Complimentary Tickets Deemed Supply Under CGST Act 2017; GST Payment Required for Services Rendered by Tolerance or Agreement.

Complimentary Tickets Deemed Supply Under CGST Act 2017; GST Payment Required for Services Rendered by Tolerance or Agreement.
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Whether free tickets given as “Complimentary Tickets” falls within the definition of supply under CGST Act, 2017 and thus, whether the applicant is required to pay GST on such free tickets? – Held Yes – agreeing to the obligation to refrain from an act, or to tolerate an act or a situation, or to do an act would be treated as supply of service

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Lab Manual with Exercises Classified as Printed Books Under GST Tariff 4901, Subject to Nil Tax Rate.

Lab Manual with Exercises Classified as Printed Books Under GST Tariff 4901, Subject to Nil Tax Rate.
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GST
Classification of supply – Lab Manual comprising bulk of instructional /educational printed material – ‘Lab Manual’ is primarily a printed book in the major part with a smaller, yet not insignificant part dedicated to providing blank space to the students to do his/her written exercises – classified under GST Tariff heading 4901 as printed books which currently carry a

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One sided provisions in taxation laws

One sided provisions in taxation laws
Query (Issue) Started By: – Jitender Ranka Dated:- 13-10-2018 Last Reply Date:- 25-10-2018 Goods and Services Tax – GST
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GST
By looking at interest provisions and many other provisions in GST, income tax and other provisions it seems Mr. Jately is not at all a fit person to be a Finance Minister. Many provisions in these laws are such that shows government dictatorial thinking which portrays public as helpless cows whom they can draw milk to the extent of it's blood.
Interest of 18%pa is levied on late payment of tax while on refund government will pay meagre 6%pa.
We as public decry such thinking and government should make equal provisions for public and for lapses from

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SHOULD WE FILE WRIT PETITION AGAINST GST LAPSED BY NOTIFICATION NO 20/2018

SHOULD WE FILE WRIT PETITION AGAINST GST LAPSED BY NOTIFICATION NO 20/2018
Query (Issue) Started By: – Gopikishan Kabra Dated:- 13-10-2018 Last Reply Date:- 15-10-2018 Goods and Services Tax – GST
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GST
PLEASE ADVICE SHOULD WE FILE WRIT PETITION AGAINST LAPSE GST NOTIFICATION ON FOLLOWING POINTS.
1. THE NOTIFICATION IS ON RECOMMENDATION OF GST COUNCIL BUT IN THE MINUTES OF GST COUNCIL THERE IS NO ANY RECOMMENDATION TO LAPSE THE ITC.
2.THE SURPLUS ITC IS OUR CURRENT ASSETS AND PART OF OUR WORKING CAPITAL .WE HAVE PAID VALUE IN CASH FOR IT AND IN CONSIDERATION OF IT RIGHT TO UTILIZE THE SAME IN FUTURE WAS GRANTED BY THE ACT AND ITC IS ACCUMULATED WITH RIGHTS TO UTILIZE IN FUTURE HENCE IT MAY NOT BE FORFEITED.
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Clarification on Sanction of GST Refunds

Clarification on Sanction of GST Refunds
GST
Dated:- 13-10-2018

It has been noticed that unverified reports of pending GST refunds on account of exports are published in the print media by trade bodies. These figures being put out in the public domain are exaggerated and thus inaccurate. It is a fact that a large number of exporters have been granted refunds so far while a few claims are still pending owing to deficiencies found in the claims.
In this regard, it is clarified that about 92.68% (Rs 38,824 crore) of the total IGST refund claims (Rs. 41,889 crore) transmitted to Customs from GSTN as on date have already been disposed. The remaining claims amounting to ₹ 3065 crores are held up on account of various deficie

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o-operation of the exporter community is solicited to ensure that they exercise due diligence while filing GSTR 1 and GSTR 3B returns as well as Shipping Bills.
Extensive outreach programmes have been conducted along with issuance of guidance circulars, advisories, FAQs, advertisements etc and also an alternative procedure involving manual interface has been provided where the errors could not be corrected online. The efforts are beginning to show positive results. The exporting community is assured that all their eligible refund claims will be sanctioned without any delay. Further, the export bodies are also requested to put out only verified figures in their press communication as unsubstantiated reports cause needless alarm amongst the

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E-WAY BILL

E-WAY BILL
Query (Issue) Started By: – S.C. WADHWA Dated:- 13-10-2018 Last Reply Date:- 14-10-2018 Goods and Services Tax – GST
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GST
DEAR EXPERT,
We have sent one consignment of food products from haryana to mumbai alongwith copy of E-way bill. In e-way bill inadvartantly K.M. 150 were mentioned instead of 1500.
And on E-way bill date generated 8.10.18,Time 6.03 PM and Valid upto 10.10.18 was published accordingly.
The vehicle was detained at 5PM at Bhilad border of

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Import under advance authorisation

Import under advance authorisation
Query (Issue) Started By: – Arun Aggarwal Dated:- 13-10-2018 Last Reply Date:- 15-10-2018 Goods and Services Tax – GST
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GST
sir
Is Exporter Debarred From Exporting Goods With Payment Of IGST if taken on Advance authorisation
Arun
Reply By Kishan Barai:
The Reply:
It is the choice of the domestic supplier to use either of them. If the duty paid inputs exist in his inventory, then he may use ARO and apply for refund. Otherwise, he

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Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018.

Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018.
MAHARASHTRA ORDINANCE No. XXII OF 2018 Dated:- 13-10-2018 Maharashtra SGST
GST – States
Maharashtra SGST
Maharashtra SGST
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
Mantralaya, Madam Cama Marg, Hutatma Rajguru Chowk,
Mumbai 400 032, dated the 13th October 2018.
MAHARASHTRA ORDINANCE No. XXII OF 2018.
AN ORDINANCE
further to amend the Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.
WHEREAS both Houses of the State Legislature are not in session ;
AND WHEREAS the Governor of Maharashtra is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action further to amend the Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, for the purposes hereinafter appearing ;
NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 213 of the Constitution of India, the Governor of Maharashtra is hereby pleased to promulgate the following Ordinance, namely :-
Short title and commencement
1. (1)

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, for the words “Central Board of Excise and Customs” the words “Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs” shall be substituted ;
(c) in clause (17), for sub-clause (h), the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely :-
“(h) activities of a race club including by way of totalisator or a license to book maker or activities of a licensed book maker in such club; and”;
(d) clause (18) shall be deleted ;
(e) in clause (35), for the word, brackets and letter “clause (c)” the word, brackets and letter, “clause (b)” shall be substituted;
(f) in clause (69), in sub-clause (f), after the word and figures “article 371” the words, figures and letter “and article 371J” shall be inserted;
(g) in clause (102), the following Explanation shall be inserted, namely:-
“Explanation.For the removal of doubts, it is hereby clarified that the expression, "services" includes facilitating or arranging transactions in securities ; “.
Amendment of section 7 of Mah. XLIII of 2017.
3.

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l be substituted.
Amendment of section 9 of Mah. XLIII of 2017.
4. In section 9 of the principal Act, for sub-section (4), the following subsection shall be substituted, namely:
“(4) The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, by notification, specify a class of registered persons who shall, in respect of supply of specified categories of goods or services or both received from an unregistered supplier, pay the tax on reverse charge basis as the recipient of such supply of goods or services or both, and all the provisions of this Act shall apply to such recipient as if he is the person liable for paying the tax in relation to such supply of goods or services or both.”.
Amendment of section 10 of Mah. XLIII of 2017.
5. In section 10 of the principal Act, –
(a) in sub-section (1),-
(i) for the words “in lieu of the tax payable by him, an amount calculated at such rate” the words, brackets and figures “in lieu of the tax payable by him under sub-section (1) of secti

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13 of Mah. XLIII of 2017
7. In section 13 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), the words, brackets and figure “sub-section (2) of “, at both the places where they occur, shall be deleted.
Amendment of section 16 of Mah. XLIII of 2017
8. In section 16 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2),
(a) in clause (b), for the Explanation, the following Explanation shall be substituted, namely:-
“Explanation.-For the purposes of this clause, it shall be deemed that the registered person has received the goods or, as the case may be, services
(i) where the goods are delivered by the supplier to a recipient or any other person on the direction of such registered person, whether acting as an agent or otherwise, before or during movement of goods, either by way of transfer of documents of title to goods or otherwise;
(ii) where the services are provided by the supplier to any person on the direction of and on account of such registered person.”;
(b) in clause (c), for the word and figu

