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CBIC enables Form PMT-09 for Shifting Wrongly Paid Input Tax Credit

April 22, 2020 admin Comments 0 Comment

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs ( CBIC ) has enabled the Form PMT-09 for shifting the wrongly paid the Input Tax Credit ( ITC ).

The CBIC has recently introduced Form PMT-09 (i.e. a challan) for shifting wrongly paid Input Tax Credit. This enables a registered taxpayer to transfer any amount of tax, interest, penalty, etc. that is available in the electronic cash ledger, to the appropriate tax or cess head under IGST, CGST and SGST in the electronic cash ledger.

Hence, if a taxpayer has wrongly paid CGST instead of SGST, he can now rectify the same using Form PMT-09 by reallocating the amount from the CGST head to the SGST head.

All taxpayers registered under GST are eligible to shift any balances available in the electronic cash ledger using Form GST PMT-09. The option is available after the taxpayer logs in, under the electronic cash ledger tab. Thus, a taxpayer can now easily rectify wrongly paid taxes or other amounts.

Source: TaxScan

Govt not cutting GST on PPEs, masks, to save local cos from cheap imports

April 21, 2020 admin Comments 0 Comment

The government is holding back on any GST rate reduction for items like PPE, ventilators, test kits, and sanitisers, as this could end up encouraging ‘sub-standard imports’ from China.

Government sources clarified on this after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi raised the issue on Twitter, arguing that it was wrong to levy GST on such items from people who were dealing with poverty and disease.

On the contrary, sources said, GST exemption would make prices fall leading to hardships and distortion for domestic manufacturers without much cost-benefit to the consumers. They said such a step would ensure imports get an advantage on domestic supplies, especially in PPE where the hardship on account of GST exemption would be “severe” for domestic units as basic customs duty on the item is nil up to September 30, 2020.

“The recent experience shows that sub-standard quality goods are exported by China to India and the world. Therefore, incentivising imports by the reduction of GST, at the cost of domestic units, may not be a desirable option,” a government source said.

Sources also explained that distorting the rate structure at the cost of domestic supplier may not be desirable in a situation where government is the biggest buyer of these goods and is supplying these goods for free. “The GST on said items is mostly borne by the Governments. Domestic units are making serious efforts to ramp up their capacities. In certain cases, like masks and sanitisers, the items are being procured by individuals too. Putting domestic manufacturers at disadvantage viz a viz imports may not be desirable,” the sources said.

It was further explained that GST exemption leads to a blocked input tax credit (ITC) thus increasing the cost of manufacturing for domestic manufacturers. “Even if GST on PPE is reduced to nil, the total cost would remain unchanged. While GST exemption to PPE would make output GST as zero, the ITC (GST suffered on inputs) would get blocked and would get added to the cost. Therefore, while the consumer does not gain from GST exemption, the compliance burden would increase for the manufacturer,” sources said. They added that imports would not suffer any such block ITC and thus, imports get an advantage. Sources said GST exemption on sanitary pads had led to a similar situation for domestic manufacturers of the product.

The government had exempted basic customs duty and health cess on such items, except sanitisers till September 30 given the immediate need for such items from abroad. “But GST exemption on such items is in a different footing and has significant cons without much gains to the consumer,” sources added.

Source: Economic-Times

CBIC processes 12923 GST Refund applications involving claims worth Rs 5575 Cr amid Lockdown

April 20, 2020 admin Comments 0 Comment

CBIC said that it is fully committed to helping the GST taxpayers in the present COVID-19 situation. Since 30th March 2020, CBIC has processed 12923 refund applications involving claims worth Rs. 5575 Cr. While in the last week itself, CBIC has processed 7873 claims worth.. 3854 Cr. CBIC said that a trade and business-friendly measure taken by CBIC .de its Circular No. 133 da.d 31.03.2020. help GST returns filers to facilitate early ITC refunds and to ensure that the wrong ITC claims are not processed in the absence of relevant information, is misconstrued in certain sections of social media and other media as troubling the taxpayers in COVID -19 like situation.

