Goods and Services Tax

Section 153 – GST – States – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 153. Taking assistance from an expert.- Any officer not below the rank of Assistant Commissioner may, having regard to the nature and complexity of the case and the interest of revenue, take assistance of any expert at any stage of scrutiny, inquiry, investigation or any other proceedings before him. – – statute, statutory provisions legislation, law, enactment, Acts, Rules, Reg

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Section 152 – GST – States – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 152. Bar on disclosure of information.- (1) No information of any individual return or part thereof with respect to any matter given for the purposes of section 150 or section 151 shall, without the previous consent in writing of the concerned person or his authorised representative, be published in such manner so as to enable such particulars to be identified as referring to a particu

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Section 151 – GST – States – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 151. Power to collect statistics.- (1) The Commissioner may, if he considers that it is necessary so to do, by notification, direct that statistics may be collected relating to any matter dealt with by or in connection with this Act. (2) Upon such notification being issued, the Commissioner, or any person authorised by him in this behalf, may call upon the concerned persons to furni

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Section 150 – GST – States – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 150. Obligation to furnish information return.- (1) Any person, being- (a) a taxable person; or (b) a local authority or other public body or association; or (c) any authority of the State Government responsible for the collection of value added tax or sales tax or State excise duty or an authority of the Central Government responsible for the collection of excise duty or customs duty; or (d) an income tax authority appointed under the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961; (43 of 1961.) or (e) a banking company within the meaning of clause (a) of section 45A of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934; (2 of

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3; (30 of 2013.) or (k) the recognised stock exchange referred to in clause (f) of section 2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956; (42 of 1956.) or (l) a depository referred to in clause (e) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Depositories Act, 1996; (22 of 1996.) or (m) an officer of the Reserve Bank of India as constituted under section 3 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934; (2 of 1934.) or (n) the Goods and Services Tax Network, a company registered under the Companies Act, 2013; ( 18 of 2013.) or (o) a person to whom a Unique Identity Number has been granted under sub-section (9) of section 25; or (p) any other person as may be specified, on the recommendations of the Council, by the Go

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formation return is defective, he may intimate the defect to the person who has furnished such information return and give him an opportunity of rectifying the defect within a period of thirty days from the date of such intimation or within such further period which, on an application made in this behalf, the said authority may allow and if the defect is not rectified within the said period of thirty days or, the further period so allowed, then, notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, such information return shall be treated as not furnished and the provisions of this Act shall apply. (3) Where a person who is required to furnish information return has not furnished the same within the time specified in su

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Section 149 – Mizoram SGST – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Section 149 – 149. Goods and services tax compliance rating.- (1) Every registered person may be assigned a goods and services tax compliance rating score by the Government based on his record of compliance with the provisions of this Act. (2) The goods and services tax compliance rating score may be determined on the basis of such parameters as may be prescribed. (3) The goods and services tax compliance ra

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Section 148 – GST – States – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 148. Special procedure for certain processes.- The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, and subject to such conditions and safeguards as may be prescribed, notify certain classes of registered persons, and the special procedures to be followed by such persons including those with regard to registration, furnishing of return, payment of tax and administration of such p

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Section 147 – GST – States – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 147. Deemed Exports.- The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, notify certain supplies of goods as deemed exports , where goods supplied do not leave India, and payment for such supplies is received either in Indian rupees or in convertible foreign exchange, if such goods are manufactured in India. – – statute, statutory provisions legislation, law, enactment,

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Section 146 – GST – States – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 146. Common Portal.- The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, notify the Common Goods and Services Tax Electronic Portal for facilitating registration, payment of tax, furnishing of returns, computation and settlement of integrated tax, electronic way bill and for carrying out such other functions and for such purposes as may be prescribed. – – statute, statuto

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Section 145 – GST – States – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 145. Admissibility of micro films, facsimile copies of documents and computer printouts as documents and as evidence.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force,- (a) a micro film of a document or the reproduction of the image or images embodied in such micro film (whether enlarged or not); or (b) a facsimile copy of a document; or (c) a statement contained in a document and included in a printed material produced by a computer, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed; or (d) any information stored electronically in any device or media, including any hard copie

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Section 144 – GST – States – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 144. Presumption as to documents in certain cases.- Where any document- (i) is produced by any person under this Act or any other law for the time being in force; or (ii) has been seized from the custody or control of any person under this Act or any other law for the time being in force; or (iii) has been received from any place outside India in the course of any proceedings under this Act or any other law for the time being in force, and such document is tendered by the prosecution in evidence against him or any other person who is tried jointly with him, the court shall- (a) unless the contrary is proved

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Section 143 – GST – States – MISCELLANEOUS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – CHAPTER XXI Miscellaneous 143. Job work procedure.- (1) A registered person (hereafter in this section referred to as the principal ) may, under intimation and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, send any inputs or capital goods, without payment of tax, to a job worker for job work and from there subsequently send to another job worker and likewise, and shall,- (a) bring back inputs, after completion of job work or otherwise, or capital goods, other than moulds and dies, jigs and fixtures, or tools, within one year and three years, respectively, of their being sent out, to any of his place of business,

