GST – Concept & Status – AS ON 1st May, 2019
GST
Dated:- 3-5-2019
GOODS AND SERVICE TAX (GST)
CONCEPT & STATUS
CENTRAL BOARD OF INDIRECT TAXES AND CUSTOMS (CBIC)
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
AS ON 01st May, 2019
The uniform system of taxation, which, with a few exceptions of no great consequence, takes place in all the different parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, leaves the interior commerce of the country, the inland and coasting trade, almost entirely free. The inland trade is almost perfectly free, and the greater part of goods may be carried from one end of the kingdom to the other, without requiring any permit or let-pass, without being subject to question, visit, or examination from the revenue officers. ……This freedom of interior commerce, the effect of uniformity of the system of taxation, is perhaps one of the principal causes of the prosperity of Great Britain; every great country being necessarily
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ME OF INDIRECT TAXATION IN INDIA BEFORE GST :
2.1 Article 265 of the Constitution of India provides that no tax shall be levied or collected except by authority of law. As per Article 246 of the Constitution, Parliament has exclusive powers to make laws in respect of matters given in Union List (List I of the Seventh Schedule) and State Government has the exclusive jurisdiction to legislate on the matters containing in State List (List II of the Seventh Schedule). In respect of the matters contained in Concurrent List (List III of the Seventh Schedule), both the Central Government and State Governments have concurrent powers to legislate.
2.2 Before advent of GST, the most important sources of indirect tax revenue for the Union were customs duty (entry 83 of Union List), central excise duty (entry 84 of Union List), and service tax (entry 97 of Union List). Although entry 92C was inserted in the Union List of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution by the Constitution (Eighty-eigh
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by the Union.
3. HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF INDIRECT TAXATION IN POSTINDEPENDENCE INDIA TILL GST:
3.1 In post-Independence period, central excise duty was levied on a few commodities which were in the nature of raw materials and intermediate inputs, and consumer goods were outside the net by and large. The first set of reform was suggested by the Taxation Enquiry Commission (1953-54) under the chairmanship of Dr. John Matthai. The Commission recommended that sales tax should be used specifically by the States as a source of revenue with Union governments' intervention allowed generally only in case of inter-State sales. It also recommended levy of a tax on inter-State sales subject to a ceiling of 1%, which the States would administer and also retain the revenue.
3.2 The power to levy tax on sale and purchase of goods in the course of interState trade and commerce was assigned to the Union by the Constitution (Sixth Amendment) Act, 1956. By mid-1970s, central excise duty was ext
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996-97.
3.4 The next wave of reform in indirect tax sphere came with the New Economic Policy of 1991. The Tax Reforms Committee under the chairmanship of Prof. Raja J Chelliah was appointed in 1991. This Committee recommended broadening of the tax base by taxing services and pruning exemptions, consolidation and lowering of rates, extension of MODVAT on all inputs including capital goods. It suggested that reform of tax structure must have to be accompanied by a reform of tax administration, if complete benefits were to be derived from the tax reforms. Many of the recommendations of the Chelliah Committee were implemented. In 1999-2000, tax rates were merged in three rates, with additional rates on a few luxury goods. In 2000-01, three rates were merged into one rate called Central Value Added Tax (CENVAT). A few commodities were subjected to special excise duty.
3.5 Taxation of services by the Union was introduced in 1994 bringing in its ambit only three services, namely general i
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sales tax on different commodities in different States. Rates of sales tax were more than ten in some States and these varied for the same commodity in different States. Inter-state sales were subjected to levy of Central Sales Tax. As this tax was appropriated by the exporting State credit was not allowed by the dealer in the importing State. This resulted into exportation of tax from richer to poorer states and also cascading of taxes. Interestingly, States had power of taxation over services from the very beginning. States levied tax on advertisements, luxuries, entertainments, amusements, betting and gambling.
3.7 A report, titled "Reform of Domestic Trade Taxes in India", on reforming indirect taxes, especially State sales tax, by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy under the leadership of Dr. Amaresh Bagchi, was prepared in 1994. This Report prepared the ground for implementation of VAT in States. Some of the key recommendations were; replacing sales tax
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h was later made the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers (EC). Haryana was the first State to implement VAT, in 2003. In 2005, VAT was implemented in most of the states. Uttar Pradesh was the last State to implement VAT, from 1st January, 2008.
4. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON GST / VAT:
4.1 VAT and GST are used inter-changeably as the latter denotes comprehensiveness of VAT by coverage of goods and services. France was the first country to implement VAT, in 1954. Presently, more than 160 countries have implemented GST / VAT in some form or the other. The most popular form of VAT is where taxes paid on inputs are allowed to be adjusted in the liability at the output. The VAT or GST regime in practice varies from one country to another in terms of its technical aspects like 'definition of supply', 'extent of coverage of goods and services', 'treatment of exemptions and zero rating' etc. However, at a broader level, it has one common principle, it i
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unique model of taxation in which certain provinces have joined federal GST and others have not. Provinces which administer their taxes separately are called 'non- participating provinces', whereas provinces which have teamed up with the Federal Government for tax administration are called 'participating provinces'.
4.3 The rate of GST varies across countries. While Malaysia has a lower rate of 6% (Malaysia though scrapped GST in 2018 due to popular uproar against it), Hungary has one of the highest rate of 27%. Australia levies GST at the rate of 10% whereas Canada has multiple rate slabs. The average rate of VAT across the EU is around 19.5%.
5. NEED FOR GST IN INDIA:
5.1 The introduction of CENVAT removed to a great extent cascading burden by expanding the coverage of credit for all inputs, including capital goods. CENVAT scheme later also allowed credit of services and the basket of inputs, capital goods and input services could be used for payment of both centra
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terms of its cascading nature. It was also against one of the basic principles of consumption taxes that tax should accrue to the jurisdiction where consumption takes place. Despite remarkable harmonization in VAT regimes under the auspices of the EC, the national market was fragmented with too many obstacles in free movement of goods necessitated by procedural requirement under VAT and CST.
5.4 In the constitutional scheme, taxation powers on goods was with Central Government but it was limited upto the stage of manufacture and production while States have powers to tax sale and purchase of goods. Centre had powers to tax services and States also had powers to tax certain services specified in clause (29A) of Article 366 of the Constitution. This sort of division of taxing powers created a grey zone which led to legal disputes. Determination of what constitutes a goods or service is difficult because in modern complex system of production, a product is normally a mixture of goods an
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e year 2000, the then Prime Minister introduced the concept of GST and set up a committee to design a GST model for the country. In 2003, the Central Government formed a taskforce on Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management, which in 2004 recommended GST to replace the existing tax regime by introducing a comprehensive tax on all goods and services replacing Central level VAT and State level VATs. It recommended replacing all indirect taxes except the customs duty with value added tax on all goods and services with complete set off in all stages of the value chain. An announcement was made by the then Union Finance Minister in Budget (2006-07) to the effect that GST would be introduced with effect from April 1, 2010 and that the EC, on his request, would work with the Central Government to prepare a road map for introduction of GST in India. After this announcement, the EC decided to set up a Joint Working Group in May 10, 2007, with the then Adviser to the Union Finance Minister an
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enue of Union Finance Ministry. With the modifications duly made, a final version of the views of EC on the model and road map for the GST was prepared (April 30, 2008). These views of EC were then sent to the Government of India, and the comments of Government of India were received on December 12, 2008. These comments were duly considered by the EC (December 16, 2008), and it was decided that a Committee of Principal Secretaries/Secretaries of Finance/Taxation and Commissioners of Trade Taxes of the States would be set up to consider these comments, and submit their views. These views were submitted and were accepted in principle by the EC (January 21, 2009). Based on discussions within the EC and between the EC and the Central Government, the EC released its First Discussion Paper (FDP) on GST in November, 2009. This spelled out the features of the proposed GST and has formed the basis for discussion between the Centre and the States.
7. CHALLENGES IN DESIGNING GST:
7.1 In the d
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7.2.1 An argument put forward on behalf of producing states in support of origin based taxation is that they need to collect at least some tax from inter-State sales in order to recover the cost of infrastructure and public services provided by the State Governments to the industries producing the goods which are consumed in other states. This line of reasoning is based on the assumption that in the absence of a tax on inter-State sales, the location of export industries within their jurisdiction would not contribute to the tax revenues of the exporting state. This view was missing the fact that any value addition in a jurisdiction necessarily means extra income in the hands of the residents of that jurisdiction. Spending of this income on consumer goods expands the sales tax base of the producing states and thereby contributes to their revenues. In fact, to the extent that consumer expenditures are dependent on the level of income of the residents of a State, it is the producing Sta
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ds and services. In practice, there will be a structure of rates, but for the sake of analytical clarity and precision it is appropriate to think of the RNR as a single rate. It is a given single rate that gets converted into a whole rate structure, depending on policy choices about exemptions, what commodities to charge at a lower rate and what to charge at a very high rate.