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when they are used
(i) for making the following taxable supplies, namely:-
(A) further supply of such vessels or aircraft; or
(B) transportation of passengers; or
(C) imparting training on navigating such vessels; or
(D) imparting training on flying such aircraft;
(ii) for transportation of goods;
(ab) services of general insurance, servicing, repair and maintenance in so far as they relate to motor vehicles, vessels or aircraft referred to in clause (a) or clause (aa):
Provided that, the input tax credit in respect of such services shall be available,-
(i) where the motor vehicles, vessels or aircraft referred to in clause (a) or clause (aa) are used for the purposes specified therein;
(ii) where received by a taxable person engaged-
(I) in the manufacture of such motor vehicles, vessels or aircraft; or
(II) in the supply of general insurance services in respect of such motor vehicles, vessels or aircraft insured by him;
(b) the following supply of goods or services or b

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e time being in force.”.
Amendment of section 20 of Mah. XLIII of 2017.
10. In section 20 of the principal Act, in the Explanation, in clause (c), for the words and figures “under entry 84” the words, figures and letter “under entries 84 and 92A” shall be substituted.
Amendment of section 22 of Mah. XLIII of 2017.
11. In section 22 of the principal Act, –
(a) in sub-section (1), after the proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided further that, the Government may, at the request of a special category State and on the recommendations of the Council, enhance the aggregate turnover referred to in the first proviso from ten lakh rupees to such amount, not exceeding twenty lakh rupees and subject to such conditions and limitations, as may be so notified.”;
(b) in the Explanation, in clause (iii), after the word “Constitution” the words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir and the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim and U

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istration for each such place of business, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.”.
Amendment of section 29 of Mah. XLIII of 2017
14. In section 29 of the principal Act,
(a) in the marginal note, after the word “Cancellation” the words “or suspension” shall be inserted ;
(b) in sub-section (1), after clause (c), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided that, during pendency of the proceedings relating to cancellation of registration filed by the registered person, the registration may be suspended for such period and in such manner as may be prescribed.”;
(c) in sub-section (2), after the proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided further that, during pendency of the proceedings relating to cancellation of registration, the proper officer may suspend the registration for such period and in such manner as may be prescribed.”.
Amendment of section 34 of Mah. XLIII of 2017
15. In section 34 of the principal Act,
(a) in sub-s

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uthorities under any law for the time being in force.”.
Amendment of section 39 of Mah. XLIII of 2017.
17. In section 39 of the principal Act,
(a) in sub-section (1),-
(i) for the words ” in such form and manner as may be prescribed ” the words ” in such form, manner and within such time as may be prescribed ” shall be substituted ;
(ii) the words “on or before the twentieth day of the month succeeding such calendar month or part thereof ” shall be deleted ;
(iii) the following proviso shall be inserted, namely :-
“Provided that, the Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, notify certain classes of registered persons who shall furnish return for every quarter or part thereof, subject to such conditions and safeguards as may be specified therein.”;
(b) in sub-section (7), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:
“Provided that, the Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, notify certain classes of registered persons who shall pay to the Gove

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section 39 verify, validate, modify or delete the details of supplies furnished by the suppliers.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 41, section 42 or section 43, the procedure for availing of input tax credit by the recipient and verification thereof shall be such as may be prescribed.
(3) The procedure for furnishing the details of outward supplies by the supplier on the common portal, for the purposes of availing input tax credit by the recipient shall be such as may be prescribed.
(4) The procedure for availing input tax credit in respect of outward supplies not furnished under sub-section (3) shall be such as may be prescribed and such procedure may include the maximum amount of the input tax credit which can be so availed, not exceeding twenty per cent. of the input tax credit available, on the basis of details furnished by the suppliers under the said sub-section.
(5) The amount of tax specified in the outward supplies for which the details have been furnished

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months from the due date of payment of such defaulted amount,
shall be such as may be prescribed.”.
Amendment of section 48 of Mah. XLIII of 2017
19. In section 48 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), after the word and figures “section 45” the words “and to perform such other functions” shall be inserted.
Amendment of section 49 of Mah. XLIII of 2017.
20. In section 49 of the principal Act,
(a) in sub-section (2), for the word and figures “section 41” the words, figures and letter “section 41 or section 43A” shall be substituted ;
(b) in sub-section (5),
(i) in clause (c), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely :-
“Provided that, the input tax credit on account of State tax shall be utilised towards payment of integrated tax only where the balance of the input tax credit on account of central tax is not available for payment of integrated tax;”;
(ii) in clause (d), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely :-
“Provided that the input tax credit on accou

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nd manner of utilisation of the input tax credit on account of integrated tax, central tax, State tax or Union territory tax, as the case may be, towards payment of any such tax.”.
Amendment of section 52 of Mah. XLIII of 2017
22. In section 52 of the principal Act, in sub-section (9), for the word and figures “section 37” the words and figures “section 37 or section 39” shall be substituted.
Amendment of section 54 of Mah. XLIII of 2017
23. In section 54 of the principal Act,-
(a) in sub-section (8), in clause (a), for the words “zero-rated supplies” the words “export” and “exports” shall respectively, be substituted;
(b) in the Explanation, in clause (2),
(i) in sub-clause (c), in item (i), after the words “foreign exchange” the words “or in Indian rupees wherever permitted by the Reserve Bank of India” shall be inserted;
(ii) for sub-clause (e), the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely:
“(e) in the case of refund of unutilised input tax credit under clause (ii)

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serted.
Amendment of section 129 of Mah. XLIII of 2017
27. In section 129 of the principal Act, in sub-section (6) and in the proviso, for the words “seven days”, the words “fourteen days” shall be substituted.
Amendment of section 143 of Mah. XLIII of 2017.
28. In section 143 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), in clause (b), after the proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely :-
“Provided further that, the period of one year and three years may, on sufficient cause being shown, be extended by the Commissioner for a further period not exceeding one year and two years respectively.”.
Amendment of Schedule I of Mah. XLIII of 2017
29. In Schedule I appended to the principal Act, in paragraph 4, for the words “taxable person” the word “person” shall be substituted.
Amendment of Schedule II of Mah. XLIII of 2017
30. In Schedule II appended to the principal Act, in the heading, after the word “ACTIVITIES” the words “OR TRANSACTIONS” shall be inserted and shall

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to it in the Customs Act, 1962 [52 of 1962.].”.
STATEMENT
The Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (Mah. XLIII of 2017) has been enacted with a view to make a provision for levy and collection of tax on intra-State supply of goods or services or both.
2. The Act provides for certain provisions for smooth transition of existing tax payers to new goods and services tax regime. However, the new tax regime has faced certain difficulties. One of the major inconveniences caused to the taxpayers, especially small and medium enterprises, is the process of filing the return and payment of tax under the Goods and Services Tax laws. In this regard, the proposed new return filing system envisages quarterly filing of the return and tax payment for small taxpayers along with minimum paperwork. In order to implement the new return filing system, and also to overcome the above difficulties, it is proposed to amend the Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, suitably.
3. (The proposed

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ns for multiple places of business located within the same State and to provide for separate registration for Special Economic Zone unit or developer;
(vii) to amend section 29 of the Act, so as to insert a provision for temporary suspension of registration while cancellation of registration is under process;
(viii) to insert a new section 43A, so as to provide for the new system of filing return and availing input tax credit;
(ix) to amend sub-section (6) of section 107 of the Act relating to Appeals, so as to provide that the amount of pre-deposit payable for filing of appeal shall be capped at twenty five crore rupees;
(x) to amend section 129 of the Act, so as to increase the period relating to detention or seizure of goods and conveyance in transit from seven days to fourteen days.
4. As both Houses of the State Legislature are not in session and the Governor of Maharashtra is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action furthe

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In Re: M/s. K.K. Polymers (Prop. Advantage Agency Pvt. Ltd.)

