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Valuation is the measurement of value on which any tax has to be paid. The typical construction contract is the composition of three components namely

• Land or an undivided portion of land in case of apartments
• Materials/goods like cement, steel etc.,
• Services like labour in construction, designing etc. 

Before GST was introduced, different indirect taxes were levied on the above mentioned three components. State government levied Stamp Duty on transfer of immovable...

The Constitutional (101) amendment Act 2016 clearly states in the Statement of Objectives for ushering in GST that it is to remove the cascading effect of taxes and allow the seamless flow of the tax credit across the supply chain. It means that it should avaoid tax on tax.

Conceptually, GST is levied on ONLY value addition at each stage of supply chain starting from manufacture or import and till the last retail level. This is with a facility of the Input credit (‘ITC’ for short) of...