Goods and Services Tax

Section 143 – Draft-Bills-Reports – TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 143 – 143. Amount of CENVAT credit carried forward in a return to be allowed as input tax credit (1) A registered taxable person shall be entitled to take, in his electronic credit ledger, credit of the amount of cenvat credit carried forward in a return, furnished under the earlier law by him, in respect of the period ending with the day immediately preceding the appointed day in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that the taxable person shall not be allowed to take credit unless the said amount was admissible as cenvat credit under the earlier law and is also admissible as input tax credit und

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Section 142 – Draft-Bills-Reports – TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 142 – 142. Migration of existing taxpayers to GST (1) On the appointed day, every person registered under any of the earlier laws shall be issued a certificate of registration on a provisional basis in such form and manner as may be prescribed. (2) The certificate of registration issued under sub-section (1) shall be valid for a period of six months from the date of its issue: Provided that the said validity period may be extended for such further period as the Central/State Government may, on the recommendation of the Council, notify. (3) Every person to whom a certificate of registration has been issu

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Section 141 – Draft-Bills-Reports – TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 141 – CHAPTER XXV TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS 141. General provisions Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in the Act and until specifically so or otherwise prescribed or notified or done in accordance with the provisions of the Act, (a) All persons appointed by the respective Governments for discharging various functions under the Central/State laws rel

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Section 140 – Draft-Bills-Reports – REPEAL AND SAVING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 140 – CHAPTER- XXIV REPEAL AND SAVING 140. Repeal and saving (1) From the date of commencement of the Act, the (State) General Sales Tax/Value Added Tax Act, the Central Excise Act 1944, and the Central Excise Tariff Act 1985 shall apply only in respect of goods included in the entry 84 and entry 54 of the Union List and the State List respectively, of the Schedule VII to the Constitution of India. Provided that the aforesaid restriction of the application of the statutes referred above shall not- (a) Revive anything not in force or existing at the time at which the restriction takes effect; or (b) Affect the

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egal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such tax, surcharge, penalty, interest, forfeiture or punishment may be levied or imposed as if these Acts had not been so restricted. (f) Affect any proceeding including that relating to an appeal, revision, review or reference, instituted before the appointed day under the earlier law and such proceeding shall be continued under the earlier law as if this Act had not come into force and the said law had not been repealed. (2) The following Acts are hereby repealed, to the extent mentioned hereunder, namely:- (as per the taxes subsumed under GST …………….) (a) The Entry Tax Act,…………………

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Section 139 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 139 – 139. Publication of rules and notifications and laying of rules before Parliament / State Legislature (1) All rules made and notifications issued under the Act shall be published in the Official Gazette. (2) Every rule made under the Act, every notification issued under section , section , section and section (depending on the final full draft) and every order made under section , section , section and section (depending on the final full draft), other than an order relating to goods or services or both of strategic, secret, individual or personal nature, shall be laid, as soon as may be afte

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Section 138 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 138 – 138. Effect of amendments, etc., of rules, notifications or orders Where any rule, notification or order made or issued under the Act or any notification or order issued under such rule, is amended, repealed, superseded or rescinded, then, unless a different intention appears, such amendment, repeal, supersession or rescinding shall not – (a) revive anything not in force or existing at the time at which the amendment, repeal, supersession or rescinding takes effect; or (b) affect the previous operation of any rule, notification or order so amended, repealed, superseded or rescinded or anything du

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Section 137 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 137 – 137. Rounding off of tax etc. The amount of tax, interest, penalty, fine or any other sum payable, and the amount of refund or any other sum due, under the provisions of the Act shall be rounded off to the nearest rupee and, for this purpose, where such amount contains a part of a rupee consisting of paise then, if such part is fifty paise or more, it

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Section 136 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 136 – 136. Service of notice in certain circumstances (1) Any decision, order, summons, notice or other communication under the Act or the rules made thereunder shall be served by any one of the following methods, namely: – (a) by giving or tendering it directly or by a messenger including a courier to the addressee or the taxpayer or to his manager or to agent duly authorized or an advocate or a tax practitioner holding authority to appear in the proceeding on behalf of the taxpayer or to a person regularly employed by him in connection with the business, or to any adult member of family residing with

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ce of business or residence, or (i) if the mode prescribed under (h) is also not practicable for any reason, then by affixing a copy thereof on the notice board of the officer or authority who or which passed such decision or order or issued such summons or notice. (2) Every decision, order, summons, notice or any communication shall be deemed to have been served on the date on which it is tendered or published or a copy thereof is affixed in the manner provided in sub-section (1). (3) When such decision, order, summons, notice or any communication is sent by registered post, it shall be deemed to have been received by the addressee at the expiry of the period normally taken by a registered letter in transit unless the contrary is proved. –

