Goods and Services Tax

Section 107 – Draft-Bills-Reports – PRESUMPTION AS TO DOCUMENTS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 107 – 107. 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 (hereinafter referred to as a computer printout ), if the conditions mentioned in sub-section (2) and the other provisions contained in this section are satisfied in relation to the statement and the computer in question; or d) any information stored electronically in any device or media, including any hard copies made of such information shall be deemed to be also a document f

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d, the computer was operating properly or, if not, then any respect in which it was not operating properly or was out of operation during that part of that period was not such as to affect the production of the document or the accuracy of the contents; and d) the information contained in the statement reproduced or is derived from information supplied to the computer in the ordinary course of the said activities. (3) Where over any period, the function of storing or processing information for the purposes of any activities regularly carried on over that period as mentioned in clause (a) of sub-section (2) was regularly performed by computers, whether – a) by a combination of computers operating over that period; or b) by different computers operating in succession over that period; or c) by different combinations of computers operating in succession over that period; or d) in any other manner involving the successive operation over that period, in whatever order, of one or more compute

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he management of the relevant activities (whichever is appropriate) shall be evidence of any matter stated in the certificate; and for the purposes of this sub-section it shall be sufficient for a matter to be stated to the best of the knowledge and belief of the person stating it. (5) For the purposes of this section, – a) information shall be taken to be supplied to a computer if it is supplied thereto in any appropriate form and whether it is so supplied directly or (with or without human intervention) by means of any appropriate equipment; b) whether in the course of activities carried on by any official, information is supplied with a view to its being stored or processed for the purposes of those activities by a computer operated otherwise than in the course of those activities, that information, if duly supplied to that computer, shall be taken to be supplied to it in the course of those activities; c) a document shall be taken to have been produced by a computer whether it was

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Section 106 – Draft-Bills-Reports – PRESUMPTION AS TO DOCUMENTS – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 106 – CHAPTER- XXI PRESUMPTION AS TO DOCUMENTS 106. Presumption as to documents in certain cases Where any document- (i) is produced by any person under the Act or any other law, or (ii) has been seized from the custody or control of any person under the Act or any other law, or (iii) has been received from any place within or outside India in the course

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SETTLEMENT OF CASES – Section – Draft-Bills-Reports – SETTLEMENT OF CASES – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section – CHAPTER- XX SETTLEMENT OF CASES At present, t

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Section 105 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 105 – 105. Procedure of the Authority and the Appellate Authority The

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Section 104 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 104 – 104. Powers of the Authority and Appellate Authority (1) The Authority or, as the case may be, the Appellate Authority shall, for the purpose of exercising its powers regarding discovery and inspection, enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath, issuing commissions and compelling production of books of account and other records, have all

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Section 103 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 103 – 103. Advance ruling to be void in certain circumstances (1) Where the Authority or, as the case may be, the Appellate Authority finds that advance ruling pronounced by it under sub-section (4) of section 98 or under sub-section (1) of section 100 has been obtained by the applicant or, as the case may be, the appellant by fraud or suppression of material facts o

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Section 102 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 102 – 102. Applicability of advance ruling (1) The advance ruling pronounced by the Authority or, as the case may be, the Appellate Authority under this chapter shall be binding only – (a) on the applicant who had sought it in respect of any matter referred to in subsection (2) of section 97 of the application for advance ruling; (b) on the jurisdictional tax authori

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Section 101 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 101 – 101. Rectification of advance ruling The Authority or, as the case may be, the Appellate Authority may amend any order passed by it under section 98 or section 100, as the case may be, so as to rectify any mistake apparent from the record, if such mistake is noticed by the Authority or, as the case may be, the Appellate Authority on its own accord, or is brough

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Section 100 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 100 – 100. Orders of the Appellate Authority (1) The Appellate Authority may, after giving the parties to the appeal, an opportunity of being heard, pass such order as it thinks fit, confirming or modifying the ruling appealed against. (2) The order referred to in sub-section (1) shall be passed within a period of ninety days from the date of filing appeal under sect

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Section 99 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 99 – 99. Appeal to the Appellate Authority (1) The prescribed or jurisdictional CGST/SGST officer or, as the case may be, an applicant aggrieved by any advance ruling pronounced under sub-section (4) of section 98, may appeal to the Appellate Authority. (2) Every appeal under this section shall be filed within a period of thirty days from the date on which the ruling