In Re: M/s. K.K. Polymers (Prop. Advantage Agency Pvt. Ltd.)
GST
2018 (11) TMI 1264 – AUTHORITY FOR ADVANCE RULING, RAJASTHAN – 2018 (19) G. S. T. L. 380 (A. A. R. – GST)
AUTHORITY FOR ADVANCE RULING, RAJASTHAN – AAR
Dated:- 13-10-2018
AAR No. RAJ/AAR/2018-19/20
GST
NITIN WAPA AND HEMANT JAIN MEMBER
Present for the applicant: Shri Hemendra Choudhary, CA (Authorised representative)
Note: Under Section 100 of the CGST/RGST Act 2017, an appeal against this ruling lies before the Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling constituted under section 99 of CGST/RGST Act 2017, within a period of 30 days from the date of service of this order.
The Issue raised by M/s. K. K. Polymers (Prop. Adventage Agency Pvt. Ltd) 201202, 2nd Floor, Girnar Colony, Gandhi Path, Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur- 302021 {hereinafter the applicant} is fit to pronounce advance ruling as it falls under the ambit of the Section 97 (2) (a) (b),(d),(e) and (g), given as under:
a. Classification of any good

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of goods to customers and receiver of payments). Collection of payment from customers is the responsibility of DCA.
1.2 Normally, Principal takes Bank Guarantee (BG) and / or Security Deposit against which principal assigns certain limit to the DCA in their system. Within that limit, DCA is allowed to place orders of the customers. At the end of the month, for the orders booked through DCA and goods supplied by the principal, DCA gets the commission from principal for which DCA raises invoices on the principal along with GST.
1.3 If payment is made directly by the DCA before due date (before 10 days credit period) on behalf of customer, the Principal gives Additional Commission to the DCA as per the agreement between Principal and DCA.
1.4 The role of the DCA is to promote the sale and book order and ensure payment to the principal in case of default from the customer. In the entire transaction, neither principal supplies the goods to DCA nor does DCA supply the goods to customers.

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osition to pay to principal on the due date, he approaches DCA to extend short term loan and the loan is extended by the DCA by making payment to the principal on behalf of the customer. The loan is repaid to DCA by the customer along with agreed interest.
1.8 If a customer makes the payment to DCA earlier than 10 days then the customer ask for the reimbursement towards early payment at a predetermined rate, as is being offered by the Principal.
2. QUESTIONS ON WHICH THE ADVANCE RULING IS SOUGHT
Applicant has sought ruling to be pronounced under section 97 (2) (a) (b), (d), (e) and (g) of the CGST Act 2017, on the following questions:
1. The amount passed on to the customer by DCA on account of the early payment before credit period allowed by principal as referred in Para 8 of Sr. No. 12 (B) of the application (para 1.8 above). Whether any 'supply” arises in this transaction? Who is the supplier and receiver in the transaction?
2. If yes, what will be the classification of such S

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3. Personal Hearing (PH)
3.1 In the matter personal hearing was given to the applicant. Mr. Hemendra Choudhary, CA (Authorised representative) of applicant appeared for personal hearing on 08.10.2018. During the PH he reiterated the submissions made in the application. He was requested to produce the copy agreement between the DCA and the Customers and also to produce billing commission papers between Reliance and the DCA within two days of hearing. He agreed to provide the documents and requested that the case may be decided on above submission at the earliest.
3.2 In this context, the jurisdictional officer submitted that work of DCA is basically to act as a mediator between the principal and the customer. Further as per policy the principal allows early payment incentives to their customers. As per Section 15(3) of CGST Act:
“The value of the supply shall not include any discount which is given-
(a) before or at the time of the supply if such discount has been duly recorded in

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and Conclusion:
4.1 We have gone through the contents of the application filed by the applicant, submission made at the time of personal hearing and comments of the jurisdictional officer and find that the applicant and Reliance Industries Ltd. ( in short RIL) are in agreement vide dated 13.10.2017 for Agreement of Agency on Del Credere Basis. As per pricing policy of RIL dated 15.06.2018 regarding supply of goods for sale, the cash discount of Rs. 800/MT/Day is applicable on all grades except plant sweepings and waste grades and will be deducted from the basic price as per price Circular for payment of GST. Further, an additional bonus / discount of Rs. 80/ MT/ Day is available on early payment made by the applicant or the customer against such supplies made by the RIL, if such payment is made within 10 days of supply of the goods.
4.2 In normal course of supply between the Customer and RIL, RIL supplies the goods or services to the Customer. If the customer makes the payment again

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stomer agreement also. The applicant vide their letter dated 10.10.2018 submitted that there is no separate agreement with customer in relation to supply of goods or services from the RIL.
4.5 We are of the view that the transaction made between DCA and the Customer for passing on the specified bonus given by the principal is nothing but an additional discount given for early payment made by the customer. In this case there is only one supply made by the principal to the customer. The additional discount relates to supply already made by the principal and passing on such bonus to the customers by DCA is in the nature of pure agent. However, any amount retained by the DCA on account of early payment is in the nature of supply made to the principal as business support services on which the DCA is already paying GST. When the reply of first question is in negative, there is no need to answer question No. 2, 3 and 4 of the applicant.
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Wrong Eway Bill

Wrong Eway Bill
Query (Issue) Started By: – Pankaj P Dated:- 12-10-2018 Last Reply Date:- 6-1-2019 Goods and Services Tax – GST
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GST
Dear Experts,
Request your advice…
We raised an e way bill on 3rd Oct for a shipment of material from Delhi to Maharashtra. We made part A and transporter entered vehicle details and made part B.
Material reached Maharashtra on 9th Oct.
But, today we discovered that tax invoice was from our 'X' firm and e way bill was wrongly made from our 'y' firm.
Now, what to be done now to avoid any complication in future?
Best Regards,
Punnu D
Reply By Ganeshan Kalyani:
The Reply:
E-way bill can be cancelled within 24 hours. And e-way bill to be generated before movem

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Export of zero rated supply-date of invoice or date of let export in shiping bill.

Export of zero rated supply-date of invoice or date of let export in shiping bill.
Query (Issue) Started By: – Narendra Soni Dated:- 12-10-2018 Last Reply Date:- 12-10-2018 Goods and Services Tax – GST
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GST
Dear Experts
We raised export invoice on 30.09.18 and moved the container for customs ICD for clearance and filling Shipping Bill..
Shipping bill let export made on dtd 01.10.18
Kindly suggest:- Would it be count as export sale in
1.GSTR-1 return for Sept.18
2.in Net Zero rated turnover and Adjusted total turnover for ITC Refund application for the month of Sept.18.
Reply By SHIVKUMAR SHARMA:
The Reply:
Goods Cleared From the Business Premises on 30 .09.2018 & Invoice is prepared on 30.09.2018 so as per m

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Water Supply Contract for Iron Removal Subject to 12% GST: All Necessary Goods and Services Included.

Water Supply Contract for Iron Removal Subject to 12% GST: All Necessary Goods and Services Included.
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GST
Classification of Services – Rate of GST – contract for supply of water aft

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Exemption Denied for Composite Supply in ICT @ School Project; Classification of Supply Clarified.

Exemption Denied for Composite Supply in ICT @ School Project; Classification of Supply Clarified.
Case-Laws
GST
Classification of supply – composite supply of goods and services – services p

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Reactor Classified Under 8421 21 90; Subject to 9% CGST and 9% SGST for Non-Household Use Filters.

Reactor Classified Under 8421 21 90; Subject to 9% CGST and 9% SGST for Non-Household Use Filters.
Case-Laws
GST
Classification of goods – rate of GST – The Reactor is neither an Ion exchange

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Educational Services Ineligible for Tax Exemption Without NSDC-Defined Qualification Standards or Framework.

