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COVID Relief Measures – Reduction in GST rate of specified items – Impact on Rate of Tax, ITC and MRP
Introduction
Coronavirus (COVID-19), a virus that grew stealthily from the end of 2019 has become one of the deadliest viruses that is killing people worldwide. The normal life in India was disrupted due to lockdown, restrictions on commutation etc. due to covid. It affected almost all the industries in India and the second wave of COVID-19 in India (during 2021) has an increased death rate comparing to the previous. Further, more than the infection from the disease, the financial burden...
Read moreRecent amendment to rule 21 of the CGST Rules - Side Effects of GST Revenue Shortfall – Industry to Face the Music
The Union expected better tax revenues with the introduction of GST. The States though were divided on this, with some of them expecting better revenues whereas the others expecting a fall due to the consumption-based accrual of revenue. However, with the introduction of GST, the revenues were not very encouraging and many reasons could be attributed to this, both controllable and inevitable reasons. The inevitable reasons could be the economic condition, pandemic situation, etc. The...
Read moreAll you need to know about QRMP Scheme under GST w.e.f. 01.01.2021
Introduction
Taking another step towards the goal of increasing “Ease of doing business” in India and providing relief to small taxpayers; the GST Council in their 42nd Meet on 5th October 2020 proposed a quarterly return filing system for small taxpayers to be implemented w.e.f. 1st January, 2021. QRMP or Quarterly Return Monthly Payment Scheme is an optional scheme that CBIC has rolled out for small scale businesses having aggregate turnover up to 5 crore rupees to furnish return on...
Read moreFundamental Reforms in GST Law Amendments- Budget 2021?
The retrospective amendments and their impact on the certainty of tax laws is one major factor for attracting investments to India. This was highlighted in the Vodafone Issue where Rs.22 thousand crores demand by the Income tax department was held to be inequitable unfair as per the DTAT as held by the International court. This has again happened now in the recent Cairn’s issue where the international courts have not favoured retrospective practice and awarded Rs.740 crores.
The...
Read moreRule 36(4) – Impact & Validity
Input Tax Credit (ITC) matching – GSTN- not ready- A thorny issue for the department and the assessees. It has been 3 years and 3 months since the inception of GST, one would expect the early teething problems were overcome, and the new radical indirect tax regime would be up and running! Although, due to various factors, including the recent pandemic, we are seeing continuous amendments, delays in implementation and lack of a dependable infrastructure. Rule 36(4), i.e. the ITC matching...
GST Case Law Updates – November 2020
1. Interest for delayed payment – Tolerance of an Act Vs. Addition to Consideration
The Maharashtra Appellate Authority For Advance Ruling in Bajaj Finance Ltd 2020-TIOL-64-AAAR-GST has ruled the additional/penal interest recovered by the appellant from customers against delayed payment of monthly instalments of the loan extended to the customers would be exempt from GST.
Issue: Schedule II of the CGST Act, 2017 provides “agreeing to the obligation to refrain from an act, or...
Read moreGST Case law Update – October 2020
- Supply of goods and supply of service made form different registration of the same taxpayer is neither a works contract nor composite supply?
Maharashtra Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling in the case of Vertiv Energy Pvt Ltd 2020-TIOL-50-AAAR-GST has ruled when the goods are supplied from one registration and the installation of such goods has been made from different registration would not be a composite supply.
Facts:
- Single contract for supply and installation of...