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Section 135 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 135 – 135. Removal of difficulties (1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to any provision of the Act, the Central Government / State Government may, by general or special order published in the Gazette, do anything not inconsistent with the provisions of the Act which appears to it to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of removing the difficu

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Section 134 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 134 – 134. Instructions to GST Officers The Competent Authority may, if it considers it necessary or expedient so to do for the purpose of uniformity in the implementation of the Act, issue such orders, instructions or directions to the GST Officers as it may deem fit, and thereupon all GST officers and all other persons employed in the execution of the Act

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Section 133 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 133 – 133. Delegation of powers The Competent Authority may, by notification in the Gazette direct that subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the notification, any power exercisable by any authority or officer under the Act may be exercisable also by another authority or officer as may be specified in such notification. – Statutory Prov

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Section 132A – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 132A – 132A. General power to make Regulations (1) The Board or the Commissioner SGST may make regulations consistent with this Act and rules, generally to carry out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such regulations may provide for all or any of the following matters namely- (a) ..

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Section 132 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 132 – 132. Power of Central (or State) Government to make rules (1) The Central Government (or the State Government) may, on the recommendation of the Council, make rules, including rules conferring the power to issue notifications with retrospective effect under those rules, to carry into effect the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may – (i) provide for the date for determination of rate of tax and the place of supply of goods or services or both; (ii) having regard to the normal practice in the supply of goods or services, define or specify the kinds of trade discount to be excluded from the value under section 15 including the circumstances in which and the conditions subject to which such discount is to be so excluded; (iii) provide for determining the value of

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AT credit rules) lying with the taxable persons on the date of their switching over to GST; (viii) provide for the remission of tax leviable on any taxable supplies, which due to any natural causes are found to be deficient in quantity, the limit or limits of percentage beyond which no such remission shall be allowed and the different limit or limits of percentage for different varieties of the same taxable supply or for different areas or for different seasons; (ix) specify the persons who shall get themselves registered under section 19 and the time, manner and form in which application for registration shall be made; (x) provide for the manner of verification of application and issue of registration under the Act and the fees, if any, to be charged therefor; (xi) provide for the situations and manner of grant of deemed registration under the Act; (xii) provide for the manner of migration, amendment, surrender, revocation, suspension, cancellation of registration under the Act; (xiii

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respect of which breaches of the Act or rules made thereunder have been committed and the disposal of things so detained or attached or confiscated; (xviii) authorise and regulate the composition of offences against, or liabilities incurred under the Act or the rules made thereunder; (xix) provide for the amount to be paid for compounding and the manner of compounding of offences under section 78; (xx) provide for publication, subject to such conditions as may be specified, the names and other particulars of persons found guilty of contravention of any provision of the Act or of any rule made thereunder; (xxi) provide for the manner of recovery of any amount due to the Central Government (or state government) under section 54; (xxii) authorise and regulate the inspection and audit of business premises and provide for the taking of samples, and for the making of tests, of any substance produced therein, and for the inspection or search of any place or conveyance used for the production,

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Act; (xxviii) regulate in such manner as the Central Government / State Government thinks fit, the movement of supplies from any part of India to any other part thereof; (xxix) regulate the removal of taxable supplies of goods from the place where produced, stored or manufactured or subjected to any process of production or manufacture and their transport to or from the premises of a registered person, or a bonded warehouse, or to a market; (xxx) provide for the appointment, licensing, management and supervision of bonded warehouses and the procedure to be followed for entry of goods into such warehouses and clearance of goods therefrom; (xxxi) provide for the distinguishing of supply of goods which have been manufactured after registration, of materials which have been imported, and of supply of goods on which tax has been paid, or which are exempt from tax under this Act, or any other class of goods as may be specified in such rules; (xxxii) require that taxable supplies of specifie

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ent (or the State Government) under this section; (xxxvii) provide for the manner of provisional attachment of property under section 58; (xxxviii) make provisions for determining export of taxable supply of services; (xxxix) provide for grant of exemption to, or rebate of tax paid on, taxable supply of services which are exported out of India; (xl) provide for manner of administering of payment of taxes under the compounding of tax; (xli) provide for dealing with situations where goods are returned; (xlii) provide for specifying the details to be given in the invoices, the maintenance of accounts, the furnishing of audit reports, and matters related thereto; (xliii) provide for the qualifications and the manner of appointment of the Advance Ruling authority under section 95 of the Act, and other matters related to functioning of the authority; (xliv) provide for the qualifications of tax return preparers, tax practitioners and authorized representatives under various provisions of the