Educational Services Ineligible for Tax Exemption Without NSDC-Defined Qualification Standards or Framework.
Case-Laws
GST
Classification of education services rendered by appellant – The Educational courses for which qualification standards / framework i.e. QP/ NOS has not been defined by NSDC will not be treated as in relation to National Skill Development Programme implemented by NSDC. – Benefit of exemption not available.
TMI Updates – Highlights, quick notes, marquee, annotatio

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M/s Shiv Oil Agency Versus Union of India And 4 Others

M/s Shiv Oil Agency Versus Union of India And 4 Others
GST
2018 (10) TMI 744 – ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT – 2018 (19) G. S. T. L. 428 (All.)
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT – HC
Dated:- 12-10-2018
Writ Tax No. – 1370 of 2018
GST
Bharati Sapru Versus Salil Kumar Rai JJ.
For the Petitioner : Vishwjit
For the Respondent : A.S.G.I.,C.S.C.
ORDER
Heard Sri Vishwjit, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri O.P. Srivastava, learned counsel for the respondents no.1 to 3.
The petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus directing the GST council respondent no.2 to make recommendations to the State Government to extend the time period for filing of GST Tran-1 in the case of the petitioner because his application was not entertained on the last da

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Tahnee Heights Co-operative Housing Society Limited Versus Commissioner of CGST, Mumbai South

Tahnee Heights Co-operative Housing Society Limited Versus Commissioner of CGST, Mumbai South
Service Tax
2018 (10) TMI 901 – CESTAT MUMBAI – 2019 (21) G. S. T. L. 440 (Tri. – Mumbai)
CESTAT MUMBAI – AT
Dated:- 12-10-2018
ST/85823 to 85827/2018 & ST/85829/2018 – A/87626-87631/2018
Service Tax
Mr. S.K. Mohanty, Member (Judicial)
For the Appellant : Shri Prasad Paranjape, Advocate with Shri Mohit Raval, CA
For the Respondent : Shri M.K.Sarangi, Joint Commissioner (AR)
ORDER
Per: S.K. Mohanty
Brief facts of the case, leading to this appeal, are as under:-
1.1 The appellant is a co-operative housing society, registered under the Maharashtra Co-operative Act, 1960 (for short, “the Act of 1960”). The appellant is the owner of the building, known as “Tahnee Heights”, in which members of such society owns their residential flats. The members of the appellant's society contribute towards maintenance and up-keep of the building and common expenses, as per the bye-

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r contended that the appellant being a body corporate, its case will not be governed by explanation 3(a) appended to Section 65B(44) of the Finance Act, 1944 (effective from 01.07.2012).
1.3 The department initiated show cause proceedings against the appellant, seeking for rejection of the refund applications. The matter was adjudicated against the appellant, in rejecting the refund applications. The appellant had preferred separate appeals before the ld. Commissioner (Appeals), Mumbai against different adjudication orders passed by the original authority. All the appeals filed by the appellant were disposed of by the lower appellate authority vide the common impugned order dated 27.12.2017. The appeals were rejected inter alia, on the ground that in the light of explanation 3(a) to Section 65B(44) ibid, the appellant and its members are to be treated as distinct entities and therefore, the appellant has correctly paid service tax.
1.4 Feeling aggrieved with the impugned order, the a

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26.04.2018 of the Tribunal passed in Appeal No. ST/11732/2017, in the case of Commissioner of Service Tax, -Vs.- Rajpath Club Ltd., to state that both under the un-amended and amended provisions of Finance Act, 1994, service provided by the society/club to its members shall not be leviable to service tax, in view of mutuality.
3. On the other hand, the ld. AR appearing for the revenue reiterated the findings recorded in the impugned order. He further submitted that as per the concept of “negative list” of services defined under Section 66D ibid (w.e.f. 01.07.2012), any service if not categorized there under or specifically exempted under any notification, shall be considered as a taxable service, for the purpose of levy of service tax.
4. Heard the rival contentions and perused the records, including the written submissions filed by both sides.
5. The issue involved in these appeals for consideration is, whether the ld. Commissioner (Appeals) has correctly interpreted the statutory

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other amount. Explanation – For the purposes of this section, taxable service includes any taxable service provided or to be provided by any unincorporated association or body of persons to a member thereof, for cash, deferred payment or any other valuable consideration.
Period after 01.07.2012 (Negative list)
Section 65B(44) : “service” means any activity carried out by a person for another for consideration, and includes a declared service.
Explanation 3(a) : For the purposes of this chapter, an unincorporated association or a body of persons, as the case may be, and a member thereof shall be treated as distinct persons.
7. On reading of the above statutory provisions, it transpires that there is no much of difference for recognition of the taxable service in dispute, for levy of service tax, under both the un-amended and amended provisions of the service tax statute. In order to be categorized as a “taxable service”, there must be existence of two parties i.e. the service pr

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Tribunal in the case of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (supra) has held that on application of the principle of mutuality, services provided by clubs/associations to their respective members would not fall within the ambit of the taxable “club or association” service. Further, in the case of Matunga Gymkhana (supra), this Tribunal has also taken the similar view.
Though the said decisions were rendered under the un-amended definition of taxable service (effective up to 30.06.2012), but the ratio laid down therein is squarely applicable to the post amended definition of “service' contained in the negative list regime (w.e.f. 01.07.2012), inasmuch as, in absence of presence of both service provider and service receiver, the transaction cannot be statutorily terms as taxable service and will not be exigible to service tax. Even under the negative list regime, for the period from 01.10.2015 to 31.03.2016, this Tribunal in the case of Rajpath Club Ltd. (supra) ha

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y taxes, water charges, common electricity charges, contribution to repair and maintenance fund, contribution to sinking fund, service charges etc. Clause 69 of the said Bye law also provides that the committee shall apportion the share of each member towards the charges of the society on the basis mentioned therein.
10. On perusal of the above statutory provisions, it reveals that upon registration of the society, the same is legally accepted as a body corporate and thereafter, its function and operation are strictly guided as per the laid down bye laws, provided for the purpose. In this case, it is no doubt, a fact that the appellant is a co-operative society and is duly incorporated under the Act of 1960. The appellant also do not provide any service to its members, who pay the amount towards their share of contribution, for occupation of the units in their respective possession. Further, the fact is also not under dispute that the appellant do not provide any facilities or advanta

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LAXMI NARAYAN SAHU, M/s P.K.M ERECTORS And M/s. MASCOT ENTRADE PVT. LTD. Versus UNION OF INDIA AND 2 ORS., THE COMMISSIONER CENTRAL GOODS AND SERVICES TAX DIBRUGARH, THE ASSTT. COMMISSIONER CENTRAL GOODS AND SERVICE TAX, THE UNION OF INDIA AND 2

LAXMI NARAYAN SAHU, M/s P.K.M ERECTORS And M/s. MASCOT ENTRADE PVT. LTD. Versus UNION OF INDIA AND 2 ORS., THE COMMISSIONER CENTRAL GOODS AND SERVICES TAX DIBRUGARH, THE ASSTT. COMMISSIONER CENTRAL GOODS AND SERVICE TAX, THE UNION OF INDIA AND 2 ORS, THE COMMISSIONER CENTRAL GST AND CENTRAL EXCISE GHY-5, THE ADDL. COMMISSIONER CENTRAL GST AND CENTRAL EXCISE GHY-5 AND THE UNION OF INDIA and 2 ORS., THE COMMISSIONER GST and CENTRAL EXCISE, THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF GST AND CENTRAL EXCISE
Service Tax
2018 (10) TMI 904 – GAUHATI HIGH COURT – [2019] 60 G S.T.R. 14 (Gau), 2018 (19) G. S. T. L. 626 (Gau.)
GAUHATI HIGH COURT – HC
Dated:- 12-10-2018
Case No. : WP(C) 2059/2018, WP(C) 1868/2018, WP(C) 7729/2017
Service Tax
Mr. Justice Achintya Malla Bujor Barua
For the Petitioner : Mr. A K Gupta, Mr. S Chetia And Mr.M L Gope
For the Respondent : Asstt. S.G.I., Asstt.S.G.I. And Mr. B Sarma
JUDGMENT & ORDER (ORAL)
Heard Mr. K.N. Choudhury, learned senior counsel for th

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a determination of which would lead to an adjudication of the dispute raised therein, the writ petitions are taken up together for a final consideration.
4. Mr. KN Choudhury, learned Senior counsel for the petitioners raises an issue that Section 173 of the CGST Act of 2017 having omitted chapter V of the Finance Act of 1994, no proceeding initiated under Chapter V can further be continued, in view of the legal implication of a statutory provision being omitted, as laid down by the Supreme Court in its decision in Messrs Rayala Corporaion (P) Ltd., Vs. Director of Enforcement, New Delhi reported in 1969 (2) SCC 412 in paragraph Nos. 17 and 18 and in Kolhapur Canesugar Work Ltd. and Another -vs- Union of India and Others reported in (2000) 2 SCC 536 in paragraph 37, which was again reiterated in General Finance Co. and Another -vs- Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, Punjab reported in (2002) 7 SCC 1.
5. Mr. SC Keyal, learned Assistant SGI appearing for the respondent authorities on

