovered ₹ 74.86 crore from a prominent tobacc ...
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Central enforcement agencies such as customs have now proposed GST to be imposed on raw and processed human hair to curb illegal market and smuggling ...
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A PIL was filed in the Delhi HC seeking exemption on equipment and machinery related to set up oxygen plant at least for the period of 6 months or til ...
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In a relief for taxpayers amid the COVID-19 crisis, the central government has announced several relaxations regarding timelines for GST compliance no ...
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Oxygen concentrators received as gifts or ordered online from overseas would attract Goods and Services Tax (GST), but the GST rate payable was ...
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The Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling observed that in terms of lease agreement entered into between appellant and Rail Land Development Authorit ...
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections are likely to remain robust at about ₹1.15 lakh crore to ₹1.2 lakh crore in April, despite the spate of lockd ...
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A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking GST exemption for Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, Favipiravir and other COVID-19 related drugs with a simi ...
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The applicant has sought the advance ruling on the issue whether the amount collected as membership subscription fees paid by the members towards faci ...
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The government may waive Goods and Services Tax (GST) on Covid-19 vaccines to reduce their cost—up to ₹1,200 a dose in private hospitals starting May ...
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A recent Madras High Court ruling has come as a significant relief for genuine buyers under the Goods and Services Tax regime. ...
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The government has allowed businesses to verify through electronic verification code monthly GST returns filed till May 31.In a notification, the Cent ...
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Till recently we were reading about cases where revenue authorities were issuing notices to recipients when they were unable to trace fraudulent suppl ...
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The Goods and Service Tax Networks (GSTN) has now enabled the new feature on the GST portal wherein the taxpayers can now check their returns for the ...
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The single judge bench of C.Saravanan held that the petitioner has also not been able to utilize the credit of duty under the provisions of GST which ...
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All India Majlis e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi demanded the Union government to provide vaccination free of cost t ...
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Traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has urged the government to defer as many as 11 compliances under Goods and Services Tax (GST) ...
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The Kerala High Court granted anticipatory bail to the person accused of non-payment of GST to the tune of Rs 17.53 Crores and non-filing of GSTR 3B r ...
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The second wave of Covid-19 pandemic and possible lockdown-like restrictions in different parts of the state are likely to dent the government’s GST e ...
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Industry bodies have requested the Finance ministry to provide clarity, speed up applications and ultimately provide more handholding on a plethora of ...
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In the facts of the instant case, it was held that the order of provisional attachment did not indicate any basis for the formation of the opinion tha ...
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The coram of Dr. Ravi Prasad and Mashood Ur Rehman Farooqui ruled that the supply of books from the warehouse located in the USA (non-taxable territor ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has issued the advisory on the implementation of PMT-03 to re-credit the Input Tax Credit (ITC) ...
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The appellant sought the advance ruling on the issue of whether GST is leviable on the reimbursement of expenses from the subsidiary company to its ul ...
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In the matter of M/s K- Juice Grape marketed by Kalis Sparkling Water — will be subject to GST at 28%.As the AAAR held it to be a ‘Carbonated beverage ...
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The SC's ruling comes at a time when the government is showcasing the recent months' surge in GST collections as proof of effective anti-evasion steps ...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday arrested tainted former GST Assistant Commissioner Bollineni Srinivasa Gandhi in a disproportiona ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection of Nagpur Zone were severely impacted due to lockdown and temporary closure of business activity by the Go ...
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The government is working on a system to soon provide report to GST officers on a real-time basis for those vehicles which are moving without e-way bi ...
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The Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Intelligence (DGGI) has initiated an investigation into tenders awarded by the Indian Railways ...
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As the country grapples with a stronger second Covid wave, states want the Centre to urgently convene a meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Co ...
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Saying that a mini lockdown is a necessity to mitigate the severe COVID-19 situation in Maharashtra, CM Uddhav Thackeray has written to Prime Minister ...
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Goods and service tax (GST) collections could see a dip of 10-20% in May as Maharashtra - the largest state contributor to GST - and Madhya Pradesh en ...
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The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that the failure to produce necessary documents will lead to cancellation of registration for supply of goods. The ...
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The Karnataka Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that 18% GST is applicable on Parboiling Rice and Drying plant. The applicant, M/s SKF Boilers a ...