CBIC said that this measure was taken into effect with GST Council’s approval in its 39th Meeting held on 14.03.2020. mitigate delays in I’M refunds faced by the taxpayers besides ensuring that wrong ITC claims are not processed. It had been brought to the notice of GSTC by various stakeholders including the taxpayers. It was noticed that lot of time is spent in the verification of whether the credit was availed on services and Capital Goods in certain categories for the refund claims.

CBIC said that in order. address the difficulty faced by trade in providing this data at the time of processing of claim leading to delays and an increase in compliance cost, it was decided in the GST Council. make declaration of classification codes a part of the application itself. The GST Council in the same meeting has also decided. allow bunching of periods across financial years. facilitate claim of refund by exporters. This would apply to applications filed after 31.03.2020. It may also be noted that the due date of all such applications which were due during 20th March 2020 and 29th June 2020 has been extended to 30.06.2020.

CBIC explained that the Circular No. 133 (da.d 31.03.2020) is with regard to the requirement to give HSN/SAC code along Rith the refund application. The GST Law doesn’t allow refund of credit availed on service,s and/or Capital Goods in certain categories. For example, Capital Goods ITC refund is not permissible for re.. of ITC on account of exports and other zero-rated supplies. Further, ITC availed on services and capital goods are not allowed to be refunded in the Inverted Structure Refimd category.

Source: Taxscan

Covid-19: Govt extends e-way bill validity, defers restricted ITC under GST

April 6, 2020 admin Comments 1 comment

The government on Friday extended the validity of e-way bills and deferred the application of restricted 10 per cent input tax credit under goods and services tax (GST) giving relief to the industry dealing with supply and cash flow issues amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) induced lockdown.

The validity of e-way bills that were set to expire between March 20 and April 15, has been extended till April 30 to help companies facing supply-related issues with orders stuck in transit in most cases.

“Where an e-way bill has been generated and its period of validity expires during the period 20th day of March, 2020 to 15th day of April, 2020, the validity period of such e-way bill shall be deemed to have been extended till the 30th day of April, 2020,” the finance ministry said in a notification issued late evening on Friday.

Under the GST regime, e-way bill has to be generated if goods worth over Rs 50,000 are transported. An e-way bill is valid for up to 24 hours for a distance of 100 km, depending on the size of the vehicle. However, if the vehicle does not cover 100 km within 24 hours, another bill has to be generated. For every 100 km travelled, the bill is valid for one additional day.

The central board of indirect taxes and customs (CBIC) also deferred the application of 10 per cent restriction for availing input tax credit for February, to August, and rolling over the cumulative applicability to the month of September this year. The seven-month window will ease industry’s working capital and cash flow.

In order to plug evasion, the GST Council in had in December restricted input tax credit to 10 per cent of the eligible amount for an entity if its supplier has not uploaded relevant invoices detailing the payments made. It was tightened from 20 per cent introduced in October.

The GST collections fell below the Rs 1-trillion mark in March after a gap of four months, although disruption caused due to coronavirus-induced lockdown will only get captured in the subsequent months.

Source: Business-Standard

GST Evasion: Racket busted of Large number of Non-Operational Partnership Firms falsely claiming refunds against accumulated ITC

March 19, 2020 admin Comments 0 Comment

A large number of proprietorship/partnership firms registered with Gautam Buddha Nagar and other Commissionerates of Delhi NCR which were apparently connected and had claimed a huge amount of refunds against accumulated Input Tax Credit (ITC) on account of inverted tax structure and Zero-rated supply of Goods were identified. Searches were conducted on 13.3.2020 by officers of CGST GautamBudha Nagar along with other Commissionerates at various places declared as principal places of business and residential premises located in Delhi, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Noida, and Greater Noida.

During the search, none of the firms were found to be existing/ operational at their declared premises. Further investigations revealed that two persons, apparently mastermind behind the racket, had obtained KYC documents from proprietors/ partners of these firms for consideration. All the business activities were found to be only on paper without actual movement/ supply of goods which included manufactured/unmanufactured tobacco, yarn, woven fabric & cotton yarn, other made up clothing, etc. These firms had generated invoices for passing on Input Tax Credit(ITC) ascertained to be Rs 1892 crore so far. The refund claims amounting to Rs 264 crore have been paid to these firms, out of whichRs.60 crore have been recovered so far. In addition, pending refund claims of approximately Rs 131 crore have been withheld.

