Section 2 – GST – States – PRELIMINARY – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) actionable claim shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in section 3 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882; (4 of 1882). (2) address of delivery means the address of the recipient of goods or services or both indicated on the tax invoice issued by a registered person for delivery of such goods or services or both; (3) address on record means the address of the recipient as available in the records of the supplier; (4) adjudicating authority means any authority, appointed or authorised to pass any order or decision under this Act, but does not include the Commissioner, Revisional Authority, the Authority for Advance Ruling, the Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling, the Appellate Authority and the Appellate Tribunal; (5) agent means a person, including a factor, broker, commissio
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ority appointed or authorised to hear appeals as referred to in section 107; (9) Appellate Tribunal means the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal referred to in section 109; (10) appointed day means the date on which the provisions of this Act shall come into force; (11) assessment means determination of tax liability under this Act and includes self-assessment, re-assessment, provisional assessment, summary assessment and best judgement assessment; (12) associated enterprises shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in section 92A of the Income-tax Act, 1961; (43 of 1961). (13) audit means the examination of records, returns and other documents maintained or furnished by the registered person under this Act or the rules made thereunder or under any other law for the time being in force to verify the correctness of turnover declared, taxes paid, refund claimed and input tax credit availed, and to assess his compliance with the provisions of this Act
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(e) provision by a club, association, society, or any such body (for a subscription or any other consideration) of the facilities or benefits to its members; (f) admission, for a consideration, of persons to any premises; (g) services supplied by a person as the holder of an office which has been accepted by him in the course or furtherance of his trade, profession or vocation; (h) services provided by a race club by way of totalisator or a licence to book maker in such club; and (i) any activity or transaction undertaken by the Central Government, a State Government or any local authority in which they are engaged as public authorities; (18) business vertical means a distinguishable component of an enterprise that is engaged in the supply of individual goods or services or a group of related goods or services which is subject to risks and returns that are different from those of the other business verticals. Explanation .- For the purposes of this clause, fact
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oods and services tax levied under section 9 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act; (22) cess shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act; (23) chartered accountant means a chartered accountant as defined in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949; (38 of 1949). (24) Commissioner means the Commissioner of State tax appointed under section 3 and includes the Commissioner of State tax appointed under Section 3; (25) Commissioner in the Board means the Commissioner referred to in section 168 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act; (26) common portal means the common goods and services tax electronic portal referred to in section 146; (27) common working days shall mean such days in succession which are not declared as gazetted holidays by the Central Government or the Government of Mizoram; (28) company secretary means a company secretary as
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ipient or by any other person but shall not include any subsidy given by the Central Government or a State Government; (b) the monetary value of any act or forbearance, in respect of, in response to, or for the inducement of, the supply of goods or services or both, whether by the recipient or by any other person but shall not include any subsidy given by the Central Government or a State Government: Provided that a deposit given in respect of the supply of goods or services or both shall not be considered as payment made for such supply unless the supplier applies such deposit as consideration for the said supply; (32) continuous supply of goods means a supply of goods which is provided, or agreed to be provided, continuously or on recurrent basis, under a contract, whether or not by means of a wire, cable, pipeline or other conduit, and for which the supplier invoices the recipient on a regular or periodic basis and includes supply of such goods as the Government may, subj
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means such supplies of goods as may be notified under section 147; (40) designated authority means such authority as may be notified by the Commissioner; (41) document includes written or printed record of any sort and electronic record as defined in clause (t) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000; ( 21 of 2000). (42) drawback in relation to any goods manufactured in India and exported, means the rebate of duty, tax or cess chargeable on any imported inputs or on any domestic inputs or input services used in the manufacture of such goods; (43) electronic cash ledger means the electronic cash ledger referred to in sub-section (1) of section 49; (44) electronic commerce means the supply of goods or services or both, including digital products over digital or electronic network; (45) electronic commerce operator means any person who owns, operates or manages digital or electronic facility or platform for electronic commerce; (46) electron
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by a sufficient degree of permanence and suitable structure in terms of human and technical resources to supply services, or to receive and use services for its own needs; (51) Fund means the Consumer Welfare Fund established under section 57; (52) goods means every kind of movable property other than money and securities but includes actionable claim, growing crops, grass and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before supply or under a contract of supply; (53) Government means the Government of Mizoram; (54) Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act means the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act, 2017; (55) goods and services tax practitioner means any person who has been approved under section 48 to act as such practitioner; (56) India means the territory of India as referred to in article 1 of the Constitution, its territorial waters, seabed and sub-soil underlying such waters, continen
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buting the credit of central tax, State tax, integrated tax or Union territory tax paid on the said services to a supplier of taxable goods or services or both having the same Permanent Account Number as that of the said office; (62) input tax in relation to a registered person, means the central tax, State tax, integrated tax or Union territory tax charged on any supply of goods or services or both made to him and includes (a) the integrated goods and services tax charged on import of goods; (b) the tax payable under the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 9; (c) the tax payable under the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 5 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act; or (d) the tax payable under the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 9 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, but does not include the tax paid under the composition levy; (63) input tax credit means the credit of input tax; (64) intra-State s