7.3.2 The Committee recommended RNR of 15-15.5% (to be levied by the Centre and States combined). The lower rates (to be applied to certain goods consumed by the poor) should be 12%. Further, the sin or demerit rates (to be applied on luxury cars, aerated beverages, pan masala, and tobacco) should be 40%.
7.4 Dispute Settlement: A harmonized system of taxation necessarily required that all stakeholders stick to the decisions taken by the supreme body, which was later constituted as the Goods and Services Tax Council (the Council). However, the possibility of departure from the recommendations of such body cann
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to revenue of States. As States were uncertain about impact of GST on their finances and moreover loss of autonomy in collection of tax revenue, States unanimously argued for exclusion of these products from the ambit of GST. In the 115th Amendment Bill alcoholic liquor for human consumption and five petroleum products namely crude petroleum, high speed diesel, motor spirit or petrol, aviation turbine fuel and natural gas were kept out of GST. But in the 122nd Amendment Bill, only alcoholic liquor for human consumption was kept outside GST and above mentioned five petroleum products were proposed to be brought under GST from a date to be recommended by the Council. The Central Government has also retained its power to tax tobacco and tobacco products, though these are also under GST. Thus, to ensure smooth transition and provide fiscal buffer to States, it was agreed to keep alcohol completely out of the ambit of GST.
8. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT:
8.1 As explained above, unification
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Constitution (115th Amendment) Bill, 2011, in relation to the introduction of GST, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 11th March, 2011. The Bill was referred to the Standing Committee on Finance on 29th March, 2011. The Standing Committee submitted its report on the Bill in August, 2013. However, the Bill, which was pending in the Lok Sabha, lapsed with the dissolution of the 15th Lok Sabha.
8.3 The Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill, 2014 was introduced in the 16th Lok Sabha on 19th December, 2014. The Constitution Amendment Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha in May, 2015. The Bill was referred to the Select Committee of Rajya Sabha on 12th May, 2015. The Select Committee submitted its Report on the Bill on 22nd July, 2015. The Bill with certain amendments was finally passed in the Rajya Sabha and thereafter by Lok Sabha in August, 2016. Further the bill was ratified by required number of States and received assent of the President on 8th September, 2016 and has since been enacted a
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ds and Services Tax Council. It also provides that Parliament may, by law, formulate the principles for determining the place of supply, and when a supply of goods, or of services, or both takes place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce.
d) Article 270 has been amended to provide for distribution of goods and services tax collected by the Union between the Union and the States.
e) Article 271 has been amended which restricts power of the Parliament to levy surcharge under GST. In effect, surcharge cannot be imposed on goods and services which are subject to tax under Article 246A.
f) Article 279A has been inserted to provide for the constitution and mandate of GST Council.
g) Article 366 has been amended to exclude alcoholic liquor for human consumption from the ambit of GST, and services have been defined.
h) Article 368 has been amended to provide for a special procedure which requires the ratification of the Bill by the legislatures of not less than one hal
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the Goods and Services Tax Council (the Council) was notified with effect from 12th September, 2016. The Council is comprised of the Union Finance Minister (who will be the Chairman of the Council), the Minister of State (Revenue) and the State Finance/Taxation Ministers as members. It shall make recommendations to the Union and the States on the following issues:
a) the taxes, cesses and surcharges levied by the Centre, the States and the local bodies which may be subsumed under GST;
b) the goods and services that may be subjected to or exempted from the GST;
c) model GST laws, principles of levy, apportionment of IGST and the principles that govern the place of supply;
d) the threshold limit of turnover below which the goods and services may be exempted from GST;
e) the rates including floor rates with bands of GST;
f) any special rate or rates for a specified period to raise additional resources during any natural calamity or disaster;
g) special provision with
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members present and voting, in accordance with the following principles, namely: –
a) the vote of the Central Government shall have a weightage of one-third of the total votes cast, and
b) the votes of all the State Governments taken together shall have a weightage of two-thirds of the total votes cast, in that meeting.