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pra):
17. Reference was next made to a decision of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in State of Madhya Pradesh v. Hiralal Sutwala(1), but, there again, the accused was sought to be prosecuted for 'an offence punishable under an Act on the repeal of which section 6 of the General Clauses Act had been made applicable. In the case before us, s. 6 of the General Clauses Act cannot obviously apply on the omission of R. 132A of the D.I.Rs. for the two obvious reasons that s. 6 only applies to repeals and not to omissions, and applies when the repeal is of a Central Act or Regulation and not of a Rule. If s. 6 of the General Clauses Act had been applied no doubt this complaint 'against the two accused for the offence punishable under R. 132A of the D.I.Rs. could have been instituted even after the repeal of that rule.
18.The last case relied upon is 1. K. Gas Plant Manufacturing Co., (Rampur) Ltd. and Others v. The King Emperor(2). In that case, the Federal Court had to deal with the

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e Court cited. with approval the decision in the case of Wicks v. Director of Public Prosecutions(4), and held that, in view s. 1 (4) of the Defence of India Act, 1939, as amended by Ordinance No. XII of 1946, the prosecution for a conviction for an offence committed when the Defence of India Act was in force, was valid even after the Defence of India Act had ceased to be in force. That case is, however, distinguishable from the case (1) A.I.R. 1959 M.P. 93. (2) [1947] F.C.R. 141. (3) A.I.R. 1951 All. 703. (4) (1947) A.C. 362.before us in two respects. In that case, the prosecution had been started before the Defence of India Act ceased to be in force and, secondly, the language introduced in the amended sub-s. (4) of s. 1 of the Act had the effect of making applicable the principles laid down in s. 6 of the General Clauses Act, so that a legal proceeding could be instituted even after the repeal of the Act in respect of an offence committed during the time when the Act was in force. A

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before the omission goes into effect, it cannot be granted afterwards. Savings of the nature contained in Section 6 or in special Acts may modify the position. Thus the operation of repeal or deletion as to the future and the past largely depends on the savings applicable. In a case where a particular provision in a statute is omitted and in its place another provision dealing with the same contingency is ] introduced without a saving clause in favour of pending proceedings then it can be reasonably inferred that the intention of the legislature is that the pending proceeding shall not continue but a fresh proceeding for the same purpose may be initiated under the new provision.”
(iii) Paragraphs 8 and 9 of General Finance Co. and Another (supra):
“8.Though we find the submissions of the learned counsel to be forceful, we are constrained to follow the two decisions of the Constitution Benches of this Court in Messrs Rayala Corporation (P) Ltd. case (supra) and Kolhapur Canesugar Wo

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a provision in an Act but only to repeal, omission being different from repeal as held in the aforesaid decisions. In the Income Tax Act, Section 276DDstood omitted from the Act but not repealed and hence, a prosecution could not have been launched or continued by invoking Section 6 of the General Clauses Act after its omission.”
7. Mr. SC Keyal, learned Assistant SGI in order to substantiate his contention that an omission of the provisions of a statue do not render any proceeding initiated under it to be not maintainable any further, relies upon the provisions of Section 6 A of the General Clauses Act, which is as under:
“[6-A. Repeal of Act making textual amendment in Act or Regulation – Where any [Central Act] or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act repeals any enactment by which the text of any [Central Act] or Regulation was amended by the express omission, insertion or substitution of any matter, then, unless a different intention appears, the repeal shall not

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Act, “omissions” made by the legislature would not be included. Assume, on the other hand, that the Constitution Bench had given two reasons for the non-applicability of Section 6 of the General Clauses Act. In such a situation, obviously both reasons would be ratio decidendi and would be binding upon a subsequent Bench. However, once it is found that Section 6 itself would not apply, it would be wholly superfluous to further state that on an interpretation of the word “repeal”, an “omission” would not be included. We are, therefore,l of the view that the second so-called ratio of the Constitution Bench in Royala Corpn. (P) Ltd. cannot be said to be a ratio decidendi at all and is really in the nature of obiter dicta.
32. Secondly, we find no reference to Section 6-A of the General Clauses Act in either of these Constitution Bench judgments. Section 6-A read as follows:
“6-A. Repeal of Act making textual amendment in act or Regulation- Where any Central Act or Regulation made afte

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, para 21) “… Now, it the legislative intent to supersede the earlier law is the basis upon which the doctrine of implied repeal is founded could there be any incongruity in attributing to the later legislation the same intent which Section 6 presumes where the word 'repeal' is expressly used. So far as statutory construction is concerned, it is one of the cardinal principals of the law that there is no distinction or difference between an express provision and a provision which is necessarily implied, for it is only the form that differs in the two cases and there is no difference in the two cases and there is no difference in intention or in substance. A repeal may be brought about by repugnant legislation, without even any reference to the Act intended to be repealed, for once legislative competence to effect a repeal is posited, it matters little whether this is done expressly or inferentially or by the enactment of repugnant legislation. If such is the basis upon which repeals a

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of U.P. v. Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd., (1991) 4 SCC 139 : (1991) 3 SCR 64, where a Division Bench of this Court held that once particular conclusion of a Bench of seven Judges [Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd. v. State of U.P., (1990) 1 SCC 109] was per incuriam – see: the discussion at SCR pp.80, 81 and 91 : SCC pp. 151, 152 and pp.161-162, paras 36 to 42 of the said judgment.
By necessary implication the same intention as that which would attend the case of an express repeal. Where an intention to effect a repeal is attributed to a legislature then the same would, in our opinion, attract the incident of the saving found in Section 6 for the rules of construction embodied in the General Clauses act are, so to speak, the basic assumptions on which statutes are drafted.” (emphasis supplied.) 35. The two later Constitution Bench judgment also did not have the benefit of the aforesaid exposition of the law. It is clear that even an implied repeal of a statute would fall within the expr

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has been held that Section 6 of the General Clauses Act is inapplicable in the case of omission of a statute for two reasons that Section 6 applies only in respect of repeals and not omissions and it applies when the repeal is of a Central Act or Regulation and not that of a Rule. Reliance has also been placed upon paragraph 18 of Rayala Corporaion (P) Ltd (supra), wherein a conclusion of the Allahabad High Court in the case of Seth Jugmendar Das and Others is referred to the effect that Section 6 of the General Clauses Act applies only to a repealed statute and not to expiring statues and that the general rules with regard to expiry of a temporary statute is that unless it contains some special provisions to the contrary after the temporary Act has expired, no proceedings can be taken upon it and it ceases to have any further effect.
10. From the aforesaid propositions made in paragraph 17 of Rayala Corporaion (P) Ltd (supra) it is discernible that Section 6 of the General Clauses Ac

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ing observation in Rayala Corporaion (P) Ltd (supra) and in Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) that Section 6 of the General Clauses Act only applies to repeals and not to omissions, needs a reconstruction as omission of a provision results in abrogation or obliteration of that provision in the same way as it happens in a repeal.
13. The aforesaid aspect that Section 6 of the General Clauses Act applies only to repeals and not to omissions, and, therefore, in the event, a statute is omitted the pending proceedings initiated under it can no further be proceeded, and that such proposition laid down in Rayala Corporaion (P) Ltd (supra) and in Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) needs a reconstruction was considered by the Supreme Court in Fibre Board Pvt. Ltd. (supra).
In paragraph 29 of the judgment rendered in Fibre Board Pvt. Ltd. (supra), the aforesaid view expressed in the Principles of Statutory Interpretation by Justice GP Singh was taken note of.
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Section 6 of the General Clauses Act does not apply to a Rule but only apply to a Central Act or Regulation and that Section 6 itself would apply only to a repeal and not to omission would have been considered as a ratio decidendi, but once it was found that Section 6 itself would not apply, therefore, it would be superfluous to state that the interpretation of the word 'repeal' would not include an omission. Accordingly, the Supreme Court was of the view that the second reasoning in Rayala Corporaion (P) Ltd (supra) that Section 6 of the General Clauses Act would apply only to a repeal and not to an omission would not be ratio decidendi at all and that it really is in the nature of an obiter dicta.
16. In paragraph 32 of Fibre Board Pvt. Ltd (supra) the Supreme Court also took note of the provisions of Section 6-A of the General Clauses Act which provides that where any Central Act or Regulation repeals any enactment by which the text of any Central Act or Regulation was amended by a