Residential premises of suspected masterminds were also searched on 15.03.2020 and their statements recorded. Based on their confessional statements, they have been arrested on 16.03.2020 under Section 69 of the CGST Act.

Source: TaxScan.

GST: Input tax credit frauds rise 170% in just nine months of FY20

March 13, 2020 admin Comments 0 Comment

The number of input tax credit (ITC) fraud cases under Goods & Services Tax (GST) in the first nine months of this financial year has risen 170 per cent more than that reported in the whole of last fiscal. During the same period, the amount involved is nearly 80 per cent of full FY19.

According to a Parliamentary Committee report, tabled on Thursday, the number of ITC fraud cases, based on fake invoices during April-December of this fiscal, surged to 5,986. This number was 2,211 in the 12 months of 2018-19. In terms of amount involved, the first nine months of this fiscal recorded over ₹13,000 crore while recovery was nearly ₹550 crore. During 2018-19, the total quantum was nearly ₹10,400 crore, while recovery was a little over ₹800 crore.

GST cases booked

During the first 10 months (April-January) of the current fiscal, the number of cases was 8,335 with nearly ₹30,000 crore involved and the total recovery was nearly ₹15,000 crore. During fiscal 2018-19, the number of cases booked was over 7,300, amount involved about ₹38,000 crore and recovery nearly ₹19,000 crore.

The Committee noted that system-based analytical tools and intelligence of the Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management are being used to curb evasion in GST. It is to be noted that intensive anti-evasion efforts are being taken, particularly with respect to ITC frauds based on fake invoices.

However, the Committee observed that the monthly revenue collections from the GST are yet to stabilise. States have been reporting losses in collection, which will only increase the compensation burden of the Centre. During the current fiscal, the total target for collection of GST compensation cess is a little over ₹1.09-lakh crore, while the net collection during April-December was over ₹70,000 crore. However, GST compensation, released as per budget provision, and the actual requirement of States for the April-September period has exceeded ₹81,000 crore.

Resolution of grievances

To keep the States in sound financial health, the Committee has called for resolution of grievances by the GST Council. The panel expects the Centre to sort out the festering issues pertaining to GST at the earliest. The Committee would also urge the Finance Ministry to extend the due date for filing GST returns to 25th of every month.

Now, all eyes are on the next GST Council meeting scheduled for March 14. States are likely to raise the issue of compensation cess and discuss ways to resolve issues related to the inverted duty structure (when indirect taxes on raw material are higher while on finished products lower), which results in outflow as refund. The estimated refund on account of the inverted rate structure is about ₹20,000 crore a year.

Source: The-Hindu-Business-Line

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NAA directs GST Commissioners to ensure Profiteering Amount is passed to all eligible buyers of Flats

March 11, 2020 admin Comments 0 Comment

The National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAPA) directed the Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) or State Goods and Service Tax (SGST) Commissioners to ensure the profiteering amount is passed to all the eligible buyers of the flats. And submit a report of compliance within 4 months from the date of receipt of the order.

In the case of Abhishek Singh & Director General of Anti-Profiteering vs. M/s. Aparna Constructions and Estates Pvt. Ltd., it was observed that the respondent company denied the benefit of Input Tax Credit (ITC) to the buyers of the flat, which is the contravention of Section 171(1) of the Central Goods and Service

Tax (CGST) Act, 2017. Consequently, the respondent is liable for the penalty for the contravention of Section 171(1) CGST Act, 2017.

The respondent, in this case, is M/s. Aparna Constructions and Estates Pvt. Ltd. was a builder and it undertook the project namely ‘Aparna Serene Park’ wherein one of the flats was purchased by the Applicant. The applicant was denied the benefit of Input Tax Credit (ITC) by the company, by the way of commensurate the reduction in the price of the flat purchased by the applicant.