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The Karnataka Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that no GST is applicable on Rent received from Backward Classes Welfare Department. The applica ...
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In case you are buying physical gold, you also need to pay goods and services tax (GST).On gold jewellery, a GST of 3% is levied. The GST is charged o ...
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The Centre’s indirect tax collection rose by more than 12 per cent to Rs 10.71 trillion in 2020-21 (FY21) compared to Rs 9.54 trillion in the previous ...
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The Goods and Service Tax Network (GSTN) added new features in the GST Search Taxpayer tab at GST Portal. The two separate info namely Profile and Pla ...
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The petitioner received notice in which certain defects have been pointed out. The defect includes sales omission and purchase omission also. It was a ...
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Aadhaar authentication is a process by which the Aadhaar number along with other biometric details of the Aadhaar holder are submitted to the Central ...
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The Rajasthan High Court held that the scope of enquiry ends if goods in transit are in conformity with the documents under the GST Act. The High Cour ...
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The Federation of Trade Associations of Pune has approached the Goods and Services Tax council seeking an extension in filing of returns as their shop ...
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A Delhi Court on Saturday granted bail to a proprietor of a private company in connection with a case dealing with Central Goods and Services Tax (CGS ...
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The Central Government has released GST Compensation of Rs. 30,000 crore to States as part compensation admissible for FY 2020-21 on 27th March, 2021. ...
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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday urged the Centre to provide the required stock of COVID-19 vaccines for a week in advance and s ...
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The Supreme Court has upheld the views taken by various High Courts that the Goods and Services Tax Act does not affect the right of purchasers of goo ...
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The Orissa High Court directed the Commissioner GST to issue clear instructions to all the officers in the GST Commission rates in the state not to is ...
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Companies have argued against the constitutional validity of arrest provisions under the goods and services tax (GST) laws in their present form in th ...
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Corporate social responsibility expenditure is incurred by a company in order to comply with the requirements of the Companies Act, 2013. Thus, such e ...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed the manner in which the Goods and Services Tax was being enforced by tax authorities and observed that the taxman ...
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The Goods and Services Tax Network ( GSTN ) has issued Advisory on Auto-population of E-Invoice details into GSTR-1. For the month of March, 2021, the ...
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A detailed order was passed by the Court wherein the Court agreed with the submission of the petitioners, subject to respondent authority verifying as ...
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The rise in global crude prices after August 2020 has led to a rapid rise in fuel prices across the country, which has sparked a demand for including ...
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The applicant has sought the advance ruling on the issue whether the service of supply, erection, commissioning and installation of wastewater pretrea ...
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The UP bench of the Appellate Authority of Advance Rulings (AAAR) has held that the amount recovered from employees towards car parking charges, which ...
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The government has allowed further flexibility to tax filers operating under the Quarterly Return Filing and Monthly Payment of Taxes (QRMP) scheme of ...
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Clearing the air over taxability of gift cards or vouchers, the Tamil Nadu bench of the AAAR has ruled that GST would be levied on the underlying good ...
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The gross GST revenue collections including settlement for the financial year 2020-21 in Jammu and Kashmir stood at Rs 4,890.35 crore as against Rs 4, ...
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The Indian arms of IT-enabled services (ITeS) companies have been asked to pay GST on the services they provide to their parent or other group entitie ...
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Punjab received a financial boost from the goods and services tax (GST) during the financial year 2020-21, thanks to the highest-ever compensation and ...
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GST collections rose 27% to hit a record high of nearly Rs 1.24 lakh crore in March, helping to narrow the deficit for the full financial year to arou ...
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The Karnataka Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) has held that contributions collected from members of a co-operative housing society towards a sinki ...
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The Tamil Nadu appellate authority for advance rulings (AAAR) has cleared the confusion over taxability of vouchers such as Amazon gift cards, Shopper ...
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The Rajasthan Government notified the E-Way Bill limit to be Rs.1 Lakh with effect from 1 April, 2021. The government notified that where the movement ...
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Gujarat will agree to include petrol, diesel and natural gas under Goods and Services Tax (GST), only if the Government of India (GoI) evolves a mecha ...
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Businesses with turnover of more than Rs 5 crore will have to furnish six-digit HSN or tariff code on the invoices issued for supplies of taxable good ...
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Since income from whatever source derived is included in the Income Tax Act, 1961, and supply of any service, if not specifically exempted, is taxable ...