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Section 98 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 98 – 98. Procedure on receipt of application (1) On receipt of an application, the Authority shall cause a copy thereof to be forwarded to the officers as may be prescribed and, if necessary, call upon him to furnish the relevant records: Provided that where any records have been called for by the Authority in any case, such records shall, as soon as possible, be returned to the said prescribed officers. (2) The Authority may, after examining the application and the records called for and after hearing the applicant or authorized representative of the applicant as well as the authorized representative of the pres

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s sub-section unless an opportunity has been given to the applicant of being heard: Provided also that where the application is rejected, reasons for such rejection shall be given in the order. (3) A copy of every order made under sub-section (2) shall be sent to the applicant and to the prescribed officers. (4) Where an application is admitted under sub-section (2), the Authority shall, after examining such further material as may be placed before it by the applicant or obtained by the Authority and after providing an opportunity of being heard to the applicant or the authorized representative of the applicant as well as to the authorized representative of the prescribed or the jurisdictional CGST/SGST officer, pronounce its advance ruling

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Section 97 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 97 – 97. Application for advance ruling (1) An applicant desirous of obtaining an advance ruling under this Chapter may make an application in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, stating the question on which the advance ruling is sought. (2) The question on which the advance ruling is sought shall be in respect of, (a) classification of any goods and/o

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Section 96 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 96 – 96. Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling (1) The Appellate Auth

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Section 95 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 95 – 95. Authority for Advance Ruling (1) The Authority shall be located in each State. (2) The Authority shall comprise one member CGST and one member SGST to be appointed respectively by the Central Government and the State Government. (3) The qualifications, eligibility conditions, method and the process of appointment of the members shall be as may be prescribed.

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Section 94 – Draft-Bills-Reports – ADVANCE RULING – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 94 – CHAPTER- XIX ADVANCE RULING 94. Definitions In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, – (a) advance ruling means a written decision provided by the Authority or, as the case may be, the Appellate Authority to an applicant on matters or on questions specified in sub-section (2) of section 97 or sub-section (1) of section 99, as the case may be, in re

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Section 93 – Draft-Bills-Reports – APPEALS AND REVISION – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 93 – 93. Non Appealable decisions and orders Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any provisions of this Act, no appeal shall lie against any decision taken or order passed by a GST officer if such decision taken or order passed relates to any one or more of the following matters:- (a) An order of the Commissioner or other competent authority for transfer

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Section 92 – Draft-Bills-Reports – APPEALS AND REVISION – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 92 – 92. Appeal not to be filed in certain cases (1) The Board or the State Government may, on the recommendation of the Council, from time to time, issue orders or instructions or directions fixing such monetary limits, as it may deem fit, for the purposes of regulating the filing of appeal or application by the GST officer under the provisions of this Chapter. (2) Where, in pursuance of the orders or instructions or directions, issued under subsection (1), the GST officer has not filed an appeal or application against any decision or order passed under the provisions of this Act, it shall not preclude suc

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Section 91 – Draft-Bills-Reports – APPEALS AND REVISION – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 91 – 91. Exclusion of time taken for copy In computing the period of limitation prescribed for an appeal or application under this Chapter, the day on which the order complained of was served, and if the party preferring the appeal or making the application was not furnished with a copy of the order when the notice of the order was served upon him, the time requ

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Section 90 – Draft-Bills-Reports – APPEALS AND REVISION – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 90 – 90. Sums due to be paid notwithstanding appeal etc. Notwithstanding that an appeal has been preferred to the High Court or the Supreme Court, sums due to the Government as a result of an order passed by the Appellate Tribunal under sub-section (1) of section 83 or an order passed by the High Court under section 87, as the case may be, shall be payable in ac

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Section 89 – Draft-Bills-Reports – APPEALS AND REVISION – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 89 – 89. Hearing before Supreme Court (1) The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), relating to appeals to the Supreme Court shall, so far as may be, apply in the case of appeals under section 88 as they apply in the case of appeals from decrees of a High Court : Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be deemed to affect the provi

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Section 88 – Draft-Bills-Reports – APPEALS AND REVISION – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 88 – 88. Appeal to the Supreme Court (1) An appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court from any judgment or order passed by the High Court in an appeal made under section 87, in any case which, on its own motion or on an oral application made by or on behalf of the party aggrieved, immediately after passing of the judgment or order, the High Court certifies to be a f