9.4 The Council has met for 34 times and no occasion has arisen so far that required voting to decide any matter. The following major recommendations have been made by the Council:
9.4.1 Legal/Rules:
9.4.1.1 Recommending GST laws, namely CGST Law, UTGST Law, IGST Law, SGST Law and GST Compensation Law paving the way for implementation of GST.
9.4.1.2 Rules on composition, registration, input tax credit, invoice, determination of value of supply, accounts and records, returns, payment, refund, assessment and audit, advance ruling, appeals and revision, transitional provisions, anti-profiteering, E-way Bill, inspection, search and seizure, demands and recove
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egistrations within a State/Union territory in respect of multiple places of business located within the same State/Union territory.
9.4.2.5 Mandatory registration is required for only those e-commerce operators who are required to collect tax at source.
9.4.2.6 Registration to remain temporarily suspended while cancellation of registration is under process, so that the taxpayer is relieved of continued compliance under the law.
9.4.2.7 A Removal of Difficulty order has been issued to allow revocation of cancellation of those registrations, which were cancelled till 31st March, 2019. The application for revocation can be filed till 22nd July, 2019.
9.4.3 Migration:
9.4.3.1 One more window for completion of migration process is being allowed. The due date for the taxpayers who did not file the complete FORM GST REG-26 but received only a Provisional ID (PID) till 31.12.2017 for furnishing the requisite details to the jurisdictional nodal officer was extended till 31.01.2019. A
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ly payment of taxes. This has been made effective from 01.04.2019.
9.4.4.3 Taxpayers under Composition scheme have been allowed to pay 'self-assessed tax' on a quarterly basis till 18th of the month succeeding such quarter and furnish a return till 30th April for the previous financial year.
9.4.4.4 Composition scheme shall not be available to inter-State suppliers and specified category of manufacturers.
9.4.5 E-way bill system
9.4.5.1 The generation of e-way bill would be barred if a supplier or recipient does not file GST returns for 2 consecutive tax periods. This will be made applicable from 21st June, 2019.
9.4.6 Tax Administration:
9.4.6.1 In order to ensure single interface, all administrative control over 90% of taxpayers having turnover below ₹ 1.5 crore would vest with State tax administration and over 10% with the Central tax administration. Further all administrative control over taxpayers having turnover above ₹ 1.5 crore shall be divided e
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rse charge basis w.e.f. 01.04.2019 on following supplies received from unregistered suppliers –
a. such supplies which constitute the shortfall from the minimum value of goods or services or both required to be purchased by a promoter for construction of a project as prescribed in notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017,
b. cement which constitute the shortfall from the minimum value of goods or services or both required to be purchased by a promoter for construction of project as prescribed in notification No. 11/2017- Central Tax (Rate), and
c. capital goods supplied to a promoter for construction of a project on which tax is payable or paid at the rate prescribed in notification No. 11/2017- Central Tax (Rate).
9.4.8.2 Earlier the reverse charge mechanism under sub-section (4) of section 9 of the CGST Act, 2017 and under sub-section (4) of section 5 of the IGST Act, 2017 was kept under suspension till 30.09.2019.
9.4.9 Payment of Tax:
9.4.9.1 Ther
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9.4.11 Refunds:
9.4.11.1 A scheme of single authority for disbursement of the refund amount sanctioned by either the Centre or the State tax authorities would be implemented on pilot basis. The modalities for the same are being finalized.
9.4.11.2 All the supporting documents/invoices in relation to a claim for refund in FORM GST RFD-01A shall be uploaded electronically on the common portal at the time of filing of the refund application itself, thereby obviating the need for a taxpayer to physically visit a tax office for submission of a refund application.
9.4.12 Return:
9.4.12.1 All taxpayers are required to file return FORM GSTR-3B & pay tax on monthly basis.
9.4.12.2 Taxpayers with turnover up to ₹ 1.5 crore are required to file information in FORM GSTR-1 on a quarterly basis. Other taxpayers would have to file FORM GSTR-1 on a monthly basis.
9.4.12.3 The due date for furnishing the annual returns in FORM GSTR-9, FORM GSTR-9A and reconciliation statement in FORM
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w return system is simple with two main tables. One for reporting outward supplies and one for availing input tax credit based on invoices uploaded by the supplier.