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The division bench of the Gujarat High Court held that Form GST DRC 07 shall be issued for recovery of interest under Sec.50 of the Central Good ...
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The petitioner had challenged the attachment of his bank accounts pursuant to the powers conferred by Section 83 of the CGST Act. During pendency of t ...
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials have unearthed a Delhi-based racket involving five companies and arrested one person as part of a drive against ...
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An important milestone went by recently largely unnoticed—the release of the 20th and final instalment of the estimated GST compensation shortfall of ...
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The smallest of MSMEs are being integrated into large SCF programmes run by the formal banking system, freeing them from the clutches of the high-cost ...
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Labour Minister Ch Malla Reddy on Friday accused the Central government of failing to waive GST on the beedi industry in the State. During the 17th, 1 ...
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A report tabled by India’s Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) before Parliament on Wednesday admonished the government for being slow in implementi ...
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Selling sweets and eatables is one thing and providing facility to consume them within the shop is a different thing from the point of view of the Goo ...
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Former Union Oil Minister and senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Thursday said “distortions” in the GST Act will have to be removed before the ...
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The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) deferred the Tax Audit Clause 30C and 44 till 31st Mar 2022 due to COVID-19. The CBDT has extended the ...
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BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday said it is not possible to bring petrol and diesel under the GST regime for the next eight to 10 years as it ...
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The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on Wednesday made a case for setting up a definite time-frame for roll out of simplified GST return ...
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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has recommended end-to-end computerisation of the show cause notices (SCN) and adjudication process for GST ...
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Amid outcry over high taxes on motor fuel, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said she would be "glad" to discuss the suggestion of bringi ...
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The main allegation against the applicant is that the four firms which are supplier’s firms of plastic scrap for both the firms of the applicant, are ...
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The petitioner, Bharatiya Vitta Salahkar Samiti referred to a judgment of the Madras High Court passed in the case of Revenue Bar Association vs. Unio ...
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The Gujarat High Court ruled that sometimes delay in Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) may frustrate investigation and also hinder the interest of the ...
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Finance Ministry has said that taxpayers are free to utilise Input Tax Credit available in their credit ledger as permissible by law to discharge thei ...
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The Court held that the petitioner did not receive any of the notices said to be sent by the respondent authority and therefore, they had no occasion ...
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The division bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and Talwant Singh directed the respondent authority to file their reply to the captioned application wit ...
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As the 20th March deadline for GST payments nears, GST authorities are pressurising taxpayers to pay their maximum tax liability in 'cash'. In G ...
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Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to reduce Goods and Service Tax (GST) on passenger veh ...
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Senior BJP leader Avinash Rai Khanna on Friday said the Centre is ready to bring petroleum products under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) purvi ...
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The Commissionerate of Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST), Pune II, has arrested a managing director (MD) of a private company in connection with a ...
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The government needs to make structural changes in the goods and services tax (GST) regime and step up compliance to boost revenues, given the need to ...
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The Uttar Pradesh Appellate Authority of Advance Ruling (AAAR) while upholding the AAR’s ruling held that 18% GST is applicable on Odomos.The Coram&nb ...
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The Uttar Pradesh Appellate Authority of Advance Ruling (AAAR) while upholding the AAR’s ruling held that no Input Tax Credit (ITC) can be claimed on ...
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The disputes between the business community and the GST department continues over the classification of different goods and services. And the reason i ...
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The Madras High Court has allowed assessees to claim input tax credit for tax deducted at source (TDS) pending from the value-added tax (VAT) regime u ...
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The department submitted that accused availed fraudulent ITC of Rs. 12,82,05,579 from various bogus firms and he accepted his fraud under section 70 o ...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought responses of the finance ministry, the GST Council and the CBIC on a PIL seeking a mechanism to levy GST on fo ...
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There is no proposal of faceless scrutiny assessment of GST returns as the Goods and Services Tax rule already provide for electronic filing and asses ...
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India needs to bring CNG under the GST regime and tackle challenges such as high vehicle cost and limited boot space for the growth of the natural gas ...
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The standing committee on finance sought that the government should initiate all possible structural and enforcement related measures to shore up good ...
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The practice among small businesses of issuing ‘kacha bills’ or informal sales invoices to under-report turnover is likely to become a thing of the pa ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), via its Twitter, handle clarified that Input Tax Credit ( ITC ) can be availed based on detail ...
