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GST department is soon going to come up with measures to duly verify the exports and are also planning to install a standard operating procedure (SOP) for on the stop verification of suspected taxpayers. This would prove to be an excellent step towards eradicating tax evasion from the country. In the National GST Conference of […]
Gujrat High Court has recently dictated the Union government, the GST Council, and the Customs authorities about surcharge and cess levy on duties that are paid through scrip-based incentives by the exporters. A bunch of exporters reached the doors of Gujrat High Court challenging the legitimacy of the imposition of tax on cess or social […]
Kerela High Court recently gave a verdict permitting the tax officials to cancel the GST registration of the taxpayers who are guilty of not filing the returns for six back to back months. In the hearing, the petitioner defaulted filing the returns from May 20 onwards. The petitioner is a taxpayer that failed to file […]
There is a possibility of a hike in the rates of certain finished goods with the arrival of the government’s amended duty structure on them as per which finished goods attract lower rates than the raw materials. The amended provisions could affect mobile phones, textiles and a few other goods categories. The government is already […]
Taxpayers can expect a delay in the implementation of the e-invoice under the GST mechanism as the government is intending to postpone the event to 1 July 2020. Discussions for the same will be held in the upcoming 39th GST council meeting As per the sources, the next upcoming 39th GST council meet will discuss […]
Businesses dealing with the levy of around Rs. 46,000 crores as interest on delayed GST payments are expected to get some relief as the GST council is proposing to calculate interest on their net tax liability and with a retrospective effect. Finance Ministry has not yet concluded how much shall be accumulated from the assessee. […]
February ended on a good note for the country and its economy as a total of 6.35 Crore Income Tax Returns were being filed electronically in mid-February. The number hiked from 6.28 Crore in 2018-19. Replying to the question of Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur said the numbers are constantly […]
Samsung being under the tax radar for long has finally been penalized with the whooping sum of Rs. 3.7 million for not passing on the tax benefits to the customers. Samsung is the star electronic manufacturing brand prevailing in India with not less than 50% current user base. The government has recently announced the rate […]
February’s Goods and Service Tax contribution to the national treasury stood at Rs. 1.05 lakh crore which is still less than the targets pre-assumed by the government. Though the GST collection was not up to the targets of the government (i.e. Rs. 1.15 lakh crore for Feb month), it was able to gross 8% more […]