9.4.14.4 Invoices can be uploaded continuously by the supplier and can be continuously viewed and locked by the buyer for availing input tax credit. This process would ensure that very large part of the return is automatically filled based on the invoices uploaded by the buyer and the supplier. Simply put, the process would be “UPLOAD – LOCK – PAY” for most tax payers.
9.4.14.5 Taxpayers would have facility to create his profile based on nature of supplies made and received. The fields of information which a taxpayer would be shown and would be required to fill in the return would depend on his profile.
9.4.14.6 NIL return filers (no purchase and no sale) shall be given facility to file return by sending SMS.
9.4.14.7 There shall be quarterly filing of return for the small taxpayers having turnover below ₹ 5 c
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g FORM GST ITC-04 for the period July 2017 to March 2019 was extended till 30.06.2019.
9.4.16 TDS/TCS:
9.4.16.1 TDS/TCS provisions shall be implemented from 01.10.2018.
9.4.16.2 Further, to provide some more time to TDS deductors to familiarize them with the new system, last date for furnishing return in FORM GSTR-7 for the months of October, 2018 to December, 2018 and January, 2019 was extended up to 28.02.2019. Further, exemption from TDS for been made for supply made by Government / PSU to another Government /PSU.
9.4.17 Export:
9.4.17.1 E-Wallet Scheme shall be introduced for exporters from 01.04.2020 and till then relief for exporters shall be given in form of broadly existing practice.
9.4.17.2 Supply of services to Nepal and Bhutan shall be exempted from GST even if payment has not been received in foreign convertible currency – such suppliers shall be eligible for input tax credit.
9.4.17.3 Supply of services to qualify as exports, even if payment is received in I
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in turn would give its recommendation to the GST Council.
9.4.20.3 The amount of IGST not apportioned to the Centre or the States/UTs may, for the time being, on the recommendations of the Council, be apportioned at the rate of fifty per cent. to the Central Government and fifty per cent. to the State Governments or the Union territories, as the case may be, on ad-hoc basis and this amount shall be adjusted against the amount finally apportioned.
9.4.20.4 Fifty per cent. of such amount, as may be recommended by the Council, which remains unutilized in the Compensation Fund, at any point of time in any financial year during the transition period shall be transferred to the Consolidated Fund of India as the share of Centre, and the balance fifty per cent. shall be distributed amongst the States in the ratio of their base year revenue.
9.4.20.5 In case of shortfall in the amount collected in the Fund against the requirement of compensation to be released for any two months' period,
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Kolkata and Mumbai (whole of MMR).
9.4.21.4 Conditions for new tax rate:
a. Input tax credit shall not be available
b. 80% of inputs and input services [other than capital goods, TDR/ JDA, FSI, long term lease (premiums)] shall be purchased from registered persons. On shortfall of purchases from 80%, tax shall be paid by the builder @ 18% on RCM basis. However, Tax on cement purchased from unregistered person shall be paid @ 28% under RCM, and on capital goods under RCM at applicable rates.
9.4.21.5 GST exemption on TDR/ JDA, long term lease (premium), FSI:
Intermediate tax on development right, such as TDR, JDA, lease (premium), FSI shall be exempted only for such residential property on which GST is payable.
9.4.21.6 The new rate has become applicable from 01.04.2019.
9.4.21.7 One time transition option given to real estate firms to continue to pay tax at the old rates (effective rate of 8% or 12% with ITC) on on-going projects (buildings where construction and actual
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rvices will attract one per cent. cess. The Kerala government has also decided to allow local bodies to collect entertainment tax on movie tickets up to 10 per cent.
9.4.24 Recent Law amendments w.e.f. 01.02.2019:
9.4.24.1 Scope of input tax credit has been widened, and it would now be made available in respect of the following:
a. Most of the activities or transactions specified in Schedule III;
b. Motor vehicles for transportation of persons having seating capacity of more than thirteen (including driver), vessels and aircraft;
c. Services of general insurance, repair and maintenance in respect of motor vehicles, vessels and aircraft on which credit is available;
d. Goods or services which are obligatory for an employer to provide to its employees, under any law for the time being in force.
9.4.24.2 The order of cross-utilization of input tax credit has been rationalized.
9.4.24.3 Commissioner empowered to extend the time limit for return of inputs and capital sen
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ry can be made from distinct persons, even if present in different State/Union territories.