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uthority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Central Government or any State Government with the control or management of a municipal or local fund; (d) a Cantonment Board as defined in section 3 of the Cantonments Act, 2006; (41 of 2006). (e) a Regional Council or a District Council constituted under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution; (f) a Development Board constituted under article 371 of the Constitution; or (g) a Regional Council constituted under article 371A of the Constitution; (70) location of the recipient of services means,- (a) where a supply is received at a place of business for which the registration has been obtained, the location of such place of business; (b) where a supply is received at a place other than the place of business for which registration has been obtained (a fixed establishment elsewhere), the location of such fixed establishment; (c) where a supply is received at more than one establishment, whether the place of busin
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hat results in emergence of a new product having a distinct name, character and use and the term manufacturer shall be construed accordingly; (73) market value shall mean the full amount which a recipient of a supply is required to pay in order to obtain the goods or services or both of like kind and quality at or about the same time and at the same commercial level where the recipient and the supplier are not related; (74) mixed supply means two or more individual supplies of goods or services, or any combination thereof, made in conjunction with each other by a taxable person for a single price where such supply does not constitute a composite supply. Illustration: A supply of a package consisting of canned foods, sweets, chocolates, cakes, dry fruits, aerated drinks and fruit juices when supplied for a single price is a mixed supply. Each of these items can be supplied separately and is not dependent on any other. It shall not be a mixed supply if these items are su
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his Act or under the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act; (79) non-taxable territory means the territory which is outside the taxable territory; (80) notification means a notification published in the Official Gazette and the expressions notify and notified shall be construed accordingly; (81) other territory includes territories other than those comprising in a State and those referred to in sub-clauses (a) to (e) of clause (114); (82) output tax in relation to a taxable person, means the tax chargeable under this Act on taxable supply of goods or services or both made by him or by his agent but excludes tax payable by him on reverse charge basis; (83) outward supply in relation to a taxable person, means supply of goods or services or both, whether by sale, transfer, barter, exchange, licence, rental, lease or disposal or any other mode, made or agreed to be made by such person in the course or furtherance of business; (84) person includes- (a)
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a godown or any other place where a taxable person stores his goods, supplies or receives goods or services or both; or (b) a place where a taxable person maintains his books of account; or (c) a place where a taxable person is engaged in business through an agent, by whatever name called; (86) place of supply means the place of supply as referred to in Chapter V of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act; (87) prescribed means prescribed by rules made under this Act on the recommendations of the Council; (88) principal means a person on whose behalf an agent carries on the business of supply or receipt of goods or services or both; (89) principal place of business means the place of business specified as the principal place of business in the certificate of registration; (90) principal supply means the supply of goods or services which constitutes the predominant element of a composite supply and to which any other supply forming part of that composit
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ecipient of the supply and shall include an agent acting as such on behalf of the recipient in relation to the goods or services or both supplied; (94) registered person means a person who is registered under section 25 but does not include a person having a Unique Identity Number. (95) regulations means the regulations made by the Government under this Act on the recommendations of the Council; (96) removal in relation to goods, means- (a) despatch of the goods for delivery by the supplier thereof or by any other person acting on behalf of such supplier; or (b) collection of the goods by the recipient thereof or by any other person acting on behalf of such recipient; (97) return means any return prescribed or otherwise required to be furnished by or under this Act or the rules made thereunder; (98) reverse charge means the liability to pay tax by the recipient of supply of goods or services or both instead of the supplier of such goods or services or b
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ll mean the person supplying the said goods or services or both and shall include an agent acting as such on behalf of such supplier in relation to the goods or services or both supplied; (106) tax period means the period for which the return is required to be furnished; (107) taxable person means a person who is registered or liable to be registered under section 22 or section 24; (108) taxable supply means a supply of goods or services or both which is leviable to tax under this Act; (109) taxable territory means the territory to which the provisions of this Act apply; (110) telecommunication service means service of any description (including electronic mail, voice mail, data services, audio text services, video text services, radio paging and cellular mobile telephone services) which is made available to users by means of any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature, by wire, radio, visual or o
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adra and Nagar Haveli; (d) Daman and Diu; (e) Chandigarh; and (f) other territory; Explanation .- For the purposes of this Act, each of the territories specified in sub-clauses (a) to (f) shall be considered to be a separate Union territory. (115) Union territory tax means the Union territory goods and services tax levied under the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act; (116) Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act means the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017; (117) valid return means a return furnished under sub-section (1) of section 39 on which self-assessed tax has been paid in full; (118) voucher means an instrument where there is an obligation to accept it as consideration or part consideration for a supply of goods or services or both and where the goods or services or both to be supplied or the identities of their potential suppliers are either indicated on the instrument itself or in related documentation, including the
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