The issue raised in this case was whether the applicant was eligible to avail of the benefit of Input Tax Credit (ITC) or not?

The National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAPA) comprising of the Chairman, B.N. Sharma and the Technical Members, J.C. Chauhan and Amand Shah observed that the respondent company denied the benefit of Input Tax Credit (ITC) to the buyers of the flat, which is the contravention of Section 171(1) of the Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) Act, 2017. Consequently, the respondent is liable for the penalty for the contravention of Section 171(1) CGST Act, 2017.

The Authority further directed the Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) or State Goods and Service Tax (SGST) Commissioners to ensure the profiteering amount is passed to all the eligible buyers of the flats. The commissioner was asked to submit a report of compliance within 4 months from the date of receipt of the order.

Source: TaxScan.

Interest on delayed payments to figure in GST Council meet

March 6, 2020 admin Comments 0 Comment

Businesses facing the prospect of having to pay around Rs46,000 crore as interest on delayed payment of goods and services tax (GST) may get a reprieve, with the government considering calculating the interest only on their net tax liability, and with retrospective effect . The finance ministry hasn’t yet calculated the savings that would accrue to assessees as a result.

“The issue is expected to be raised at the next GST Council meeting on March 14, which will take a final call on this matter,” one of two officials who briefed HT about the plan said on condition of anonymity. The federal council, which has representation from states, is the apex decision-making body on GST matters, and is chaired by the Union finance minister.

The current position of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) is a rigid one—that interest will be calculated on gross GST. And so, it has calculated the dues on the basis of gross GST liabilities of assesses.

Meanwhile, citing a GST Council decision , taxpayers have challenged the methodology in various tribunals, saying interest should be calculated on the basis of net tax liability after factoring in assesses’ input tax credit (ITC).

Gross GST is the total tax liability of the assesses on the sale of goods and services without any input tax credit being deducted. ITC is available to all assesses on taxes paid on all procurements. Net GST liability is the difference between gross GST and ITC).

Experts said the issue rattled taxpayers on February 10, when CBIC issued an internal memo directing field offices to collect ₹46,000 crore from GST assessees.

The CBIC action was not in tune with the GST Council’s decision on December 22, 2018 at its 31st meeting. The Council decided to amend Section 50 of the Central GST Act to provide that interest be charged only on the net tax liability of the taxpayer, after taking into account the admissible input tax credit. The amendment was passed by Parliament in July 2019 along with the Budget [the Finance (No.2) Act, 2019] and received a presidential nod on August 1.

According to CBIC, as the amended Act has not yet been notified, the old position on calculation of interest is the legal position, hence assesses should pay interest on the gross amount of tax. “The GST laws, as of now, permit interest calculation on delayed GST payment on the basis of gross tax liability. This position has been upheld in the Telangana high court’s decision dated 18.04.2019,” CBIC said in a series of tweets on February 15.

The finance ministry did not respond to e-mails seeking comment.

CBIC also clarified that the interest will be calculated on the basis of net tax liability prospectively only after the government notifies the December 22, 2018 decision of the GST Council. “In spite of this position of law and the Telangana high court’s order, the central government and several state governments, on the recommendations of GST Council, amended their respective CGST/SGST (central GST/state GST) Acts to charge interest on delayed GST payment on the basis of net tax liability. Such amendments will be made prospectively,” CBIC tweeted.

Source: Hindustan-Times.

GST authorities bust a racket of fake invoicing of Rs 7896 crore

March 3, 2020 admin Comments 0 Comment

GST authorities in West Delhi busted a major racket of fake invoicing of Rs 7896 crore involving fraudulent Input Tax Credit (ITC) of Rs.1709 crore, using a network of 23 shell companies, the finance ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

The officers of Anti Evasion wing of Central Tax, Delhi West Commissionerate found that the network of fake companies procured and generated invoices without actual supply of goods and availed as well as passed on the ITC.

“The accused persons were evading tax by creating several dummy firms for the purpose of passing on ITC by generation of fake invoices,” the statement said.