9.4.25 Others:
9.4.25.1 In principle approval has been given for creation of a Centralized Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling (AAAR) to deal with cases of conflicting decisions by two or more State Appellate Advance Ruling Authorities on the same issue. This would be implemented once the law is amended.
9.4.25.2 Existing tax incentive schemes of Central or State governments may be continued by respective government by way of reimbursement through budgetary route. The schemes, in the present form, would not continue in GST.
9.4.25.3 50% of the GST paid will be refunded to CSD (Defense Canteens).
9.4.25.4 Centralized UIN shall be issued to every Foreign Diplomatic Mission / UN Organization by the Central Government for handling their refund related applications.
9.4.25.5 There would be a single cash ledger for each tax head. The modalities for implementation would be finalized in c
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hat Centre would levy IGST (Integrated Goods and Service Tax) which would be CGST plus SGST on all inter-State supply of goods or services or both. The inter-State supplier will pay IGST on value addition after adjusting available credit of IGST, CGST, and SGST on his purchases. The Exporting State will transfer to the Centre the credit of SGST used in payment of IGST. The person based in the destination State will claim credit of IGST while discharging his output tax liability in his own State. The Centre will transfer to the importing State the credit of IGST used in payment of SGST. The relevant information will also be submitted to the Central Agency which will act as a clearing house mechanism, verify the claims and inform the respective governments to transfer the funds. The major advantages of IGST Model are:
a) Maintenance of uninterrupted ITC chain on inter-State transactions.
b) No upfront payment of tax or substantial blockage of funds for the interState supplier or re
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.4 Compensation to States: The Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act, 2017 provides for compensation to the States for the loss of revenue arising on account of implementation of the goods and services tax. Compensation will be provided to a State for a period of five years from the date on which the State brings its SGST Act into force. For the purpose of calculating the compensation amount in any financial year, year 2015-16 will be assumed to be the base year, for calculating the revenue to be protected. The growth rate of revenue for a State during the five-year period is assumed be 14% per annum. The base year tax revenue consists of the states' tax revenues from: (i) State Value Added Tax (VAT), (ii) central sales tax, (iii) entry tax, octroi, local body tax, (iv) taxes on luxuries, (v) taxes on advertisements, etc. However, any revenue among these taxes arising related to supply of alcohol for human consumption, and five specified petroleum products, will not be ac
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on PIN codes for the generation of e-way bill and blocking the generation of multiple e-way bills against one invoice.
10.6 Anti-Profiteering Mechanism: Implementation of GST in many countries was coupled with increase in inflation and the prices of the commodities. This happened in spite of the availability of the tax credit. This was happening because the supplier was not passing on the benefit to the consumer and thereby indulging in illegal profiteering. Any reduction in rate of tax or the benefit of increased input tax credit should have been passed on to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices.
10.6.1 National Anti-profiteering Authority (NAPA) has been constituted under GST by the Central Government to examine the complaints of non-passing the benefit of reduced tax incidence. The Authority shall cease to exist after the expiry of two years from the date on which the Chairman enters upon his office unless the Council recommends otherwise.
10.6.2 The Autho
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Puducherry, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura and Uttarakhand) with effect from 01.04.2019.
Threshold limit of aggregate turnover for exemption from registration and payment of GST for suppliers of services would be ₹ 20 lakhs and ₹ 10 lakhs (in case of States of Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura).
A common threshold exemption applies to both CGST and SGST. The benefit of threshold exemption, however, is not available in inter-State supplies of goods.
10.9 Composition Scheme: Composition scheme has been formulated for small businessmen being supplier of goods and supplier of restaurant services. Under the scheme, person with turnover up to ₹ 1.5 crore (Rs. 75 lakhs in States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and Uttarakhand) needs to pay tax equal to 1% to 5% on his turnover and needs to file his returns annually with quarterly payment from FY 2019-20.
Composition scheme has also been formulated for supplier of services
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TGST & IGST in that order;
d) ITC of IGST allowed for payment of IGST, CGST & SGST/UTGST in that order.
ITC of CGST cannot be used for payment of SGST/UTGST and vice versa. It has been further provided that IGST balances shall be exhausted for payment of IGST, CGST or SGST, as the case may be, before utilization of CGST or SGST.