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States may face a GST compensation shortfall of Rs 3 lakh crore in the next financial year, a situation that will force them to borrow more from the m ...
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The investigation wing of the Punjab State GST today arrested five persons for creating and operating a bogus billing network across various states, i ...
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Once the applicant is registered under GST, the need for amendments in registration may arise due to several factors such as a change in address, chan ...
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Goods and service tax (GST) authorities have asked field units to identify top taxpayers, find the defaulters and push them to pay more tax. Officers ...
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Four years after the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Act was enacted, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today expressed prime facie view that Pa ...
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The civil aviation ministry is working on the airline industry's demand to bring Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) under the ambit of GST and has taken up t ...
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Delhi minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government to bring petrol and diesel under the Goo ...
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The Gujarat High Court has come down heavily on the GST Authority stating that the habit of raising technical issues by the Authority is leading to ‘u ...
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Gurugram Zonal Unit (GZU) of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has arrested one Ravinder Kumar alias Ravinder Garg in connection with ...
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The accused, Praveen Jian has moved the second bail application. The accused has been transferred from the court of SCJM, Rohtak and all firms involve ...
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The petitioner, M/s Best Sellers (Cochin) Pvt. Ltd. was aggrieved by detention notice issued to him in Form GST MOV-7. In the Writ Petition, it is the ...
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For petrol and diesel to be brought under GST, the rates will have to very high, even higher than 100%. Only then will the governments be able to earn ...
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The GST Network (GSTN) has enabled a new feature that requires the taxpayer to select one core business activity on the GST Portal. Tax experts believ ...
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The Centre on Tuesday said it has released the 19th weekly installment of Rs 2,104 crore to states to compensate for shortfall in revenue on account o ...
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The revenue in March may cross the record Rs.1,19,875 crore collected in January by at least Rs.10,000 crore.India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) coll ...
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The government had made e-invoices mandatory for businesses with annual revenue of over Rs 50 crore from April 1, 2021.The GST e-invoicing system was ...
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The GSTN clarified that taxpayers may use the ‘Reset’ button to delete all the saved data for all the return periods, irrespective of the filing prefe ...
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The CBIC has directed its field offices to exercise utmost prudence and maximum caution in attachment of property of a taxpayer and said that such a r ...
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With all eyes set on the next GST Council meet, expected to take place later this month, the clamour for reducing GST on branded packaged snacks and c ...
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Today, if you open GST Portal you will see a new pop-up wherein you will have to identify your core business as either manufacturer or trader or servi ...
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The Centre is seen to earn an extra Rs 1.87 lakh crore in FY21 from the Rs 13-16/litre additional cess and surcharges imposed on auto fuels in March/M ...
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The Delhi Central Goods and Services Tax commissionerate has unearthed a massive network of fictitious firms created allegedly by two former Essel gro ...
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The soaring rates of petrol and diesel have led to calls from several quarters for reduction in excise duty so that commuters can get some much-needed ...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to issue directives on extending the Goods and Services Tax (GST) amnesty scheme, saying it was “a policy decis ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, the apex federal body on indirect taxation, will consider removing anomalies in the duty structure in severa ...
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The Ministry of Finance, while giving further clarification in respect of Special Cash Package equivalent in lieu of Leave Travel Concession (LTC)&nbs ...
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The Allahabad High Court will hear this week a petition filed by the Awadh Bar Association seeking the establishment of the State Bench of the Goods a ...
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In the ongoing drive to counter the menace of fake billing operators, information from analytics tool NETRA (Network Exploration Tool for Revenue Augm ...
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Gujarat is the only manufacturing state which registered a growth above 10%. Other manufacturing states where GST collection increased include Tamil N ...
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The government’s decision to do away with the mandatory Goods and Services Tax (GST) annual audit requirement by professionals such as chartered accou ...
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The February collection is 7.3% higher than ₹1,05,361 crore collected in the same month last year, the last month before businesses took a hit on acco ...
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The incessant fuel hike that has led to petrol and diesel prices crossing ₹100 per litre mark in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh is expected to impact th ...
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The State Government being of the opinion that it is expedient in the public interest, inserted Petroleum Crude in the Schedule VI appended to the Raj ...
