{"id":929,"date":"2016-08-11T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T07:43:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-11T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T07:43:29","slug":"gst-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"GST Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST Basics<br \/>By: &#8211; Smitesh Desai<br \/>Goods and Services Tax &#8211; GST<br \/>Dated:- 11-8-2016<\/p>\n<p>GST is most likely to be introduced with effect from 1st April 2017. With its introduction, the following 3 major taxes will be abolished:<br \/>\n * Central Excise Duty<br \/>\n * Service Tax<br \/>\n * Value Added Tax (VAT)<br \/>\nSupply will become the Taxable Event rather than Manufacture or Sale. GST will comprise of the following 3 elements:<br \/>\n * Central Goods &#038; Services Tax (CGST)<br \/>\n * State Goods &#038; Service Tax (SGST)<br \/>\n * Inter-State Goods &#038; Services Tax (IGST) &#8211; not a different tax, really!<br \/>\nThe taxation mechanism will operate in 2 formats:<br \/>\n * Intra-State ie. Within the state<br \/>\n * Inter-State ie. Between 2 states<br \/>\nEvery transaction will attract both the taxes is CGST +<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/article\/detailed?id=6930\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>in addition to Customs Duty.<br \/>\nInput Tax Credit (ITC) will be available to an assessee, ie manufacturer or service provider having turnover beyond the exempt limit (10.00 lacs). ITC will be operated as follows:<br \/>\n * Credit of IGST, CGST &#038; SGST will be separately availed &#038; accounted<br \/>\n * IGST credit will be first used for payment of IGST liability<br \/>\n * IGST credit remaining in balance will be utilised for payment of CGST liability<br \/>\n * IGST credit remaining in balance will be utilised for payment of SGST liability<br \/>\n * CGST credit will be first used for payment of CGST liability<br \/>\n * Balance of CGST credit will be then be used for payment of IGST liability<br \/>\n * CGST credit cannot be used for payment of SGST liability<br \/>\n * SGST credit will be usable f<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/article\/detailed?id=6930\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>e from credits. The assessee will not have much say about credit management because the credit register maintained at the assessee&#39;s desktop must also be uploaded into the NSDL+RBI driven software, for computation of net GST liability. GST liability will be computed through the output register maintained by the assessee &#038; uploaded on the RBI+NSDL software. The following chart explains the ITC &#038; cash payment mechanism:<br \/>\nCGST<br \/>\nSGST<br \/>\nIGST<br \/>\nOpening Balance<br \/>\nFresh Credits<br \/>\nCredit Available<br \/>\nCredits Utilised<br \/>\nClosing Balance\/Cash Payment<br \/>\nISD mechanism remains intact. Branch transfer will attract GST. Exports will remain zero-rated.<br \/>\n Reply By ramniranjan kandoi as =<br \/>\nDear Smitesh.<br \/>\nRead your Article&quot;GST Basics&quot;<br \/>\nIt is really short &#038; sw<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/article\/detailed?id=6930\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST BasicsBy: &#8211; Smitesh DesaiGoods and Services Tax &#8211; GSTDated:- 11-8-2016 GST is most likely to be introduced with effect from 1st April 2017. With its introduction, the following 3 major taxes will be abolished: * Central Excise Duty * Service Tax * Value Added Tax (VAT) Supply will become the Taxable Event rather than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GST Basics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}