10.12 Settlement of Government Accounts: Accounts would be settled periodically between the Centre and the State to ensure that the credit of SGST used for payment of IGST is transferred by the originating State to the Centre. Similarly, the IGST used for payment of SGST would be transferred by Centre to the destination State. Further the SGST portion of IGST collected on B2C supplies would also be transferred by Centre to the destination State. The transfer of funds would be carried out on the basis of information contained in the returns filed by the taxpayers.
10.13 Modes of Payment: Various modes of payment of tax available to the taxpayer includin
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39;, at such rate not exceeding two per cent of net value of taxable supplies, out of payments to suppliers supplying goods or services through their portals. The provision for TCS has been operationalized w.e.f. 01st October, 2018.
10.17 Self-assessment: Self-assessment of the taxes payable by the registered person shall be the norm. Audit of registered persons shall be conducted on selective basis. Limitation period for raising demand is three (3) years from the due date of filing of annual return or from the date of erroneous refund for raising demand for short-payment or non-payment of tax or erroneous refund and its adjudication in normal cases. Limitation period for raising demand is five (5) years from the due date of filing of annual return or from the date of erroneous refund for raising demand for short-payment or non-payment of tax or erroneous refund and its adjudication in case of fraud, suppression or willful mis-statement.
10.18 Recovery of Arrears: Arrears of tax to
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onal Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance), Additional Duties of Excise (Textiles and Textile Products), Additional Duties of Customs (commonly known as CVD), Special Additional Duty of Customs (SAD), Service Tax and cesses and surcharges insofar as they related to supply of goods or services were subsumed. As far as taxes levied and collected by States are concerned, State VAT, Central Sales Tax, Purchase Tax, Luxury Tax, Entry Tax, Entertainment Tax (except those levied by the local bodies), Taxes on advertisements, Taxes on lotteries, betting and gambling, cesses and surcharges insofar as they related to supply of goods or services were subsumed.
11. GST LEGISLATIONS:
11.1. Four Laws namely CGST Act, UTGST Act, IGST Act and GST (Compensation to States) Act were passed by the Parliament and since been notified on 12th April, 2017. All the other States (except J&K) and Union territories with legislature have passed their respective SGST Acts. The economic integration of I
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s have also been issued under IGST Act, UTGST Act and GST (Compensation to States) Act respectively. Further, 86, 89, 86 and 9 rate related notifications each have been issued under the CGST Act, IGST Act, UTGST Act and GST (Compensation to States) Act respectively. Similar notifications have been issued by all the States under the respective SGST Act. Apart from the notifications, 106 circulars, 18 orders and 13 Removal of Difficulty Orders have also been issued by CBIC on various subjects like proper officers, ease of exports, and extension of last dates for filling up various forms, etc.
12. ROLE OF CBIC:
12.1 CBIC is playing an active role in the drafting of GST law and procedures, particularly the CGST and IGST law, which will be exclusive domain of the Centre. This apart, the CBIC has prepared itself for meeting the implementation challenges, which are quite formidable. The number of taxpayers has gone up significantly. The existing IT infrastructure of CBIC has been suitably
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would continue to be administered by the CBIC for levy and collection of central excise duty on five specified petroleum products as well as on tobacco products. CBIC would also continue to handle the work relating to levy and collection of customs duties.
12.4 Director General of Anti-profiteering, CBIC has been mandated to conduct detailed enquiry on anti-profiteering cases and should give his recommendation for consideration of the National Anti-profiteering Authority.
12.5 CBIC has been instrumental in handholding the implementation of GST. It had set up the Feedback and Action Room which monitored the GST implementation challenges faced by the taxpayer and act as an active interface between the taxpayer and the Government.
13. GOODS & SERVICES TAX NETWORK:
13.1 Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has been set up by the Government as a private company under erstwhile Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956. GSTN would provide three front end services to the taxpayers namel
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function' performed by GSTN, the GST Council felt that GSTN be converted into a fully owned Government company. Accordingly, the Council approved acquisition of entire 51 per cent of equity held by non-Governmental institutions in GSTN amounting to ₹ 5.1 crore, equally by the Centre and the State Governments.
13.3 The design of GST systems is based on role based access. The taxpayer can access his own data through identified applications like registration, return, view ledger etc. The tax official having jurisdiction, as per GST law, can access the data. Data can be accessed by audit authorities as per law. No other entity can have any access to data available with GSTN.
