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Article 265 prohibits collection of tax except under the authority of law. Only supply as covered defined would be liable for GST. The applicability/coverage under “supply” need not be reasonable or logical. The entries for GST payable even without consideration or import of services even if it is for personal consumption and not for business indicate this.

The definition of the business appears to be all-pervasive and therefore many taxpayers/ professionals wonder what is that which...

The scheme of tax under GST for the real estate sector saw a sea change from 1^st Apr ’19. The changes though were more for the residential projects. However, there were changes brought about in some of the provisions relating to the commercial projects as well and in this article we are specifically looking into the valuation provisions that have changed for the commercial projects.

Without getting into the provisions that existed prior to 1^st Apr ’19, we would have a look at the...

In India, most of us the educated and lucky are inclined to pay just taxes. However, the uneducated or the poor are unable to meet ends and would like to avoid taxes. Let us list out some of the common factors why GST is evaded by the industry/ trade:

1. Change management of the unorganised SME, revenue officers and IT literacy in a big way can make the advantages of being in the mainstream, ease of complying a reality. This has failed miserably. Maybe an outsourced service provider to...

In recent years, the issue of Service Tax/GST liability on the Notice period recovery is a subject matter of dispute. While certain conservative employers have made a choice to pay service tax on such recoveries, certain employers have made bold choices of not paying taxes which were followed by the issuance of the demand notices/orders confirming the service tax demand by the Revenue department. The demands are agitated before various forums and very recently the...

The concept of self-assessment in tax administration was introduced in India with an expectation to usher in a new era of trust-based partnership with the assessees leading to greater facilitation of compliant assessees.

“Circular Trading”, “Fake Bill issue”, “enhanced bill” unfortunately are methods of tax evasion not new in India. Under GST bogus invoices are raised without any actual supply of goods or services or both in several stages culminating finally in no supply or...