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and to that extent, the law that is applicable to the repeal of an enactment would also be applicable to that of an omission and no distinction can be made between the two. Thirdly, the proposition as regards inapplicability of Section 6 of the General Clauses Act in respect of an omission of an enactment resulting in an impermissibility to continue further a proceeding that had been initiated under omitted enactment, merely based upon the proposition laid down in Rayala Corporaion (P) Ltd (supra) and in Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) would also have to be looked from the perspective of the provisions of Section 6-A of the General Clauses Act and to that extent as has held in Fibre Board Pvt. Ltd (supra), the propositions laid down in Rayala Corporation (P) Ltd (supra) and in Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) are per incuriam judgments.
19. From the said point of view, the contention raised by Mr. SC Keyal, learned Assistant SGI that the provisions of Section 6-A of the Gen

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ry, learned Senior counsel that the pronouncement in Rayala and Kolhapur being a decision by the Constitution Bench would prevail over the pronouncement in FibreBoard Pvt. Ltd.(supra). The said contention of the learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner would have to be looked into from the point of view as to whether the decision rendered in FibreBoard Pvt. Ltd. is a decision which is in conflict with the view expressed in Rayala Corporation (P) Ltd (supra) and in Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra).
21. To that extent, we take note of paragraph 30 of FibreBoard Pvt. Ltd, wherein the Supreme Court was conscious of the fact that in the event, a conflicting view is to be taken to an earlier pronouncement by a larger bench, it requires a reference to a larger bench. While dealing with the proposition laid down in Rayala Corporation (P) Ltd (supra) and in Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra), the Supreme Court was conscious of the aspect of referring the matter to a larger bench, but

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that the pronouncement in Rayala Corporation (P) Ltd (supra) and in Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra).
24. Whenever there is a conflict between the decision by a larger bench and that of a smaller bench, as provided in paragraph 22 of Ram Chandra Trivedi (supra) a view expressed by the larger bench is to be taken into consideration by ignoring the view taken by the smaller bench. But the said proposition would have to be viewed from a different perspective when the provisions of the smaller bench clarifies the earlier proposition of the larger bench where such clarification by itself cannot lead to a conclusion that there is a conflict between the views expressed by the larger bench and the smaller bench.
25. The Division Bench of the Supreme Court in Fibre Board Pvt. Ltd., (supra) had deliberated, discussed and explained the proposition laid down in Rayala Corporation (P) Ltd (supra) and in Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) and it is not a case where a contrary view had bee

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as to the future and the past largely depend upon the savings applicable. It also provided that in a case where a particular provision in a statute is omitted and in its place another provision dealing with the same contingency is entrusted without the savings clause in favour of the pending proceedings, it can be reasonably inferred that the intention of the legislature is that the pending proceeding shall not continue, although a fresh proceeding for the same purpose may be initiated under the new provision.
28. In other words, the proposition laid down in paragraph 37 of Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) is that the continuance of a further proceeding under an omitted Act depends upon as to whether a savings clause is provided in the enactment by which the earlier enactment was omitted. In the instant case, it is taken note of that the provisions of Chapter V of the Finance Act of 1994 were omitted by Section 173 of the CGST Act of 2017, where Section 173 is under the heading

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or enforced as if the Act had not been so amended or repealed.
30. The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) had also referred and followed the earlier pronouncement of the Constitution Bench in Rayala Corporation (P) Ltd (supra) and, therefore, the proposition laid down in paragraph 37 of Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) can either be a clarification or it can be argued to be in conflict with the pronouncement in paragraph 17 of Rayala Corporation (P) Ltd (supra). Even if it is taken to be a conflict, but the decision having been rendered by a Bench of equal strength, the proposition that is more appealing is to be taken into consideration. The proposition in paragraph 37 of Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) providing that the proceedings under an omitted enactment continues to remain in the event of there being a savings clause in the enactment bringing about such omission appears to be more appealing that the proposition in Rayal

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visions laid down by the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in paragraph 37 of Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra).
32. As already elucidated hereinabove, paragraph 37 of Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) provides that if a statute stood omitted with a savings clause, the savings clause would not render it impermissible for the proceedings initiated/to be initiated under Chapter V of the Finance Act of 1994, which stood omitted by Section 173 of the CGST Act of 2017 to be continued.
33. A conjoint reading of the provisions laid down in paragraph 37 of Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd. (supra) and Section 173 and 174(2)(e) would lead to a conclusion that although Chapter V of the Finance Act of 1994 stood omitted under Section 173, but the savings clause provided under Section 174(2)(e) will enable the continuation of the investigation, enquiry, verification etc., that were made/to be made under Chapter V of the Finance Act of 1994.
34. In view of such conclusion, we find the

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Modification of the procedure for interception of conveyances for inspection of goods in movement, and detention, release and confiscation of such goods and conveyances, as clarified in Circular conveyed vide Memo no.1761/GST-2, dated 04.06.2018

Modification of the procedure for interception of conveyances for inspection of goods in movement, and detention, release and confiscation of such goods and conveyances, as clarified in Circular conveyed vide Memo no.1761/GST-2, dated 04.06.2018.
Memo No. 500/GST-2 Dated:- 12-10-2018 Haryana SGST
GST – States
From
Excise & Taxation Commissioner,
Haryana, Panchkula.
To
All the Dy. Excise & Taxation Commissioner (ST), in the State of Haryana.
Memo No. 500/GST-2
Panchkula, date the 12-10-2018
HARYANA GOVERNMENT
EXCISE AND TAXATION DEPARTMENT
Subject: Modification of the procedure for interception of conveyances for inspection of goods in movement, and detention, release and confiscation of such goods and conveyances, as

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g days” may be replaced by the expression “three days”;
(ii) The statement after paragraph 3 in FORM GST MOV-05 should read as:
“In view of the above, the goods and conveyance(s) are hereby released on (DD/MM/YYYY)at_____AM/PM.”
3.0 Further, it is stated that as per rule 138C (2) of the Haryana Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, where the physical verification Of goods being transported on any Conveyance has been done during transit at one place within the State or in any Other State or Union territory, no further physical verification Of the said conveyance shall be carried out again in the State unless a specific information relating to evasion of tax is made available subsequently. Since the requisite FORMS are not available on the

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ty-five consignments is intercepted and the person-in-charge of such conveyance produces valid e-way bills and/or other relevant documents in respect of twenty consignments, but is unable to produce the same with respect to the remaining five consignments, detention/confiscation can be made only with respect to the five consignments and the conveyance in respect of which the violation of the Act or the rules made thereunder has been established by the proper officer.
4. Difficulty, if any, in implementation of this Circular may please be brought to the notice of the Department.
ASHIMA BRAR
& Taxation Commissioner-cum-
Commissioner of State Tax, Haryana
Dated:
Panchkula
Circular, Trade Notice, Public Notice, Instructionsor Offic

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Modification of the procedure for interception of conveyances for inspection of goods in movement, and detention, release and confiscation of such goods and conveyances, as clarified in Circular conveyed vide Memo no.1761/GST-2, dated 04.06.2018

Modification of the procedure for interception of conveyances for inspection of goods in movement, and detention, release and confiscation of such goods and conveyances, as clarified in Circular conveyed vide Memo no.1761/GST-2, dated 04.06.2018.
Memo No. 506/GST-2 Dated:- 12-10-2018 Haryana SGST
GST – States
HARYANA GOVERNMENT
EXCISE AND TAXATION DEPARTMENT
From
Excise & Taxation Commissioner,
Haryana, Panchkula.
To
All the Dy. Excise & Taxation Commissioner (ST), in the State of Haryana.
Memo No. 506/GST-2
Panchkula, date the 12-10-2018
Subject: Modification of the procedure for interception of conveyances for inspection of goods in movement, and detention, release and confiscation of such goods and conveyances, as clarified in Circular conveyed vide Memo no.1761/GST-2, dated 04.06.2018.
The procedure for interception of conveyances for inspection of goods in movement, and detention, release and confiscation of such goods and conveyances was specified vide Mem

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llan/bill of entry and a valid e-way bill in the manner as detailed in the instruction (b) of the Circular dated 04.06.2018 for verification. In case such person does not carry the mentioned documents, there is no doubt that a contravention of the provisions of the law takes place and the provisions of section 129 and section 130 of the HGST Act are invocable. Further, it may be noted that the non-furnishing of information in Part B of FORM GST EWB-01 amounts to the e-way bill becoming not a valid document for the movement of goods by road as per Explanation (2) to rule 138(3) of the HGST Rules, except in the case where the goods are transported for a distance of upto fifty kilometres within the State to or from the place of business of the transporter to the place of business of the consignor or the consignee, as the case may be.
4. Whereas, section 129 of the HGST Act provides for detention and seizure of goods and conveyances and their release on the payment of requisite tax and pe