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The government has extended the deadline for filing annual goods and service tax (GST) return and reconciliation statements for FY20 till March-end, f ...
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The Finance Ministry has cleared the air on interest on net tax liability with retrospective effect by proposing amendment in the GST law.The Finance ...
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Several clubs and large cooperative housing societies (CHS) that relied on the ‘principle of mutuality’ and did not levy and collect the goods and ser ...
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Tax authorities are auditing the country’s largest private hospitals to ascertain whether they should pay goods and services tax on food provided to a ...
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The Rajasthan High Court (HC) has quashed a clarification issued by the Union government that had allowed the authorities to impose goods and services ...
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Early indicators such as number of e-way bills generated in the first three weeks of February suggest that GST collections in February will be in exce ...
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In what could be seen as a step to incentivise the domestic shipping liners to participate in the strategic sale of the Shipping Corporation of India ...
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Nearly 40, 000 trade associations, representing eight crore traders of the country, has extended support to the Bharat bandh call by Confederation of ...
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Large resident welfare associations (RWAs) may have to face GST liability retrospectively subject to certain conditions. One particular provision rela ...
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Many exporters, who had been issued notices by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) for availing GST exemptions where exports preceded import ...
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is unlikely to take up rationalisation of tax slabs or tax rates in its next meeting, scheduled to be held in ...
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Amid an outcry over record high Petrol and diesel prices, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the Centre and state governments ...
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The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention on the issue of Goods ...

The Union Budget sets India in right direction where the government only facilitates businesses with minimum regulation, Union Finance Minister Nirmal ...
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Oil and gas stocks were in focus on Friday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the government is committed to bring natural gas Goods and Ser ...
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The Finance Ministry has cleared the air on interest on net tax liability with retrospective effect by proposing amendment in the GST law.The Finance ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) notified Rs.1000 as a fees for Handling of mismatch between Shipping Bill and GST returns in Cu ...
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The managing partner of a major fireworks manufacturing group of companies in Sivakasi was arrested for evasion of goods and services tax (GST) and ex ...
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The Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitaraman while presenting the Budget 2021-22 urged the provisional attachment of the assets of the individual who has h ...
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The government is working towards raising the share of natural gas in the energy basket to 15 per cent from the current 6.3 per cent and is committed ...
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Notification 94/2020 has put in place strict conditions, where non-compliance would result in the cancellation of GST registration. Taxpayers applying ...
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The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has enabled the functionality to furnish Letter of Undertaking (LUT) for Financial Year 2021-2022 on the GST ...
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The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has issued a list of GSTINs dated January 27, 2021, for whom e-invoicing shall be mandatory. There are 73308 GST ...
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Ahead of the cryptocurrency Bill, the government is likely to levy both income-tax (I-T) and goods and services tax (GST) on gains and trading of bitc ...
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Taking a lesson from farmers, traders have garnered enough numbers to force the government to the negotiating table to simplify Goods and Services Tax ...
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The appellant, Starbucks has been fined Rs 1.04 crore by the National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA) for not passing on good and services tax cut b ...
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As part of efforts to bring parity in taxation on agro-inputs, the Department of Chemical and Petrochemicals has approached the Finance Ministry for r ...
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The petitioner, Lupita Saluja sought anticipatory bail in relation to the enquiry/investigation being conducted by the respondent under Central Goods ...
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Thousands of GST non-filers, or those who did not file returns, have received an auto-generated letter from the authorities, asking them to file their ...
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In an interview , the finance minister said that the GST council would examine the recommendations of reducing four tax slabs to three.This has been a ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) notified the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for implementation of the provision of suspensi ...
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Chartered accountants'' apex body ICAI has initiated disciplinary action against 25 of its members for their alleged involvement in frauds related to ...
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The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has reintroduced the option to file Table 6A of Form GSTR-1 separately. The Table 6A of GSTR-1 needs export ...
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The Goods and Service Tax Network (GSTN) while giving a reply to the RTI application said that only 50% of Taxpayers have filed their GSTR-9 and 9C....
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The CA Institute has knocked the doors of the Prime Minister’s Office and the Finance Minister seeking a withdrawal of the Budget proposal to do away ...
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National Pension System (NPS) is one of the lowest cost pension schemes globally and it can be concluded that investing in NPS not only helps to reduc ...
