GST rates still leave room for pruning
Posted Date : 06-Aug-2018 , 12:28:28 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Centre has reportedly favoured a pause in further rate cuts on the goods and services tax (GST) due to the revenue shortfall, estimated at over Rs 40,000 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal. This is hasty, on two counts. The slew of changes that have periodically been brought about show th...
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GST Council meets in New Delhi today to discuss MSME Sector's suggestions and concerns
Posted Date : 04-Aug-2018 , 12:50:55 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is meeting in New Delhi today. The meeting, to be chaired by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, will discuss the concerns and suggestions of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, among other issues.
The 29th meeting of the Council is also likely to di...
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GST Council may replace 12% and 18% slabs with 14-15% tax rate
Posted Date : 04-Aug-2018 , 07:40:46 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Goods and Service Tax Council (GST) may replace 12 per cent and 18 per cent slabs with 14-15 per cent, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and GST Council member Sushil Modi said on Thursday. Modi added that the GST Council can think of bringing the petroleum products under the new tax regime only after...
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Amendments to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Laws
Posted Date : 03-Aug-2018 , 10:26:45 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Government has proposed around 46 Amendments to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) laws viz., the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 along with the respective State Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, Union Territory Goods and Services Tax...
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GST officers arrest 2 businessmen for Rs 201 crore tax evasion
Posted Date : 02-Aug-2018 , 07:27:25 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
GST officers have arrested two city based businessmen for evading taxes worth Rs 201 crore by fraudulently issuing invoices of Input Tax Credit (ITC) without actual supply of goods.
The Central GST Delhi West Commissionerate has arrested two Rohini-based businessmen in the plastic granule i...
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GST refunds worth Rs 54,378 crore cleared till July
Posted Date : 02-Aug-2018 , 12:34:02 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
GST refund claims of Rs 54,378 crore of exporters have been cleared by the Centre and state tax officials till July end, the finance ministry said today. As of July 31, 2018, the total amount of Integrated GST (IGST) refund claims disposed by CBIC is Rs 29,829 crore, taking the disposal rate to 93 p...
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Cabinet clears amendments to GST laws
Posted Date : 02-Aug-2018 , 09:11:43 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Cabinet gave approval to GST laws amendments today, which included hiking threshold limit for availing composition scheme dealers to Rs. 1.5 crore, among other things.
The government will now table amendments to the Central GST law, Integrated GST law, Compensation Cess law in the ongoing mon...
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Government Collects Rs 96483 Crore GST For June
Posted Date : 02-Aug-2018 , 03:18:05 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Total Gross GST Revenue collected in the month of July 2018 is Rs. 96,483 crore of which CGST is Rs. 15,877 crore, SGST is Rs. 22,293 crore, IGST is Rs. 49,951 crore (including Rs. 24,852 crore collected on imports) and Cess is Rs. 8,362 crore (including Rs. 794 crore collected on imports). This...
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Number of cases of Tax Evasion reported Post GST regime
Posted Date : 01-Aug-2018 , 08:56:56 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The number of cases of Tax Evasion reported post-GST regime are given in Table below:
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Draft format of the New GST Return
Posted Date : 30-Jul-2018 , 08:44:55 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
GST Council in its 27th meeting held on 4thMay, 2018 had approved the basic principles of GST return design. Now in its 28th meeting held on 21st July, 2018, GST Council approved the key features and new format of the GST returns. This brief note lists the salient features of the new return format a...
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Draft GST return forms to be released for public comments by Monday
Posted Date : 27-Jul-2018 , 09:06:37 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The drafts of new forms for filing GST return will be put in public domain by early next week for stakeholder consultation, a revenue official said today.
GST Commissioner Upender Gupta said in the new return filing system 'nil' filers, who don't have purchase or supplies in a q...
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National Anti-Profiteering Authority to Audit e-commerce companies
Posted Date : 24-Jul-2018 , 08:14:10 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Even before the GST came into effect on July 1, one of the stated objectives of the Central government was to eliminate multiple taxes and passes down the benefit to end consumers with a reduction in the prices of goods and services.
In an attempt to further reduce the burden of tax on end consum...
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Changes / Exemptions in GST Rates on Services
Posted Date : 21-Jul-2018 , 04:53:54 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The GST Council in its 28th meeting held here today under the Chairmanship of Shri Piyush Goyal , Union Minister for Railways , Coal , Finance & Corporate Affairs took following decisions relating to exemptions / changes in GST rates / ITC eligibility criteria, rationalization of rate...
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Recommendations made during the 28th GST Council Meeting held on 21st July 2018
Posted Date : 21-Jul-2018 , 04:46:08 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The GST Council in its 28thmeeting held here today has recommended certain amendments in the CGST Act, IGST Act, UTGST Act and the GST (Compensation to States) Act.
2. The major recommendations are as detailed below:
Upper limit of t...
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GST Council recommends GST rates reduction on several goods & for specified handicraft items
Posted Date : 21-Jul-2018 , 10:00:52 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The GST Council in its 28th meeting held here today under the Chairmanship of Shri Piyush Goyal , Union Minister for Railways , Coal , Finance & Corporate Affairs took following decisions on GST Rate on Goods .