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d not have the effect of increasing the validity period of the e-way bill;
c) Error in the address of the consignee to the extent that the locality and other details of the consignee are correct;
d) Error in One or two digits of the document number mentioned in the e-way bill;
e) Error in 4 or 6 digit level of HSN where the first 2 digits of HSN are correct and the rate of tax mentioned is correct;
f) Error in one or two digits/characters of the vehicle number.
6. In case of the above situations, penalty to the tune of ₹ 500/- each under section 125 of the HGST Act and the CGST Act should be imposed (Rs. 1000/- under the IGST Act) in FORM GST DRC-07 for every consignment. A record of all such consignments where proceedings under section 1 29 of the HGST Act have not been invoked in view of the situations listed in paragraph 5 above shall be sent by the proper Officer to his District Incharge (DETC) on a weekly basis.
7. Difficulty, if any, in implementation of this Cir

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M/s. Saraf Natural Stone Versus Union of India

M/s. Saraf Natural Stone Versus Union of India
GST
2018 (10) TMI 998 – GUJARAT HIGH COURT – 2018 (19) G. S. T. L. J74 (Guj.)
GUJARAT HIGH COURT – HC
Dated:- 12-10-2018
R/SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 15925 of 2018
GST
Mr. AKIL KURESHI AND Mr. B.N. KARIA JJ.
Appearance :
Mr. VINAY SHRAFF, Sr Advocate with Mr VISHAL J DAVE; Mr NIPUN SINGHVI; Mr. PRATEEK GATTANI & Ms. HIRAL U MEHTA, Advocates for the PETITIONERS for the RESPONDENT(s) No. 1,2,3
ORAL (PER : Mr. AKIL KURESHI)

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West Bengal Goods and Services Tax (Eleventh Amendment) Rules, 2018

West Bengal Goods and Services Tax (Eleventh Amendment) Rules, 2018
1505-F.T. Dated:- 12-10-2018 West Bengal SGST
GST – States
West Bengal SGST
West Bengal SGST
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
REVENUE
NOTIFICATION
No. 1505-F.T.
Howrah, the 12th day of October, 2018
No. 53/2018-State Tax
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 164 of the West Bengal Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (West Ben. Act XXVIII of 2017), the Governor is pleased hereby to make the following rules further to amend the West Bengal Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, namely: –
1. (1) These rules may be called the West Bengal Goods and Services Tax (Eleventh Amendment) Rules, 2018.
(2) They shall be deemed to have come into f

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ary, Part I or notification No. 41/2017-Integrated Tax (Rate), dated the 23rd October, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 1321 (E), dated the 23rd October, 2017 or notification No. 78/2017-Customs, dated the 13th October, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 1272(E), dated the 13th October, 2017 or notification No. 79/2017-Customs, dated the 13th October, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 1299 (E) dated the 13th October, 2017.".
By order of the Governor,
RAJSEKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY
Additional Secretary to the Gove

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West Bengal Goods and Services Tax (Twelfth Amendment) Rules, 2018

West Bengal Goods and Services Tax (Twelfth Amendment) Rules, 2018
1506-F.T. Dated:- 12-10-2018 West Bengal SGST
GST – States
West Bengal SGST
West Bengal SGST
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
REVENUE
NOTIFICATION
No. 1506-F.T.
Howrah, the 12th day of October, 2018.
No. 54/2018-State Tax
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 164 of the West Bengal Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (West Ben. Act XXVIII of 2017), the Governor is pleased hereby to make the following rules further to amend the West Bengal Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, namely: –
1. (1) These rules may be called the West Bengal Goods and Services Tax (Twelfth Amendment) Rules, 2018.
(2) They shall be deemed to have come into fo

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Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 1321(E), dated the 23rd October, 2017; or
(b) availed the benefit of notification No. 78/2017-Customs, dated the 13th October, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 1272(E), dated the 13th October, 2017 or notification No. 79/2017-Customs, dated the 13th October, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 1299(E), dated the 13th October, 2017,
the refund of input tax credit, availed in respect of inputs received under the said notifications for export of goods and the input tax credit availed in respect of other inputs or input services to the extent used in making

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on No. 41/2017-Integrated Tax (Rate), dated the 23rd October, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 1321 (E), dated the 23rd October, 2017 has been availed; or
(b) availed the benefit under notification No. 78/2017-Customs, dated the 13th October, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 1272(E), dated the 13th October, 2017 or notification No. 79/2017-Customs, dated the 13th October, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 1299 (E), dated the 13th October, 2017 except so far it relates to receipt of capital goods by such person

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Tripura State Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018.

Tripura State Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018.
TRIPURA ORDINANCE NO. 4 OF 2018 Dated:- 12-10-2018 Tripura SGST
GST – States
Tripura SGST
Tripura SGST
GOVERNMENT OF TRIPURA
LAW DEPARTMENT
SECRETARIAT : AGARTALA
No.F. 8(12)-Law/Leg-I/2018/_________
Dated, Agartala, the 12th October, 2018.
NOTIFICATION
The following Ordinance is promulgated by the Governor of Tripura on the 12th October, 2018 and is hereby published for General Information.
D. M. Jamatia
L.R. & Secretary, Law
Government of Tripura
THE TRIPURA STATE GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2018
Promulgated by the Governor of Tripura in the sixty-ninth year of the Republic of India.
An ordinance further to amend the Tripura State Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (Tripura Act No. 9 of 2017).
WHEREAS the Legislative Assembly of Tripura is not in session and the Governor is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action;
NOW, T

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brackets and figures "the Appellate Authority, the Appellate Tribunal and the Authority referred to in sub-section (2) of section 171" shall be substituted;
(2) in clause (16), for the words "Central Board of Excise and Customs", the words "Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs" shall be substituted;
(3) in clause (17), for sub-clause (h), the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely:-
"(h) activities of a race club including by way of totalisator or a license to book maker or activities of a licensed book maker in such club; and";
(4) clause (18) shall be omitted;
(5) in clause (35), for the word, brackets and letter "clause (c)", the word, brackets and letter "clause (b)" shall be substituted;
(6) in clause (69), in sub-clause (f), after the word and figures "article 371", the words, figures and letter "and article 371J" shall be inserted;
(7) in clause (102), the following Ex

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1), they shall be treated either as supply of goods or supply of services as referred to in Schedule II.";
(3) in sub-section (3), for the words, brackets and figures "sub-sections (1) and (2)", the words, brackets, figures and letter "sub-sections (1), (1A) and (2)" shall be substituted.
4. Amendment of section 9.- In section 9 of the principal Act, for sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-
"(4) The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, by notification, specify a class of registered persons who shall, in respect of supply of specified categories of goods or services or both received from an unregistered supplier, pay the tax on reverse charge basis as the recipient of such supply of goods or services or both, and all the provisions of this Act shall apply to such recipient as if he is the person liable for paying the tax in relation to such supply of goods or services or both.".
5. Amendment

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2) in sub-section (2), for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-
"(a) save as provided in sub-section (1), he is not engaged in the supply of services;".
6. Amendment of section 12.- In section 12 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), in clause (a), the words, brackets and figure "sub-section (1) of" shall be omitted.
7. Amendment of section 13.- In section 13 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), the words, brackets and figure "sub-section (2) of" occurring at both the places, shall be omitted.
8. Amendment of section 16.- In section 16 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2),-
(1) in clause (b), for the Explanation, the following Explanation shall be substituted, namely:-
"Explanation.-For the purposes of this clause, it shall be deemed that the registered person has received the goods or, as the case may be, services-
(i) where the goods are delivered by the supplier to a recipient or any other person o