“They also used banking transactions to make ITC appear genuine. These firms issued the fake invoices to buyers, who availed fraudulent input tax credit without actually receiving any goods and defrauded the exchequer by way of availing ineligible ITC towards GST liability,” it added.

Authorities have arrested two people who were caught in their hideout with several mobile phones, computers and incriminating documents. The accused been remanded to fourteen days judicial custody, and further investigation was going on.

Source: economic-times

GST collections for February stand at Rs 1.05 lakh crore, fall short of target

March 2, 2020 admin Comments 0 Comment

Goods and services tax collections for February stood at Rs 1.05 lakh crore, falling short of the Rs 1.15 lakh crore target set by the government but grossing 8% more than the revenue collection for the same month last year.

It was the fourth consecutive month when GST collections crossed Rs 1 lakh crore.

Of the total Rs 1,05,366 crore , the central GST stood at Rs 20,569 crore, state GST at Rs 27,348 crore and integrated GST at Rs 48,503 crore, which included Rs 20,745 crore collected on imports, the revenue department said in a statement on Sunday.

The GST cess stood at Rs 8,947 crore, including Rs 1,040 crore collected on imports.

The total number of GSTR 3B Returns filed for the month of January up to February 29, 2020 was 8.3 million, the department said.

The revenue department had in January reset the target for GST collections to Rs 1.15 lakh crore for February and Rs 1.25 lakh crore March. The targets were earlier Rs 1.1 lakh crore for each month.

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has been on a war footing to augment collections by reducing input tax credit (ITC) fraud. Field formations of GST authorities have been asked to focus on identifying fraudulent ITC claims while weeding out miscreants that may use fake invoices or inflated or fake e-way bills. Recently, several thousands of notices have been issued by authorities asking companies to reverse ITC which has been wrongfully claimed.

Tax authorities has also been mandated to use data analytics to check mismatch of supply and purchase invoices, mismatch in return filings, over invoicing, excess refunds availed, patching the tax leakages, fake or huge ITC claims, and refunds under inverted duty structure.

Experts said the consecutive collections of Rs 1 lakh crore was an encouraging sign for the economy, and expected collections to stabilise at this level going forward.

“The GST collections continuing at above the Rs 1 lakh mark is quite an encouraging situation for the Indian economy,” said Abhishek Jain, tax partner at EY. “One possible significant reason linked to reasonable collections is the differential liabilities discharged by businesses in reference to the observations in GST annual returns and audit for 2017-18; which was due in January 2020,” he said.

MS Mani, partner at Deloitte India, said, “These numbers indicate that the GST collections are becoming stable, with new changes like e-invoicing and new returns slated for next month, more stability is expected in future.” GST authorities would now go all out to enhance the March collections so that the deficit is reduced to the extent possible, he said.

In its statement, the revenue department said the government settled Rs 22,586 crore to CGST and Rs 16,553 crore to SGST from IGST as regular settlement. The total revenue earned by the Centre and all the states put together after regular settlement was Rs 43,155 crore and Rs 43,901 crore, respectively.

GST revenues during February from domestic transactions showed a growth of 12% year on year, the department said. Taking into account the GST collected from import of goods, the total revenue increased by 8% on year while GST on import of goods declined by 2% on year.

Source: Economic-Times.

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CBIC enables Form PMT-09 for Shifting Wrongly Paid Input Tax Credit

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Govt not cutting GST on PPEs, masks, to save local cos from cheap imports

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CBIC processes 12923 GST Refund applications involving claims worth Rs 5575 Cr amid Lockdown

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Covid-19: Govt extends e-way bill validity, defers restricted ITC under GST

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GST Evasion: Racket busted of Large number of Non-Operational Partnership Firms falsely claiming refunds against accumulated ITC

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GST: Input tax credit frauds rise 170% in just nine months of FY20

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NAA directs GST Commissioners to ensure Profiteering Amount is passed to all eligible buyers of Flats

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Interest on delayed payments to figure in GST Council meet

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GST authorities bust a racket of fake invoicing of Rs 7896 crore

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GST collections for February stand at Rs 1.05 lakh crore, fall short of target

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