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The Indian auto industry is one of the largest in the world. The industry accounts for 7.1 per cent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Almost 13% of the revenue from central excise is from this sector and claims a size of 4.3% of total exports from India. Despite its contribution to the economy and growth potential, this sector has been combating the hardship of high tax rates for substantially a long period of time now with central excise duty ranging between 12.5% to 30%...

The liability to pay CGST / SGST or IGST on the goods or service shall arise at the time of supply as determined in terms of the Model GST Act. The point of time of supply refers to the point of time when an activity attracts the levy of GST in terms of the provisions of section 12.  

In the absence of specific provisions to determine time of supply, there could be lot of ambiguity in determining the exact time of supply as the event of supply could contain many sub events. For...

Background  

GST is a destination based consumption tax where in the levy of tax moves along with goods and /or services. Destination of export of goods/and services would be outside India and hence there would be no GST liability on such transactions.  

Export of Service:  

Sec 2(6) of the revised model IGST law provides the definition for export of services.   

?Export of services? means the supply of any service when;  

1. the supplier of service is located in...

Service tax levy on ocean freight charges even when the services are provided outside India  has attracted lot of criticism from trade within the country. This would also effect countries like Nepal as the levy would affect the transit treaty between the countries. Service tax levy from 22nd January 2017 has created few confusions with respect to aspects like liability, point of taxation and Cenvat credit etc. Importers who hitherto were not liable for service tax on ocean...