25 May 2017

In exercise of powers conferred in section 145(2) of Income-tax Act, 1961, Central Government had notified Income Computation and Disclosure Standards (‘ICDS’) vide Notification No. 87/2016 dated 29th September 2016.

The notified standards provided inter-alia, for recognition of revenue from construction contracts, s...

15 May 2017

Allahabad High Court has upheld the view of the Tribunal that input tax credit on MS Sheets utilized for construction of silo is available.

The Department had contended that ‘capital goods’, as defined under Section 2(f) of the Uttar Pradesh Value Added Tax Act, 2008, are goods that are movable in nature, and since s...

18 May 2017

Finding the reasons such as the importer had used the name of another firm to avoid sales tax, imports were made from trader and not from manufacturer, and the value declared was even less than the value of steel scrap, as not relatable to value of goods, CESTAT Delhi has allowed the appeal of the importer.

Similarly, the reason...

25 May 2017

Schedule containing rates of GST for both goods and services and the revised draft of 7 procedural GST Rules have been placed by the CBEC in public domain.

These rules relating to Registration, Valuation, Input Tax Credit (ITC), Invoice, Composition and Refund along with the rates on more than 1200 goods and host of services, ha...

22 May 2017

Larger Bench of the Delhi High Court has answered in negative the question as to whether the process to which used and old tyres are subjected to produce two or more pieces of cut tyres is ‘manufacture’ within the meaning of Section 2(f) of the Central Excise Act, 1944.

Relying on Apex Court decision in the case of <...

28 March, 2017

Central Goods and Services Tax Bill (CGST Bill), Integrated Goods and Services Tax Bill (IGST Bill), Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Bill and Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Bill, 2017 have been introduced in the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian Parliament) yesterday (27 March, 2017). The Bills are likely to be ta...

21 March 2017

Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) recently delivered few decisions on one of the oldest questions in Central Excise law – whether a process amounts to ‘manufacture’. According to the decisions while conversion of paddy to rice and affixing of pre-cut glasses to frames do not amount to manufacture, ...

21 March 2017

The issue before the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court was whether chemicals/ solvents used in the process of cleaning amounts to transfer of property in goods between the contractor and the contractee and thus exigible to tax. The petitioner, i.e. the contractor, was engaged in the business of providing services of maintenance, cleanin...

21 March 2017

The issue for consideration was whether a Voice Tab named by the assessee as ‘HP Slate 6” Voice Tab’ is classifiable under CTH 8471 as an automatic data processing machine or under CTH 8517 as telephone for cellular network. 

Observing that the goods were capable of use both as a cellular telephone and a...