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The Court was dealing with two appeals from the same consignor, Bon Cargos Private ltd. who is a Goods Transport Agency. In the first appeal goods det ...
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The finance minister, in the Budget speech, had promised that the new DFI would be professionally managed. This was interpreted by most observers to i ...
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The Central Goods and Services Tax department has unearthed a racket which was involved in GST evasion of over Rs 500 crore through 46 shell companies ...
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The petitioner, Hash Constructions challenged the appellate order passed by the Joint Commissioner (Appeals) under the Central Goods and Services Tax ...
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A recent decision under the tax regime for goods and services may increase the tax liability on failed land transactions.
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Calling goods and services tax (GST) as one of the most complex taxation system which has resulted into miseries of the traders, the Confederation of ...
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The central GST commissionerate, Ludhiana, has busted a nexus of 32 bogus firms that fraudulently claimed ₹65 crore as input tax credit (ITC) via fake ...
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The coram ruled that the applicant can not deduct the property taxes and other statutory levies for the purpose of arriving at the value of rental inc ...
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The Gujarat high court on Friday pulled up the GST officials for their alleged pressure tactics to achieve tax collection targets and made a sarcastic ...
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GST officers have arrested a chartered accountant on charges of collecting Rs 12.67 crore GST but not depositing it with the government, the finance m ...
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Central Goods and Service Tax Delhi South Commissionerate, on the basis of intelligence information, has arrested Mr. Prateek Jha, the director of M/s ...
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An Ahmedabad resident accused of GST fraud to the tune of Rs 45 crore was denied bail by the sessions court on Tuesday.
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India's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) to charge customers for failed ATM transactions due to insufficient balance. A transaction that is un ...
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W.e.f. 1st January, 2021, following two options are available to the Taxpayers who are under Quarterly Returns and Monthly Payment of Tax (QRMP) Schem ...
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Exporters are concerned about the proposed amendments in the integrated goods and services tax (IGST) in the Finance Bill that have taken away the fle ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Tax and Customs (CBIC) clarified the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Audit will be applicable for Financial Year 2019-20.&nb ...
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The Tax Professionals Body Bhartiya Vitta Salahakar Samiti (BVSS) in the press release suggest the government not to delete the provisions of “GST Aud ...
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"In this year, even though we have shown some improvement in the last few months, but for 14 per cent y-o-y GST revenue growth there will be a compens ...
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The tourism ministry has no plans to approach the GST Council for reducing the goods and services tax on all hotel rooms to 12 per cent, Union Tourism ...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in Budget 2021, announced multiple changes to the goods and services tax framework aimed at helping small and med ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) notified the effective rate of Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess for specified go ...
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The Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the Budget 2021 today before the Parliament, proposed to omit the requirement of furnis ...
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The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Budget Speech 2021-22 proposed the Provisional Attachment of Assets of those who are involved in the GS ...
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Rajasthan has sought extension of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation payable to the States by five more years, from June 2022 to June 2027, ...
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With the arrest of six persons, including the kingpin, Delhi Police's Cyber Crime Unit (CyPAD) has busted a Goods and Services Tax (GST) refund scam i ...
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The medical devices market in India, be it for parts or final products, attracts multiple rates. Uniformity in these rates will go a long way in bring ...
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Goods and services tax (GST) collections touched a new high of nearly Rs 1.2 lakh crore in January, indicating a sharp recovery post lockdown and bett ...
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Petrol and diesel are not the only sources of energy for which consumers are paying through their nose because of high taxes and different tax regimes ...
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IT hardware makers urge the government to allocate Rs 20,000 crore under the production-linked incentive scheme, to boost manufacturing of personal co ...
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Trade and tax professionals, such as chartered accountants (CAs) and company secretaries (CS) on Friday resorted to protests against frequent changes ...
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After clocking record collections in December 2020 at Rs 1.15 lakh crore, the January 2021 GST collection is expected to be in the range of Rs 1.21-1. ...
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Coronavirus pandemic has severely affected real estate sector. The demand for real estate properties has been subdued for several months in 2020. The ...
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The CA Institute has initiated disciplinary proceedings against the eight chartered accountants who have been arrested in the nationwide drive against ...
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In spite of the pandemic, Andhra Pradesh stood first in GST collection among the southern states for April to December, 2020. The state is in fact the ...