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rincipal is engaged in the supply of such goods as may be notified by the Commissioner. (2) The responsibility for keeping proper accounts for the inputs or capital goods shall lie with the principal. (3) Where the inputs sent for job work are not received back by the principal after completion of job work or otherwise in accordance with the provisions of clause (a) of sub-section (1) or are not supplied from the place of business of the job worker in accordance with the provisions of clause (b) of sub-section (1) within a period of one year of their being sent out, it shall be deemed that such inputs had been supplied by the principal to the job worker on the day when the said inputs were sent out. (4) Where the capital goods, ot

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Section 141 – GST – States – TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 141. Transitional provisions relating to job work.- (1) Where any inputs received at a place of business had been despatched as such or despatched after being partially processed to a job worker for further processing, testing, repair, reconditioning or any other purpose in accordance with the provisions of existing law prior to the appointed day and such inputs are returned to the said place on or after the appointed day, no tax shall be payable if such inputs, after completion of the job work or otherwise, are returned to the said place within six months from the appointed day: Provided that the period of six month

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be payable if the said goods, after undergoing manufacturing processes or otherwise, are returned to the said place within six months from the appointed day: Provided that the period of six months may, on sufficient cause being shown, be extended by the Commissioner for a further period not exceeding two months: Provided further that if the said goods are not returned within a period specified in this sub-section, the input tax credit shall be liable to be recovered in accordance with the provisions of clause (a) of sub-section (8) of section 142: Provided also that the person despatching the goods may, in accordance with the provisions of the existing law, transfer the said goods to the premises of any registered person for t

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ded by the Commissioner for a further period not exceeding two months: Provided further that if the said goods are not returned within the period specified in this sub-section, the input tax credit shall be liable to be recovered in accordance with the provisions of clause (a) of sub-section (8) of section 142: Provided also that the person despatching the goods may, in accordance with the provisions of the existing law, transfer the said goods from the said other premises on payment of tax in India or without payment of tax for exports within the period specified in this sub-section. (4) The tax under sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) shall not be payable, only if the person despatching the goods and the job worker declare the de

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Section 139 – GST – States – TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – CHAPTER XX Transitional Provisions 139. Migration of existing taxpayers.- (1) On and from the appointed day, every person registered under any of the existing laws and having a valid Permanent Account Number shall be issued a certificate of registration on provisional basis, subject to such conditions and in such form and manner as may be prescribed, which unless rep

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Section 138 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 138. Compounding of offences.- (1) Any offence under this Act may, either before or after the institution of prosecution, be compounded by the Commissioner on payment, by the person accused of the offence, to the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, of such compounding amount in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that nothing contained in this section shall apply to- (a) a person who has been allowed to compound once in respect of any of the offences specified in clauses (a) to (f) of sub-section (1) of section 132 and the offences specified in clause (l) which are relatable to

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ffence specified in clause (g) or clause (j) or clause (k) of sub-section (1) of section 132; and (f) any other class of persons or offences as may be prescribed: Provided further that any compounding allowed under the provisions of this section shall not affect the proceedings, if any, instituted under any other law: Provided also that compounding shall be allowed only after making payment of tax, interest and penalty involved in such offences. (2) The amount for compounding of offences under this section shall be such as may be prescribed, subject to the minimum amount not being less than ten thousand rupees or fifty per cent. of the tax involved, whichever is higher, and the maximum amount not being less than thirty th

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Section 137 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 137. Offences by Companies.- (1) Where an offence committed by a person under this Act is a company, every person who, at the time the offence was committed was in charge of, and was responsible to, the company for the conduct of business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where an offence under this Act has been committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to a

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Section 136 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 136. Relevancy of statements under certain circumstances.- A statement made and signed by a person on appearance in response to any summons issued under section 70 during the course of any inquiry or proceedings under this Act shall be relevant, for the purpose of proving, in any prosecution for an offence under this Act, the truth of the facts which it contains, (a) when

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Section 135 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 135. Presumption of culpable mental state.- In any prosecution for an offence under this Act which requires a culpable mental state on the part of the accused, the court shall presume the existence of such mental state but it shall be a defence for the accused to prove the fact that he had no such mental state with respect to the act charged as an offence in that prosecution.