GST rates reduction on 28% items:
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GST council approves Simplified GST Return
Posted Date : 21-Jul-2018 , 04:16:15 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The GST Council in its 28th meeting held here today under the Chairmanship of Shri PiyushGoyal , Union Minister for Railways , Coal , Finance & Corporate Affairs has approved the new return formats and associated changes in law. It may be recalled that in the 27thmeeting held on 4thof May, ...
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Recommendations on opening of migration window for tax payers till 31st August ,2018
Posted Date : 21-Jul-2018 , 04:14:43 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The GST Council in its 28th meeting held here today has approvedthe proposal to open the migration window for taxpayers, who received provisional IDs but could not complete the migration process.
The taxpayers who filedPart A of FORM GST REG-26, but not Part B of ...
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Govt slashes GST rate on several products
Posted Date : 21-Jul-2018 , 09:29:42 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Conceding a year long demand, sanitary pads today exempted from GST as the GST Council reduced tax rates on an array of daily use appliances and products.
While GST tax on sanitary pads was cut from 12 per cent to zero, rakhis were exempted from the tax, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal told reporte...
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National GST appellate tribunal on anvil, Council to decide on July 21
Posted Date : 20-Jul-2018 , 08:48:31 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The GST Council will consider setting up of a National Appellate Tribunal in Delhi with three regional benches with members from judiciary as well as tax departments to hear appeals against the order of the appellate authority set up by states under the GST regime.
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Grievance Redressal Officers for processing the complaints/information under e-way Bill System
Posted Date : 18-Jul-2018 , 05:17:57 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
As per the decision of the GST Council, e-way bill system has been rolled-out in a staggered manner across the country. E-way bills are getting generated successfully and till 17th July, 2018, more than Thirteen Crore and Fifty Lakh e-way bills have been generated which includes Six Crore ...
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CBIC to observe Third Refund Fortnight to clear pending GST refunds
Posted Date : 17-Jul-2018 , 08:57:28 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Refunds of GST have been a concern for the Government and Trade for the past several months. In this regard, the CBIC has observed two special drives cum refund fortnights in the Month of March, 2018 (15th to 31st March, 2018) and June, 2018 (31st May to 16th June, 2018) respectively. These re...
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Infosys to create new single page GST Return form
Posted Date : 16-Jul-2018 , 08:56:56 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The GSTN Group of Ministers (GoM) has asked Infosys to create a new tax return filing form in an effort to simplify I-T returns for businesses.
Addressing newspersons at the ninth GSTN GoM meeting, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said taxpayers who file 37 returns a year will file j...
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No GST on foreign companies' payments to liaison offices for expenses - AAR
Posted Date : 14-Jul-2018 , 08:13:46 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Foreign companies having liaison offices in India will not have to cough up goods and services(GST) on reimbursements of charges or expenses. A ruling by the Rajasthan Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) has held that payment of salaries of employees and other working expenses are not services and n...
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GST Council to discuss ease of filing returns, rate reduction on July 21
Posted Date : 12-Jul-2018 , 10:21:02 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The GST Council will discuss ease of filing returns, ease of assessment and may also consider further rationalisation of tax rates in its upcoming meeting on July 21, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.
He said the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council had been responsive to industry d...
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GST Council unveils draft of changes proposed to GST law
Posted Date : 11-Jul-2018 , 07:57:08 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
India has proposed a slew of changes to the year-old goods and services tax law, including an amendment to deny credit in lieu of accumulated balances of education cess, secondary and higher education cess, Krishi Kalyan cess, and additional excise duties levied on textile and textile articles. ...
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GST Council next meeting scheduled on July 21
Posted Date : 10-Jul-2018 , 07:29:44 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The next meeting of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council scheduled on July 21 is likely to endorse 3 per cent cess on sugar. In its last meet on June 4, the Council had constituted a Group of Ministers (GOM) and authorised it to take a final call on the matter.
The new sugar cess will be ov...
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Scrap reverse charge, defer sops for digital payments - GST GoMs
Posted Date : 09-Jul-2018 , 07:59:26 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
A group of ministers (GoM) led by Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Modi on Sunday decided to recommend to the GST council that a section in the GST Act concerning the reverse charge mechanism (RCM) be scrapped as “it discriminates against unregistered dealers while not adding much to the rev...
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Non-tariff charges in electricity bill to attract GST
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2018 , 08:01:43 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Electricity bills can have a goods and services tax (GST) component at times. Non-tariff charges, which include application fee for releasing connection, rentals charged against metering equipment and labour charges for shifting of meters and service lines, are liable to taxed at 18% under the GST.
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Govt likely to go slow on key anti-evasion measure under GST
Posted Date : 03-Jul-2018 , 08:35:33 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government is unlikely to insist on implementing the reverse charge mechanism, a key anti-evasion measure proposed under the goods and services tax (GST), on concerns that the rule will adversely impact small businesses while not yielding revenue gains.
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Government celebrates First GST Day
Posted Date : 01-Jul-2018 , 09:28:17 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Government of India celebrated the 1st GST Day here today. The event saw an address on the eventful 1styear journey of GST over a live video link by Union Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley. Union Minister for Railways, Coal, Finance & Corporate Affairs, Shri Piyush Goyal presided over as the Chie...
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