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Section 87 – Draft-Bills-Reports – APPEALS AND REVISION – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 87 – 87. Appeal to the High Court (1) The Commissioner of GST or the other party aggrieved by any order passed by the Appellate Tribunal under section 83 may file an appeal to the High Court and the High Court may admit such appeal if it is satisfied that the case involves a substantial question of law. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub section (1), no appeal shall lie to High Court against an order passed by the Appellate Tribunal under section 83 if such order relates, among other things, to:- i) a matter where two or more States, or a State and Center, have a difference of views regarding the tre

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thin that period. (5) Where the High Court is satisfied that a substantial question of law is involved in any case, it shall formulate that question. (6) The appeal shall be heard only on the question so formulated, and the respondents shall, at the hearing of the appeal, be allowed to argue that the case does not involve such question: Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be deemed to take away or abridge the power of the Court to hear, for reasons to be recorded, the appeal on any other substantial question of law not formulated by it, if it is satisfied that the case involves such question. (7) The High Court shall decide the question of law so formulated and deliver such judgment thereon containing the grounds on which such d

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Section 86 – Draft-Bills-Reports – APPEALS AND REVISION – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 86 – 86. Appearance by authorised representative (1) Any person who is entitled or required to appear before a GST Officer appointed under this Act, or the First Appellate Authority or the Appellate Tribunal in connection with any proceedings under the Act, may, otherwise than when required under this Act to appear personally for examination on oath or affirmation, subject to the other provisions of this section, appear by an authorized representative. (2) For the purposes of this section, authorised representative means a person authorised by the person referred to in sub-section (1) to appear on his behal

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er having served for not less than two years as a Gazetted officer in that department shall be entitled to appear as an authorised representative in any proceedings before a GST Officer for a period of one year from the date of his retirement or resignation, as the case may be. (4) No person, – a) who has been dismissed or removed from government service; or b) who is convicted of an offence connected with any proceeding under this Act, the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) or Chapter V of the Finance Act 1994 (25 of 2014) or under any of the Acts passed by a state legislature dealing with the imposition of taxes on sale of goods or supply of goods and/or services, or c) who has become an insolvent, sh

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tion (1). (6) Any order or direction under clause (b) of sub-section (4) or sub-section (5) shall be subject to the following conditions, namely:- a) no such order or direction shall be made in respect of any person unless he has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard; b) any person against whom any such order or direction is made may, within one month of the making of the order or direction, appeal to the competent authority [Central/State Government] to have the order or direction cancelled; and c) no such order or direction shall take effect until the expiration of one month from the making thereof, or, where an appeal has been preferred, until the disposal of the appeal. – Statutory Provisions, Acts, Rules, Regulations, Taxa

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Section 85 – Draft-Bills-Reports – APPEALS AND REVISION – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 85 – 85. Interest on delayed refund of pre-deposit Where an amount deposited by the appellant under sub-section (6)/(4) of section 79 or under sub-section (10)/(7) of section 82 is required to be refunded consequent to any order of the First Appellate Authority or of the Appellate Tribunal, as the case may be, interest at the rate specified under section 39 shal

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Section 84 – Draft-Bills-Reports – APPEALS AND REVISION – MODEL GST LAW – GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2016 – Draft June 2016 – Section 84 – 84. Procedure of Appellate Tribunal (1) The powers and functions of the Appellate Tribunal may be exercised and discharged by Benches constituted by the National President or the State Presidents from amongst the members thereof. (2) Subject to the provisions contained in sub-section (3), a Bench shall consist of one Member (Judicial), one Member (Technical – CGST) and one Member (Technical – SGST). (3) The National President or a State President, or any other member of the Appellate Tribunal authorized in this behalf by the National President or a State President, may, sitting singly, dispose of any c

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unal and such point or points shall be decided according to the opinion of the majority of these members of the Appellate Tribunal who have heard the case, including those who first heard it. (5) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Appellate Tribunal shall have power to regulate its own procedure and the procedure of the Benches thereof in all matters arising out of the exercise of its powers or of the discharge of its functions, including the places at which the Benches shall hold their sittings. (6) The Appellate Tribunal shall, for the purposes of discharging its functions, have the same powers as are vested in a court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), when trying a suit in respect of the following matters, name

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