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The GST and Central Excise Department, Chennai Outer has arrested one person who is a Tax-Consultant, aged about 32 years, from Pernambut, Vellore Dis ...
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A bench of Gujarat High Court comprising Justices J B Pardiwala and I J Vora has issued notices to the Central government, the GST Council and the Att ...
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Companies that were importing a key raw material used in manufacturing sanitisers and disinfectants have dragged the government to court following ina ...
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The gem and jewellery industry has a lot expectation from the Modi government in the upcoming Union Budget 2021-22. The industry wants the Centre to r ...
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The Maharashtra AAAR while quashing the AAR’s ruling held that 28% GST on metal nuts as it is a part of motor vehicles.The applicant sought an advance ...
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A recent trade circular by the Maharashtra tax department has left taxpayers worried. The state has revoked the status of adoption of regulations issu ...
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A PIL has been filed before the Gujarat High Court seeking directions to GST Council, the Union government and the Central Board of Indirect Taxes for ...
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The Gujarat bench of the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) recently held that goods and services tax (GST) will be applicable to one-time maintenanc ...
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The Gujarat High Court directed the release of the amount of input tax credit (ITC) available in the credit ledger account. The writ applicant, Nipun ...
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Post implementation of GST, the GST Council has reduced GST rates umpteen number of times for various goods and services while simultaneously attempti ...
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Amit Mitra, the finance minister of West Bengal and the former head of the Empowered Committee of the state finance ministers on GST rollout, has urge ...
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In a significant ruling the Gujarat Authority for Advance Ruling for Goods and Services Tax (GST) has said a landlord does not have to pay GST on elec ...
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Indian Union Budget 2021-22: Given the gravity of this whole Covid-19 pandemic situation, there has been an increased awareness of the importance of h ...
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Technical glitch on GST portal for the fifth day in a row has left taxpayers worried amid fast approaching due dates for return filing, claimed tax ex ...
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The Tripura High Court disallowed the rectification of tax invoices as not covered under Section 161 of the CGST Act, and Limitation Act is not applic ...
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The Jharkhand High Court directed the GST Authority either to open a GSTN portal enabling the application for refund in GST RFD-01 or to manually acce ...
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Exporters have dragged the Revenue Intelligence (DRI), India’s primary anti-smuggling intelligence agency to various courts following notices over all ...
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The Indian Staffing Federation has asked the government to lower goods and services tax on staffing companies from the current 18% to 5% besides seeki ...
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Court censures practice of provisionally attaching bank accounts of firms before full probe into suspected irregularities or tax evasion Hearing a cas ...
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The Gujarat High Court issued the notices on plea challenging 5% Provisional Input Tax Credit (ITC) reflected in FORM GSTR-2B as per the 36(4) of GST ...
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The Orissa Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that GST under Reverse Charge Mechanism is not payable on receipt of services if it is not imported ...
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The Orissa Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that 18% GST on the construction of Director’s Bungalow and Staff Quarters for IIT, Bhubaneswar.&nb ...
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The Tripura High Court deleted the penalty equal to tax amount for E-way Bill Expiry and imposed Rs. 10000 penalty. The petitioner, M/s Sri Gopikrishn ...
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The assessee was carrying out canteen facilities through third party canteen services at its factory and providing food to its employees on subsidized ...
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Contracts with employees provide for furnishing a notice period, which typically ranges between one to three months.Many companies permit an employee ...
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The Central Goods and Services Tax ( CGST ) Delhi has arrested the Chartered Accountant for fraudulently passing on a fake Input Tax Credit ( ITC ) of ...
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The Gujarat Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that 18% GST on manufacturing and supply of ‘Fried Fryums’.The applicant, M/s. Shree Swaminarayan ...
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The Gujarat Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that 18% GST is applicable on “Supply, Testing and Commissioning of 160 TR Chilled Water Plant”. T ...
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The Gujarat Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that GST applicable on pathology or diagnostic services supply to the client who is a researcher. ...
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The Punjab One Time Settlement Scheme for Recovery of Outstanding Dues-2021 will be implemented from February 1 and the state exchequer would bear a f ...
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Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd gets show-cause notice for allegedly not paying taxes on the promotional and marketing amount it received from p ...
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The Gujarat Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that 18% GST on commission income from Japan in foreign currency on the Selling of machinery.  ...
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A investigation has been initiated against cab aggregators Uber and Ola by the Director General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DGGI), which h ...