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Section 134 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 134. Cognizance of offences.- No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act or the rules made thereunder except with the previous sanction of the Commissioner, and no court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the First Class, shall try any such offence. – – statute, statutory provisions legislation, law, enactment, Acts, Rules, Regulations, Tax

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Section 133 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 133. Liability of officers and certain other persons.- (1) Where any person engaged in connection with the collection of statistics under section 151 or compilation or computerisation thereof or if any officer of State tax having access to information specified under sub-section (1) of section 150, or if any person engaged in connection with the provision of service on the common portal or the agent of common portal, wilfully discloses any information or the contents of any return furnished under this Act or rules made thereunder otherwise than in execution of his duties under the said sections or for the purposes of pros

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Section 132 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 132. Punishment for certain offences.- (1) Whoever commits any of the following offences, namely:- (a) supplies any goods or services or both without issue of any invoice, in violation of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, with the intention to evade tax; (b) issues any invoice or bill without supply of goods or services or both in violation of the provisions of this Act, or the rules made thereunder leading to wrongful availment or utilisation of input tax credit or refund of tax; (c) avails input tax credit using such invoice or bill referred to in clause (b); (d) collects any amount as tax but fails to pay the same to the Government beyond a period of three months from the date on which such payment becomes due; (e) evades tax, fraudulently avails input tax credit or fraudulently obtains refund and where such offence is

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supply under this Act or the rules made thereunder or (unless with a reasonable belief, the burden of proving which shall be upon him, that the information supplied by him is true) supplies false information; or (l) attempts to commit, or abets the commission of any of the offences mentioned in clauses (a) to (k) of this section, shall be punishable- (i) in cases where the amount of tax evaded or the amount of input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised or the amount of refund wrongly taken exceeds five hundred lakh rupees, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and with fine; (ii) in cases where the amount of tax evaded or the amount of input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised or the amount of refund wrongly taken exceeds two hundred lakh rupees but does not exceed five hundred lakh rupees, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine; (iii) in the case of any other offence where the amount of tax evaded o

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ss than six months. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, all offences under this Act, except the offences referred to in sub-section (5) shall be non-cognizable and bailable. (5) The offences specified in clause (a) or clause (b) or clause (c) or clause (d) of sub-section (1) and punishable under clause (i) of that sub-section shall be cognizable and non-bailable. (6) A person shall not be prosecuted for any offence under this section except with the previous sanction of the Commissioner. Explanation .- For the purposes of this section, the term tax shall include the amount of tax evaded or the amount of input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised or refund wrongly taken under the provisions of this Act, the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, and cess levied under the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act. – – statute, statutory provisions legislation, law, ena

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Section 131 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 131. Confiscation or penalty not to interfere with other punishments.- Without prejudice to the provisions contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (2 of 1974.) no confiscation made or penalty imposed under the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder shall prevent the infliction of any other punishment to which the person affected thereby is liable under t

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Section 130 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 130. Confiscation of goods or conveyances and levy of penalty.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, if any person- (i) supplies or receives any goods in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder with intent to evade payment of tax; or (ii) does not account for any goods on which he is liable to pay tax under this Act; or (iii) supplies any goods liable to tax under this Act without having applied for registration; or (iv) contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder with intent to evade payment of tax; or (v) uses an

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lue of the goods confiscated, less the tax chargeable thereon: Provided further that the aggregate of such fine and penalty leviable shall not be less than the amount of penalty leviable under sub-section (1) of section 129: Provided also that where any such conveyance is used for the carriage of the goods or passengers for hire, the owner of the conveyance shall be given an option to pay in lieu of the confiscation of the conveyance a fine equal to the tax payable on the goods being transported thereon. (3) Where any fine in lieu of confiscation of goods or conveyance is imposed under sub-section (2), the owner of such goods or conveyance or the person referred to in sub-section (1), shall, in addition, be liable to any tax,

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Section 129 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 129. Detention, seizure and release of goods and conveyances in transit.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, where any person transports any goods or stores any goods while they are in transit in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, all such goods and conveyance used as a means of transport for carrying the said goods and documents relating to such goods and conveyance shall be liable to detention or seizure and after detention or seizure, shall be released, (a) on payment of the applicable tax and penalty equal to one hundred per cent. of the tax payable on such

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r as may be prescribed: Provided that no such goods or conveyance shall be detained or seized without serving an order of detention or seizure on the person transporting the goods. (2) The provisions of sub-section (6) of section 67 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply for detention and seizure of goods and conveyances. (3) The proper officer detaining or seizing goods or conveyances shall issue a notice specifying the tax and penalty payable and thereafter, pass an order for payment of tax and penalty under clause (a) or clause (b) or clause (c). (4) No tax, interest or penalty shall be determined under sub-section (3) without giving the person concerned an opportunity of being heard. (5) On payment of amount referred in sub-se

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Section 128 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 128. Power to waive penalty or fee or both.- The Government may, by notification, waive in part or full, any penalty referred to in section 122 or section 123 or section 125 or any late fee referred to in section 47 for such class of taxpayers and under such mitigating circumstances as may be specified therein on the recommendations of the Council. – – statute, statutor

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Section 127 – GST – States – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES – Mizoram Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – 127. Power to impose penalty in certain cases.- Where the proper officer is of the view that a person is liable to a penalty and the same is not covered under any proceedings under section 62 or section 63 or section 64 or section 73 or section 74 or section 129 or section 130, he may issue an order levying such penalty after giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard to su

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