Section 2 – GST – States – PRELIMINARY – Rajasthan Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 – Act-Rules – Definitions. 02. 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 (Central Act No. 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
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Authority means an authority 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 judgment assessment; (12) associated enterprises shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in section 92A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (Central Act No. 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 comp
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s in connection with commencement or closure of business; (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
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ere he has no fixed place of business; (21) central tax means the central goods 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 (Central Act No. 38 of 1949); (24) Commissioner means the Commissioner of State tax appointed under section 3 and includes the Principal Commissioner or Chief 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
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ther in money or otherwise, 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; (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 co
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under sub-section (1) of section 34; (38) debit note means a document issued by a registered person under sub-section (3) of section 34; (39) deemed exports 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 (Central Act No. 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
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the person if they are wholly or mainly dependent on the said person; (50) fixed establishment means a place (other than the registered place of business) which is characterised 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 Rajasthan; (54) Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act means the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act, 2017(Central Act No. 15 of 2017) ; (55) goods and services tax practitioner means any person who has bee
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furtherance of business; (61) Input Service Distributor means an office of the supplier of goods or services or both which receives tax invoices issued under section 31 towards the receipt of input services and issues a prescribed document for the purposes of distributing 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;
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69) local authority means- (a) a Panchayat as defined in clause (d) of article 243 of the Constitution; (b) a Municipality as defined in clause (e) of article 243P of the Constitution; (c) a Municipal Committee, a Zilla Parishad, a District Board, and any other authority 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 (Central Act No. 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
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the place of business or fixed establishment, the location of the establishment most directly concerned with the provisions of the supply; and (d) in absence of such places, the location of the usual place of residence of the supplier; (72) manufacture means processing of raw material or inputs in any manner that 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.
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person means any person who occasionally undertakes transactions involving supply of goods or services or both, whether as principal or agent or in any other capacity, but who has no fixed place of business or residence in India; (78) non-taxable supply‟‟ means a supply of goods or services or both which is not leviable to tax under this 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 exclu
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ieties; (j) a local authority; (k) Central Government or a State Government; (l) society as defined under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Central Act No. 21 of 1860); (m) trust; and (n) every artificial juridical person, not falling within any of the above; (85) place of business includes- (a) a place from where the business is ordinarily carried on, and includes a warehouse, 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 perso
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y that consideration; (b) where no consideration is payable for the supply of goods, the person to whom the goods are delivered or made available, or to whom possession or use of the goods is given or made available; and (c) where no consideration is payable for the supply of a service, the person to whom the service is rendered, and any reference to a person to whom a supply is made shall be construed as a reference to the recipient 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 perso
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1956); (102) services means anything other than goods, money and securities but includes activities relating to the use of money or its conversion by cash or by any other mode, from one form, currency or denomination, to another form, currency or denomination for which a separate consideration is charged; (103) State means the State of Rajasthan; (104) State tax means the tax levied under this Act; (105) supplier in relation to any goods or services or both, shall 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 t
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ces or both and inter-State supplies of goods or services or both made from the State or Union territory by the said taxable person but excludes Central tax, State tax, Union territory tax, integrated tax and cess; (113) usual place of residence means- (a) in case of an individual, the place where he ordinarily resides; (b) in other cases, the place where the person is incorporated or otherwise legally constituted; (114) Union territory means the territory of- (a) the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; (b) Lakshadweep; (c) Dadra 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 S
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