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SEIS [ Services Export Incentive Scheme] is one of the export incentive scheme of  DGFT in chapter 3 of Free Trade Policy 2015-20 of India. This scheme aims to incentivize service exporters of India with the objective to encourage and maximize export of notified services from India. A large number of service providers have not been claiming this benefit due to either lack of awareness or have doubts on it being sanctioned easily. It is available in normal course in most...

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...

PREFACE 

The transactions in the real estate sector have their own peculiarities and thereby one has always felt the need for having a separate set of provisions that would be more specific to this sector rather than the general provisions that would be applicable to any other sector. This need was felt right from the sales tax ( later VAT) as well as in service tax regime.  
However, with the series of changes that have been made effective from 1st April, 2019 it can be seen that the...