14. GST: A GAME CHANGER FOR INDIAN ECONOMY:
14.1 GST will have a multiplier effect on the economy with benefits accruing to various sectors as discussed below.
14.2 Benefits to the exporters: The subsuming of major Central and State taxes in GST, complete and comprehensive setoff of input goods and servi
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(Rs. 75 lakhs in certain cases) in case of supplier of goods and restaurant services and ₹ 50 lakhs in case of supplier of services. With the creation of a seamless national market across the country, small enterprises will have an opportunity to expand their national footprint with minimal investment.
14.4 Benefits to agriculture and Industry: GST will give more relief to industry, trade and agriculture through a more comprehensive and wider coverage of input tax set-off and service tax set-off, subsuming of several Central and State taxes in the GST and phasing out of CST. The transparent and complete chain of set-offs which will result in widening of tax base and better tax compliance may also lead to lowering of tax burden on an average dealer in industry, trade and agriculture.
14.5 Benefits for common consumers: With the introduction of GST, the cascading effects of CENVAT, State VAT and service tax will be more comprehensively removed with a continuous chain of set-off
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orts thereby making our products more competitive in the international market and give boost to Indian Exports. It will also improve the overall investment climate in the country which will naturally benefit the development in the states. Uniform CGST & SGST and IGST rates will reduce the incentive for evasion by eliminating rate arbitrage between neighboring States and that between intra and inter-State supplies. Average tax burden on companies is likely to come down which is expected to reduce prices and lower prices mean more consumption, which in turn means more production thereby helping in the growth of the industries. This will create India as a ―Manufacturing hub‖.
14.7 Ease of Doing Business: Simpler tax regime with fewer exemptions along with reduction in multiplicity of taxes that are at present governing our indirect tax system will lead to simplification and uniformity. Reduction in compliance costs as multiple record-keeping for a variety of taxes will not b
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76,98,644
3.
No. of applications approved
65,62,975
4.
No. of applications rejected
10,91,708
5.
Total No. of taxpayers; new + migrated (1 + 3)
1,31,88,052
6.
No. of taxpayers who have opted for composition scheme
17,74,379
7.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for July, 2017
65,83,994
8.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for August, 2017
71,71,991
9.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for September, 2017
75,20,180
10.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for October, 2017
72,78,859
11.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for November, 2017
73,71,650
12.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for December, 2017
74,58,618
13.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for January, 2018
75,76,046
14.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for February, 2018
77,00,842
15.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for March, 2018
78,10,442
16.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for April, 2018
78,78,410
17.
No. of GSTR-3B returns filed for May, 2018
80,21,065
18.
No. of GSTR-3
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rns filed for December, 2017
69,88,089
34.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for January, 2018
26,74,723
35.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for February, 2018
26,83,169
36.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for March, 2018
71,75,188
37.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for April, 2018
28,28,034
38.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for May, 2018
28,55,077
39.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for June, 2018
73,92,526
40.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for July, 2018
28,81,064
41.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for August, 2018
28,77,308
42.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for September, 2018
74,81,145
43.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for October, 2018
28,51,678
44.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for November, 2018
28,14,772
45.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for December, 2018
72,25,851
46.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for January, 2019
26,87,331
47.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for February, 2019
25,37,573
48.
No. of GSTR 1 returns filed for Marc
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92,167
10.
April, 18
1,03,458
11.
May, 18
94,016
12.
June, 18
95,610
13.
July, 18
96,483
14.
August, 18
93,960
15.
September, 18
94,442
16.
October, 18
1,00,710
17.
November, 18
97,637
18.
December, 18
94,726
19.
January, 19
1,02,503
20.
February, 19
97,247
21.
March, 19
1,06,577
22.
April, 19
1,13,865
23.
Total
20,31,884
16. CHALLENGES & FUTURE AHEAD:
16.1 Any new change is accompanied by difficulties and problems at the outset. A change as comprehensive as GST is bound to pose certain challenges not only for the government but also for business community, tax administration and even common citizens of the country. Some of these challenges relate to the unfamiliarity with the new regime and IT systems, legal challenges, return filing and reconciliations, passing on transition credit. Lack of robust IT infrastructure and system delays makes compliance difficult for the taxpayers. M
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