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Levy of fees – Section 131 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 131 – 131. Levy of fees Wherever a copy of an

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Bar of jurisdiction of civil courts – Section 130 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 130 – 130. Bar of juri

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Section 129 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 129 – 129. Rectification of mistakes or errors apparent from record Without prejudice to the provisions of section 128, and notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, any authority, who has passed or issued any decision or order or summons or notice or certificate or any other document, may rectify any error or mistake which is apparent from record in such decision or order or summons or notice or certificate or any other document, either on its own motion or where such error or mistake is brought to its notice by any CGST / SGST officer or by the affected person within a p

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Section 128 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 128 – 128. Assessment proceedings, etc. not to be invalid on certain grounds (1) No assessment, re-assessment, adjudication, review, revision, appeal, rectification, notice, summons or other proceedings done, accepted, made, issued, initiated, or purported to have been done, accepted, made, issued, initiated in pursuance of any of the provisions of the Act

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Section 127 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 127 – 127. Publication of information respecting persons in certain cases (1) If the Competent Authority is of opinion that it is necessary or expedient in the public interest to publish the names of any person and any other particulars relating to any proceedings or prosecutions under the Act in respect of such person, it may cause to be published such nam

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Section 126 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 126 – 126. Disclosure of information by a public servant (1) All particulars contained in any statement made, return furnished or accounts or documents produced in accordance with the Act, or in any record of evidence given in the course of any proceedings under the Act (other than proceeding before a Criminal Court), or in any record of any proceedings under the Act shall, save as provided in subsection (4), be treated as confidential; (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), no Court shall save as aforesaid, be entitled to require any GST officer to produce

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e Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) or the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (49 of 1988), or the Act, or any other law for the time being in force; or (b) any such particulars to the Central Government or the State Government or to any person acting in the execution of this Act, for verification of such particulars or for the purpose of carrying out the object of the Act; or (c) any such particulars when such disclosure is occasioned by the lawful employment under the Act of any process for the service of any notice or the recovery of any demand; or (d) any such particulars to a Civil Court or Tribunal constituted under any Central law in any suit or proceeding, to which the Government or any authority under the Act is a party, which relates

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n such disclosure is occasioned by the lawful exercise by a public servant or any other statutory authority, of his or its powers under any law for the time being in force; or (i) any such particulars relevant to any inquiry into a charge of misconduct in connection with any proceedings under the Act against a practising advocate, tax practitioner, a practising cost accountant, a practising chartered accountant, a practising company secretary to the authority empowered to take disciplinary action against the members practising the profession of a legal practitioner, cost accountant, chartered accountant or company secretary, as the case may be; or (j) any such particulars to any agency appointed for the purposes of data entry on any automat

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Indemnity – Section 125 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 125 – 125. Indemnity No legal proceedings shall

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Section 124 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 124 – 124. Persons discharging functions under the Act shal

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Burden of Proof – Section 123 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 123 – 123. Burden of Proof If any person c

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Drawal of samples – Section 122 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 122 – 122. Drawal of samples The [Commis

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Section 121 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 121 – 121. Test purchase of goods and/or services The [Commissioner] of CGST/SGST or an officer authorized by him may cause purchase of any goods and/or services by any person authorized by him from the business premises of any taxable person, to check issue of tax invoices or bills of supply by such taxable person, and on return of goods so purchased by su

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Section 120 – Draft-Bills-Reports – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 120 – 120. Disclosure of information required under section 119 (1) No information of any individual return or part thereof, with respect to any matter given for the purposes of section 119 shall, without the previous consent in writing of the taxpayer or person or his authorised agent, be published in such manner as to enable any particulars to be identified as referring to a particular taxpayer and no such information shall be used for the purpose of any proceedings under the provisions of the Act. (2) Except for the purposes of prosecution under the Act, or any other Act, no person who is not engage

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which the offence continues subject to a maximum limit of one thousand rupees. (4) If any person engaged in connection with the collection of statistics under section 119 or compilation or computerization thereof willfully discloses any information or the contents of any return given or made under that section, otherwise than in execution of his duties under that section or for the purposes of the prosecution of an offence under the Act or under any other Act, he shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both: Provided that, no prosecution shall be instituted under the subsection, except with the previous sanction of the Central

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