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The Centre has released the 11th instalment of Rs 6,000 crore to states as a back-to-back loan to meet the compensation shortfall in collection of goo ...
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The Gujarat Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that GST payable on the common maintenance fund/ deposit collected from the members.
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The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) and the CGST Commissionerates have recovered more than Rs 700 crore and arrested 215 persons in the ...
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The Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR), Gujarat Bench held that 18% Goods and Service Tax (GST) applicable on supply of labour services.The applicant, ...
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The Gujarat Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) ruled that 5% GST applicable on Narrow Woven Fabrics of Polyester Yarn. The Applicant, M/s Rajivkumar Gi ...
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The taxpayers who opted for the QRMP scheme can avail the option of the IFF and furnish their details of outward supply on monthly basis for the ...
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The tax department has alleged that online food delivery giant Swiggy and Walmart backed Flipkart’s logistics arm Instakart relied on fake manpower su ...
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The government, acting upon the recommendations of the GST Council, issued Notification No. 94/2020 – Central Tax, which notifies the Central Goods an ...
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The Madras High Court has decided to hear a petition seeking exemption for members' club in an incorporated form, from levy/ payment of GST under the ...
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The Goods and Service Tax Network (GSTN) has made available the new Invoice Furnishing Facility (IFF) functionality on the Goods and Service Tax (GST) ...
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The due date for quarterly filing of Goods and Services Tax Returns for the third quarter of 2020 (the period between October and December) is January ...
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About two dozen Mumbai-based companies and businesses have come under the scanner of tax officials for possible violations of provisions related to go ...
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The Customs, Excises, and Service Taxes Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), Kolkata Bench held that no Service Tax is applicable on sizing operation activity ...
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The Madras High Court while granting the relief to AGS Cinemas, reiterated that the Online booking charges on tickets not subjected to Entertainment T ...
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The Union government, which is planning a major policy push to raise the share of natural gas in India’s energy mix from the current level of 6.2% to ...
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The Income Tax (I-T) Department Monday conducted surveys at the offices of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd and Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Ltd as ...
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The Central GST Delhi West Commissionerate has unearthed evasion of GST by way of manufacture and clandestine supply of gutkha/pan masala/tobacco prod ...
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Armed with data analytics and information from agencies, the government has launched a massive crackdown on GST evaders, initiating action against 7,0 ...
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection in December was the highest since the launch of the indirect tax regime on July 1, 2017, indicating that the e ...
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The Delhi Government notified the rate of interest for Late Form GSTR 3B filing. The Government amended the Notification No.13/2017–State Tax, dated t ...
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GST e-invoice system, the game-changer in the GST system, has completed a journey of three months and has facilitated the smooth transition of the tax ...
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The gross Goods and Services Tax collections touched a record high of over Rs 1.15 lakh crore in December — the highest since the implementation of th ...
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Even as the government has come out with a timeframe to process and give tax refunds under the indirect tax framework, many exporters complain of cont ...
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The Goods and Services Tax Network ( GSTN ) has issued the advisory on Auto-population of E-Invoice details into GSTR-1/2A/2B/4A/6A. Certain notified ...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested three Superintendents of GST & Central Excise, Bhubaneswar, and a private person(Accounts Officer ...
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In view of providing relief amid the COVID-19 crisis, the government has extended the due date for furnishing annual GST or goods and services tax ret ...
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Facing heat from GST officials for evading taxes on the pretext of adding fruit juice or pulp to their carbonated beverages, local soft drink companie ...
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The Gujarat High Court to hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the Chartered Accountant (CA) for the extension of due dates for filing For ...
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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) notified the Corrigendum for New Form GST REG-31 notified for ‘Intimation for suspension & ...
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The government is weighing a proposal to impose 18% goods and services tax (GST) on bitcoin transactions, estimated to be around Rs 40,000 crore annua ...
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Trading community on Sunday urged Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Goods and Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council to withdraw certain pro ...
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The new rule requiring businesses to pay at least 1 per cent of their GST liability in cash will not impact small businesses and dealers as only entit ...
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Tirumala Milk Products, a Bangalore-based company that sold flavoured milk in Karnataka failed to convince the Appellate bench of the GST Authority fo ...
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The Calcutta High Court presided over the requirement to reverse accumulated credit by on-going real estate projects opting for a concessional rate of ...
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