GST update on credit of eligible duties and taxes in respect of inputs held in stock to be allowed in certain situations
By: – Pradeep Jain
Goods and Services Tax – GST
Dated:- 29-12-2016
GST DAILY DOSE OF UPDATION
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS-PART-III
169. Credit of eligible duties and taxes in respect of inputs held in stock to be allowed in certain situations
This provision intends to enable the taxable person to avail the cenvat of duties and taxes in respect of inputs held in stock subject to certain conditions. The provision reads as follows:
(1) A registered taxable person, who was not liable to be registered under the earlier law, or who was engaged in the manufacture of exempted goods or provision of exempted services, or who was providing works contract service and was availing of the benefit of notification No. 26/2012-Service Tax, dated 20.06.2012 or a first stage dealer or a second stage dealer or a registered importer, shall be entitled to take, in his elec
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as only extended to registered taxable person engaged in manufacture of exempted goods or a person not liable to register under the earlier law. Now this provision has been extended to such persons also who are engaged in provision of exempted services, or who was providing works contract service and was availing of the benefit of notification No. 26/2012-Service Tax, dated 20.06.2012 or a first stage dealer or a second stage dealer or a registered importer. Interestingly, works contract service has been linked with notification no. 26/2012 which is an abatement notification. This notification does not prescribe any abatement for works contract service. It seems that there is a clerical error. There can be two intentions behind the same. First is to allow the credit to works contract only as they are getting credit of input services only in current regime. Hence, the credit of inputs lying in stock should be allowed. Only the notification is wrongly quoted. The second intention could b
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ices and not the credit allowed. Hence, this condition may prove difficult to adhere to and to prove. This will lead to uncalled litigation as revenue department in each and every case will ask the assessee to prove that the price is reduced.
Another condition no. (v) has been inserted to provide that any supplier of service intending to avail benefit of this provision should not be eligible for any abatement under the new act. But there is no abatement provision in proposed revised GST law. We are failed to understand the meaning of this provision. It may imply that there are going to bring abatements in new law also. It is welcome step but it is again going against the concept of GST of one rate of tax. We are already seeing four rates along with cess as well as separate rate for Gold. The abatements will also add to number of rates in GST.
Apart from this a new proviso has been inserted to this provision to provide that any registered taxable person apart from a manufacturer or a
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