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  • CESTAT Kolkata Grants Relief to Commission Agent in Insurance Service Tax Case
  • Landmark Service Tax Ruling: Supreme Court Holds BPCL & HPCL Liable as “Commission Agents” for CNG Sales to Mahanaga
  • Delhi HC Waives Service Tax Penalty, Holds Bona Fide Belief in Non-Taxability a Reasonable Cause u/s 80

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blog.saginfotech.com /4 weeks ago

CESTAT Kolkata Grants Relief to Commission Agent in Insurance Service Tax Case

The Kolkata bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) overturned the service tax demand on insurance commissions received by the commission agent. T...

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amlegals.com /1 month ago

Landmark Service Tax Ruling: Supreme Court Holds BPCL & HPCL Liable as “Commission Agents” for CNG Sales to Mahanaga...

Introduction The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, in Commissioner of Service Tax, Mumbai v. M/s Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. & Ors., C.A. No. 2471-2473 OF 2015 : 2026 INSC...

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blog.saginfotech.com /2 days ago

Delhi HC Waives Service Tax Penalty, Holds Bona Fide Belief in Non-Taxability a Reasonable Cause u/s 80

The Delhi High Court has mentioned that a bona fide and reasonable presumption of non-taxability constitutes a reasonable cause u/s 80 of the Finance Act, 1994, especially when the...

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hoteliermaldives.com /3 weeks ago

Extending TGST offshore: Three questions the proposed GST amendment has yet to answer

People’s Majlis is now considering a government-backed amendment to the Goods and Services Tax Act (Law No. 10/2011) that would, for the first time, require foreign tour operators,...

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blog.saginfotech.com /3 weeks ago

Delhi (PB) GSTAT Sustains ₹14.26 Lakh Anti-Profiteering Demand; Theatres Can’t Raise Ticket Prices to Offset GST Reducti...

The New Delhi Principal Bench of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) has said that theatres cannot keep the benefit of Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate reduction...

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globalkashmir.net /1 month ago

Opinion | GST TDS, GSTR-7 and the Gross-Turnover-versus-Taxable-Turnover Puzzle: What Every Contractor, DDO and Tax Offi...

A works contractor from Srinagar spends three years executing running-account bills for a Government Department. Every month, two percent is quietly deducted from his bill before p...

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com /1 month ago

July GST collections up 15.4% to Rs 2.1 L cr on higher imports

Goods and Services Tax collections rose 15.4 percent to Rs 2,11,205 crore in July. This increase was largely due to a 29 percent jump in integrated GST on imports. Strong economic...

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amlegals.com /1 week ago

Misclassified Tax Cannot Become A Lawful Levy: Limitation Cannot Validate An Unauthorised Tax Collection

Introduction The question of whether the Government can retain an amount collected as tax despite the absence of a lawful statutory liability has repeatedly arisen under the erstwh...

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tribune.com.pk /1 week ago

Retailers on tax net jump 31%

Tax payments rise 16% to Rs132b but doctors resist integration

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blog.saginfotech.com /4 weeks ago

Delhi ITAT Directs CIT(A) to Decide Whether CAM Charges Attract 2% TDS U/S 194C or 10% U/S 194-I

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), Delhi Bench, in this case, has mentioned that the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) [CIT(A)] should determine whether Tax Deducted at S...

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greaterkashmir.com /1 month ago

9-Year Journey of GST

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) was implemented on July 1, 2017, under the banner of “One Nation, One Tax, One Market”. In Jammu & Kashmir, it was implemented on July 8th 2017...

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blog.saginfotech.com /4 weeks ago

Karnataka HC Rules GST Can’t Be Levied on Building Plan Sanction Charges

The Karnataka High Court has stated that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) should not be applied to fees collected for approving building plans. According to the court, this approva...

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blog.saginfotech.com /1 month ago

GSTAT Activates Token Generation Facility to Resolve E-Filing Appeal Portal Issues

The Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) has activated a token generation facility to assist appellants experiencing technical issues while filing appeals through its...

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telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com /2 weeks ago

Tribunal deletes Reliance Jio Infocomm's ₹11,000 crore tax disallowance

The disputed amount of ₹11,003 crore comprised interconnect charges, employee costs, professional fees, call-centre expenses, power and fuel, repairs and maintenance, network opera...

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blog.saginfotech.com /1 month ago

Delhi HC Declines Plea Against 18% Tax on Diagnostic Services, Directs Matter to GST AAR

The Delhi High Court declined to examine a challenge to the levy of 18% Goods and Services Tax (GST) on diagnostic services provided by a private laboratory, observing that the mat...

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blog.saginfotech.com /1 month ago

DGTS and Belapur Commissionerate Host Hybrid GST Seminar for Industry and Tax Experts

The Directorate General of Taxpayer Services (DGTS), Mumbai Zonal Unit, in collaboration with the CGST & Central Excise, Belapur Commissionerate, organised a Hybrid Seminar-cum...

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thetaxtalk.com /1 month ago

TDS on Faculty Payments: Salary Under Section 192 or Professional Fees Under Section 194J? ITAT Cochin Clarifies the Law

TDS on Faculty Payments: Salary Under Section 192 or Professional Fees Under Section 194J? ITAT Cochin Clarifies the Law Keywords: TDS on faculty payments, Section 192 vs Section 1...

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blog.saginfotech.com /2 weeks ago

Delhi HC: Education Advisory Services to Foreign Universities Qualify as Export of Services, Not Intermediary Services

The Hon’ble Delhi High Court in the case of Fateh Education Consulting Private Limited v. Assistant Commissioner & Ors said that education consultancy/marketing and recruitment...

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businesstoday.in /1 month ago

GST collections jump 15.4% to ₹2.11 lakh crore in July, import tax revenues surge nearly 29%

India's GST collections continued their strong momentum in July, with gross revenues rising 15.4% year-on-year to ₹2.11 lakh crore, driven by robust domestic collections and a shar...

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blog.saginfotech.com /3 weeks ago

Delhi HC: Advocates Acting as Insolvency Professionals Mandated to Obtain GST Registration

In a crucial ruling for the legal and financial sector, the Delhi High Court has declared that advocates who also provide services as Insolvency Professionals must obtain a separat...

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webkul.com /1 month ago

Laravel Multi Tenant SaaS GST Module User Guide

Laravel eCommerce SaaS GST extension adds the Indian Goods and Services Tax structure to a multi‑tenant Bagisto SaaS setup. Using it, every tenant of the SaaS platform can add the...

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com /6 days ago

Couple buys Rs 60L flat, husband taxed on Rs 34.81L stamp-duty gap; ITAT objects

Can the entire difference between a property’s actual purchase price and its stamp-duty value be added to the income of just one of its co-owners? A recent ruling by ITAT Mumbai ha...

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blog.saginfotech.com /2 weeks ago

UP Board Mandates 18% GST on School Recognition Fees

Schools that apply for fresh recognition or affiliation with the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UP Board) will now have to pay 18 percent GST on the applicable recogniti...

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thetaxtalk.com /1 month ago

Breaking News: Supreme Court Upholds Gujarat High Court Verdict – No GST on Transfer of Long-Term Leasehold Rights of In...

Breaking News: Supreme Court Upholds Gujarat High Court Verdict – No GST on Transfer of Long-Term Leasehold Rights of Industrial Plots   A Major Relief for Industry, Businesses &am...

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