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The government is striving to meet the GST deadline which is proposed on 1 April 2017. The implementation date for the goods and services tax is highly crucial and the Govt don’t want to extend it further as the bill has already been late, said finance minister Arun Jaitley.
GST and VAT are both counter approach taxation system by the government to held valuation of goods and services across the nation. Talking about the older tax system, i.e. value added tax it was the earlier method of applying taxes on the general public while the goods and services tax is held to change this course of action towards the consumers.
BJP MP Subramanian Swamy said that it is quite impossible to implement the GST completely and value its functionality in a proper manner unless the private companies get replaced with the state-owned companies in the GST network. This will work as a backbone to the new indirect tax regime.
As of now, 15 of the total states have taken the decision of supporting the much talked about GST bill. Now the turn is for major states and all the eyes are on to them. After the GST bill received approval from the monsoon session on August 8 in Parliament, now 14 states are left to ratify the bill and a GST council will be established thereafter. There are some states that are yet to take up the GST in their legislative assembly and some haven’t shown a sign of support.
Industry demanded 18 per cent GST rate as it finds that the April 2017 deadline is hard and will likely generate tax buoyancy without controlling inflation. Industry also demanded relaxation in the penal provisions. According to the sources, the Industry when holding meeting with the state finance ministers said that it is hard to meet the deadline in 2017 as they need sufficient time to develop the IT infrastructure.
The nation has seen the clearing of GST Bill with much more anticipation and the government was also seen in all support with this new tax regime. After all, the GST has something very special to provide for the citizen of India. The said bill is said to subsume all the current indirect tax prevailing in the country.
The Invoice/bill is the document which is available in both soft and hard copy. It consists of the details of the supplier/ purchaser along with the name of the Sales/ purchaser, registration no. (VAT, Service Tax, UIN etc.). The bill also consists of the purchaser details complied of an Item name, Quantity, Tax rate, tax amount. The invoice is made in general format and there is no other format available.
It’s a document either online or in paper format in which details of supplier/ purchaser are incorporated like Name of the Sales/ purchaser, registration no. (VAT, Service Tax, UIN etc.)as well as in bill details of sales or purchases like Item name, Quantity, Tax rate, tax amount should be there. There is no specific format for invoices but there are some general formats.
The Goods and Services Tax Bill after being passed in both the houses of parliament officially known as The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Second Amendment) Bill, 2014 is implemented from 1 April 2017. In the Indirect Tax Law system, there were many taxes levied like Central Excise duty, Service tax, Countervailing duty and Central Sales tax […]