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a) motor vehicles for transportation of persons having approved seating capacity of not more than thirteen persons (including the driver), except when they are used for making the following taxable supplies, namely:-
(A) further supply of such motor vehicles; or
(B) transportation of passengers; or
(C) imparting training on driving such motor vehicles;
(aa) vessels and aircraft except when they are used-
(i) for making the following taxable supplies, namely:-
(A) further supply of such vessels or aircraft; or
(B) transportation of passengers; or
(C) imparting training on navigating such vessels; or
(D) imparting training on flying such aircraft;
(ii) for transportation of goods;
(ab) services of general insurance, servicing, repair and maintenance in so far as they relate to motor vehicles, vessels or aircraft referred to in clause (a) or clause (aa):
Provided that the input tax credit in respect of such services shall be available-
(i) where the motor vehicle

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an element of a taxable composite or mixed supply;
(ii) membership of a club, health and fitness centre; and
(iii) travel benefits extended to employees on vacation such as leave or home travel concession:
Provided that the input tax credit in respect of such goods or services or both shall be available, where it is obligatory for an employer to provide to its employees under any law for the time being in force.".
10. Amendment of section 20.- In section 20 of the principal Act, in the Explanation, in clause (c), for the words and figures "under entry 84,", the words, figures and letter "under entries 84 and 92A" shall be substituted.
11. Amendment of section 22.- In section 22 of the principal Act,
(1) in sub-section (1), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
"Provided that where such person makes taxable supplies of goods or services or both from a special category State in respect of which the Central Government has enhanced the

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ral Act 28 of 2005), in a Special Economic Zone or being a Special Economic Zone developer shall have to apply for a separate registration, as distinct from his place of business located outside the Special Economic Zone in the State.";
(2) in sub-section (2), for the proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:-
"Provided that a person having multiple places of business in the State may be granted a separate registration for each such place of business, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.".
14. Amendment of section 29.- In section 29 of the principal Act,
(1) in the heading after the word "Cancellation", the words "or suspension‖ shall be inserted;
(2) in sub-section (1), after clause (c), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
"Provided that during pendency of the proceedings relating to cancellation of registration filed by the registered person, the registration may be suspended for such per

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s for supplies made in a financial year" shall be substituted.
16. Amendment of section 35.- In section 35 of the principal Act, in sub-section (5), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
"Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall apply to any department of the Central Government or a State Government or a local authority, whose books of account are subject to audit by the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India or an auditor appointed for auditing the accounts of local authorities under any law for the time being in force.".
17. Amendment of section 39.- In section 39 of the principal Act,-
(1) in sub-section (1),-
(a) for the words "in such form and manner as may be prescribed", the words "in such form, manner and within such time as may be prescribed" shall be substituted;
(b) the words "on or before the twentieth day of the month succeeding such calendar month or part thereof" shall be omitted;
(c)

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be substituted;
(b) in the proviso, for the words "the end of the financial year‖, the words "the end of the financial year to which such details pertain" shall be substituted.
18. Insertion of section 43A.- After section 43 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:-
“43A. Procedure for furnishing return and availing input tax credit. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) of section 16, section 37 or section 38, every registered person shall in the returns furnished under sub-section (1) of section 39 verify, validate, modify or delete the details of supplies furnished by the suppliers.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 41, section 42 or section 43, the procedure for availing of input tax credit by the recipient and verification thereof shall be such as may be prescribed.
(3) The procedure for furnishing the details of outward supplies by the supplier on the common portal, for the purposes of

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nished.
(7) For the purposes of sub-section (6), the recovery shall be made in such manner as may be prescribed and such procedure may provide for non-recovery of an amount of tax or input tax credit wrongly availed not exceeding one thousand rupees.
(8) The procedure, safeguards and threshold of the tax amount in relation to outward supplies, the details of which can be furnished under sub-section (3) by a registered person,-
(a) within six months of taking registration;
(b) who has defaulted in payment of tax and where such default has continued for more than two months from the due date of payment of such defaulted amount, shall be such as may be prescribed.”.
19. Amendment of section 48.- In section 48 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), after the word and figures "section 45", the words "and to perform such other functions" shall be inserted.
20. Amendment of section 49.- In section 49 of the principal Act,-
(1) in sub-section (2), for the wor

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n conditions.- Notwithstanding anything contained in section 49, the input tax credit on account of State tax shall be utilised towards payment of integrated tax or State tax, as the case may be, only after the input tax credit available on account of integrated tax has first been utilised fully towards such payment.
49B. Order of utilisation of the input tax credit.- Notwithstanding anything contained in this Chapter and subject to the provisions of clause (e) and clause (f) of sub-section (5) of section 49, the Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, prescribe the order and manner of utilisation of the input tax credit on account of integrated tax, central tax, State tax or Union territory tax, as the case may be, towards payment of any such tax.".
22. Amendment of section 52.- In section 52 of the principal Act, in sub-section (9), for the word and figures "section 37", the words and figures "section 37 or section 39" shall be substituted.

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word person shall include "distinct persons" as referred to in sub-section (4) or, as the case may be, sub-section (5) of section 25.'.
25. Amendment of section 107.- In section 107 of the principal Act, in sub-section (6), in clause (b), after the words "arising from the said order,", the words "subject to a maximum of twenty-five crore rupees," shall be inserted.
26. Amendment of section 112.- In section 112 of the principal Act, in sub-section (8), in clause (b), after the words "arising from the said order,‖ the words "subject to a maximum of fifty crore rupees," shall be inserted.
27. Amendment of section 129.- In section 129 of the principal Act, in sub-section (6), for the words "seven days" occurring at both the places, the words "fourteen days" shall be substituted.
28. Amendment of section 143.- In section 143 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), in clause (b), after the proviso, the following pr

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In Re: M/s. Modern Food Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.

In Re: M/s. Modern Food Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
GST
2018 (11) TMI 279 – AUTHORITY FOR ADVANCE RULINGS, KERALA – 2018 (18) G. S. T. L. 837 (A. A. R. – GST)
AUTHORITY FOR ADVANCE RULINGS, KERALA – AAR
Dated:- 12-10-2018
AAR No. KER/23/2018
GST
SHRI. B.G. KRISHNAN IRS AND SHRI B.S. THYAGARAJABABU B.Sc., LLM, MEMBER
Authorized Representative: Adv. Lalitendra Gulani
Applicant is a manufacturer of 'Classic Malabar Parota' & 'Whole Wheat Malabar Parota'. The major ingredients are wheat atta, Edible vegetable oil, Milk solids, Sugar, Salt, Yeast etc. According to them, these products qualify as bread classifiable under Heading 1905 and eligible for GST exemption. Hence the applicant requested advance ruling on the following:
i) Classification of 'Classic Malabar Parota' and 'Whole Wheat Malabar Parota'.
ii) Eligibility Of exemption from GST vide Notification No. 2/2017 – Central Tax/ SRO No.361/2017.
The authorized representative was heard. It is stated that 'Parotta

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lour, Edible vegetable oil, Milk solids, Sugar, Salt are in the nature of Parotta. 'Classic Malabar Parota' is unleavened, 'Whole Wheat Malabar Parota' is leavened with yeast. The impugned goods being in the nature of parotta qualify as flatbread, sold in packed form. In Kayani & Company v. CST [AIR 1953 Hyd 252] Karnataka High Court = 1953 (3) TMI 17 – HYDERABAD, HIGH COURT observed that, term 'bread' includes all forms of bread which are prepared by moistening, kneading, baking, frying or roasting meal or flour, with or without addition of yeast. Therefore parotta is a variant of bread squarely covered under entry 97 of Notification No.2/2017 – Central Tax/SRO. No.361/2017. Moreover the FSSAI certification classified these items as bread. It is also stated that bread is a general entry which forms d genus, comprising of various species within its ambit. Therefore parotta is a species of bread and the same is eligible for exemption.
The authority examined the case meticulously. Bread

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hem are used as food. Therefore the exemption given to the pecific commodity under GST tariff 'Bread branded or otherwise' is eo nomine exclusively covered under HSN 1905. It has no wider scope to incorporate different food stuff prepared using wheat flour.
As per Schedule III of GST Laws, vide Heading 2106 'Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included' is taxable @18% GST. There is specific exclusions from this heading, for 'Khakhra, Plain Chapatti or Roti, Idli / Dosa batter, and included under 5% category. Even though 'Chapati' is unleavened flatbread prepared from whole wheat flour or maida, it is specifically included under heading 2106 and reduced the tax rate from 18% to 5%.Therefore the word 'Food Preparations' connotes preparations for use, either directly or after processing such as cooking for human consumption. Therefore all food preparations which are not specifically mentioned in any other entry squarely comes under Heading 2106. The plain language used in the h

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