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Gift or not? The confusion over GST on promotional schemes run by businessesWhile the term ‘business’ has been defined under the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (the CGST Act), there is no definite yardstic...
AAAR ruling on salary to impact head office-branch GST dynamicsCummins India had approached the AAAR with questions including whether allocation of the cost of employees' salary by the head /corporate o...
A dispute on definition of "intermediary" puts $147 bn IT sector in a tax quandaryThe country's $147 billion IT and ITeS industry, including the back offices of several multinationals such as Genpact and WNS Global, has s...
No GST on membership or admission fee: Maharashtra AAARThe Maharashtra AAAR effectively set aside the state AAR ruling that had termed membership fee as supply of service liable to GST. The stat...
Maharashtra Appellate Authority of Advance Rulings allows input tax credit for companies using vehicles to transport cash to ATMsThe AAAR said the revenue department’s arguments that money be treated differently from other goods since RBI guidelines are not applicable...
JSW Group receives clarity from Maharashtra AAAR for GST on coalSeveral industries like cement and aluminium have also raised issues on this subject said lawyer Rohit Jain, partner at Economic Laws Pract...
IT to get tax relief from redefined ‘intermediary’GST Council may stop levying tax on IT/ITeS intermediary service providers’ back office work for foreign clients. The issue had come to the...
BPO firms left in the lurch over input tax refundRefunds have remained stuck because of unclear laws, making for a serious issue for the entire industry.
Shot in arm for BPOs: No GST on select servicesBusiness to be treated as 'intermediary' only when there is clear facilitation of services.
Select BPO services won’t be subject to GST: Government“The clarification will help in settling most of the frivolous objections regarding export of services in case of intermediary services,” s...
Scope of ‘intermediary’ for ITeS services extended, many may lose export benefit, pay 18% GSTIt has been emphasized that a supplier of service would not be treated as intermediary, if services are being provided on his own account, ...
GST Council may consider national bench of AAAR next month; move to give certainty to taxpayersThe AARs in different states have passed about 470 orders, while AAARs have disposed of around 69 cases till March 2019.
GST's promise of one nation, one tax. Has it delivered?On the roadmap ahead, industry leaders opine that GST council needs to take charge and restart the work of aligning tax rules, so as to ens...
Solar plants await clarity on GST rateThe rulings of the appellate authorities came on appeals against the decisions of the Karnataka and Maharashtra advance ruling authorities,...
State appellate body upholds GST on liquidated damagesLiquidated damages are fines levied by the owner of a project to the contractor in case of cancellation or delay of trial operation within ...
One year of GST: Reality check of government initiativesWhile the road to 'One Nation-One Tax' has been a topsy-turvy ride, the Government has put in best efforts to address various issues includ...