{"id":9347,"date":"2017-12-11T07:40:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T02:10:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-11T07:40:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T02:10:51","slug":"a-brief-note-on-anti-profiteering-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=9347","title":{"rendered":"A Brief note on Anti-Profiteering Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brief note on Anti-Profiteering Clause<br \/>By: &#8211; Prasanna CP<br \/>Goods and Services Tax &#8211; GST<br \/>Dated:- 11-12-2017<\/p>\n<p>Anti-profiteering rules are as result of lessons learnt from inflation and increased price that was witnessed after GST implementation in other countries, Hence it makes more important for the Indian Administrators to keep track on the prices after implementation of GST.<br \/>\nThe section which empowers the Anti-Profiteering measures is reproduced as follows:<br \/>\nSection 171 of CGST Act: &#8220;Any reduction in rate of tax on any supply of goods or services or the benefit of input tax credit shall be passed on to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Central Government, on recommendations of the Council, by <\/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=7762\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>t of input tax credit to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices<br \/>\n to order:<br \/>\n * reduction in prices<br \/>\n * return to the recipient, an amount equivalent to the amount not passed on by way of commensurate reduction in prices along with interest at the rate of eighteen per cent. from the date of collection of the higher amount till the date of the return of such amount.<br \/>\n * or recovery of the amount not returned in case the eligible person does not claim return of the amount or is not identifiable, and depositing the same in the Consumer Welfare Fund.<br \/>\n * Imposition of penalty.<br \/>\n * Cancellation of registration.<br \/>\nGovernment seems to push hard with this Clause to ensure the end consumers are benefited and business entity need to<\/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=7762\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brief note on Anti-Profiteering ClauseBy: &#8211; Prasanna CPGoods and Services Tax &#8211; GSTDated:- 11-12-2017 Anti-profiteering rules are as result of lessons learnt from inflation and increased price that was witnessed after GST implementation in other countries, Hence it makes more important for the Indian Administrators to keep track on the prices after implementation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=9347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Brief note on Anti-Profiteering Clause&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347","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=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}