As per Notification No 65/2017 – Central Tax, an electronic commerce operator who is supplying services under section 9, sub-section 5 and having a turnover is not above Rs 25 Lacs in a financial year at all India basis is exempted from taking registration under GST.
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As per Notification No. 51/2017 – Central Tax , Last Date for Cancellation of Registration for Migrated Tax Payers has been extended from 31st Oct 2017 to 31st Dec 2017. For Cancellation of Registration, FORM GST REG-29 has to be filed.
Editing of Core Fileds in the Registration
Application for Amendment in Registration Particulars (for both core and non-core) service is available on the portal now. Taxpayers who wish to change their particulars may do so now.
To edit the fields, following the navigation path gst.gov.in – Services – Registration – Amendment of Registration Core Fields
The core fields which can be amended are
- Legal Name of the Business
- Trade Name
- District
- Constitution of Business (Select Appropriate)
- All the fields which are given in Details of Principal Place of Business Tab
whenever the above fields are edited, the reason for editing the same along with date has to be provided mandatorily. This information is required for the audit trail.
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Any person taking registration as a casual taxable person or non-resident taxable person have to pay tax in advance based on the estimated turnover during the period of registration.
Demystifying Tax Deduction at Source under GST Act
In the current tax regime under VAT, we have Tax Deducted at Source, and the same is being continued under GST also. Section 51 of the Central Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017 talks about the provisions related Tax Deduction at Source. TDS is applicable to works contract also related to immovable properties in GST.
TDS is applicable on works contract also and the definition of works contract is defined in subsection 119 of section 2 of the CGST Act 2017.
works contract” means a contract for building, construction, fabrication, completion, erection, installation, fitting out, improvement, modification, repair, maintenance, renovation, alteration or commissioning of any immovable property wherein transfer of property in goods (whether as goods or in some other form) is involved in the execution of such contract;
The tax has to be deducted by category of persons as given in the sub-section 1 of section 51 of the CGST Act 2017. The category of persons are
(a) a department or establishment of the Central or State Government, or
(b) Local authority, or
(c) Governmental agencies, or
(d) such persons or category of persons as may be notified, by the Central or a State Government on the recommendations of the Council,
Point “d” is an open clause and government on recommendations of the GST Council will notify the class of persons who are required to deduct TDS under GST from time to time whenever it finds that there is a necessity to plug the revenue leakage in the system.
The tax has to be deducted only in case of contracts where the contract value exceeds Rs 2.5 Lacs by the taxpayer who has issued the contract.
TDS should not be deducted if the location of the supplier and the place of supply is in a State or Union territory which is different from the State or as the case may be, Union territory of registration of the recipient.
For deriving the value of supply for determining the TDS, is the value of supply excluding the taxes paid under GST (Central Tax, State / UT Tax and Compensation Cess).
The tax so deducted has to be deposited by the deductor by 10th of next month by filing of GSTR – 7
The deductor has to issue a certificate to the deductee, the contractor from whom the tax is deducted with the details like the amount of contract, the rate of tax deducted, amount of tax deducted and amount of tax deposited by the deductor in GSTR – 7A. The deductor has to issue a certificate within 5 days from the date on which the amount is credited, a late fee of Rs 100 will be levied per day for delay in issue of the certificate. The amount of late fee will not exceed Rs 5000.
The deductee can take the credit of the tax based on GSTR – 2 filed by the Deductor under Section 39, sub-section 3 of CGST Act 2017. The amount will be credited to the electronic cash ledger of the deductee, and he can utilize the same for payment of GST taxes.
In case if the deductor fails to deposit the tax to the respective government, he is liable to pay interest on the defaulted amount as per provisions of Section 50 of CGST Act 2017.
The deductor can claim for refund as per Section 54 of CGST Act 2017 provided that the amount is not credited to the electronic cash ledger of the deductee.
From the provision of this section, it is clear that the government does not want to lose any tax revenue from the small contractors also. One silver lining is that unlike in tax collected at source there is no matching of records to avail the credit. If the contractor wants to avail in the credit, then he has to be registered with GST. In a way, the government is ensuring that there is no revenue leakage from any transactions at any given point of time.
The tax rates with respect to works contract have been reduced from 18% to 12% wide Notification No 20 CGST (Rates) 2017 with respect to composite contracts undertaken for the Government, a local authority or a Governmental authority by way of construction, erection, commissioning, installation, completion, fitting out, repair, maintenance, renovation, or alteration. These rates are in addition to the TDS rates. In the erstwhile regime, the contractors were billing under the composite scheme where they were not taking input tax credit, and the excise taxes were added to the cost of the project along with the VAT and Service Tax. But now going forward in GST, as input tax credit is available for all the inputs if used for the furtherance of the business, this means that pricing of the existing contracts has to be re worked to take the benefit of the ITC and it is required as part of the Anti-profiteering provisions of the CGST Act. It will be very tough to say on the face of it that the cost for all the contract will be coming down, it has to evaluated on case to case basis and if there is no remarkable reduction or increase in costs due to lower tax rates on the input supplies. This is most likely to be seen in the case of construction of roads as the major component is gravel which is taxed at 5%, bitumen @ 9%, labor if on pay roll the GST is not applicable as it is part of the wages. Each and every contract has to be evaluated, and price revision has to be carried out accordingly. GST is exempted for some contracts as given in Notification No 12 CGST (Rates), 2017. The prices for contracts falling under such contracts also have to be renegotiated as ITC is not available on inputs.
The rollout date for the TDS in GST will be notified by the government separately, and before that, all the deductors have to obtain new GST registration number for TDS separately. The process of registration for TDS will commence from 18th of September 2017 based on the press release issued after the 21st GST Council Meeting held on 9th September 2017 at Hyderabad.
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As per Sub-section 2 of section 29 of the CGST Act, the proper officer may cancel the registration of the taxpayer who is registered under composition scheme if he has not furnished returns for three consecutive tax periods
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As per Rule – 9 of the CGST Rules, once the application for registration is filed and acknowledgement is issued, FORM GST REG-03 will be sent electronically to the applicant within 3 working days if there are any discrepancies in the application form. If no communication is received within 3 working days it is deemed to be accepted.
Cancellation of Registration Extended to 30th Sep 2017
To address the concerns of taxpayers arising from Transition to the GST regime, the Government decides to extend the time limit for filing intimation for Composition Levy (filing of intimation FORM GST CMP-01) up to 16th August, 2017; The period of applying for Cancellation of Registration is being extended up to 30th September, 2017.
The Government is mindful of the concerns of tax payers, especially the small taxpayers, arising from transition to the GST regime from 1st of July, 2017.
With a view to ease the compliance burden of provisionally migrated small taxpayers opting to pay tax under the Composition scheme, it has been decided to extend the time limit for filing intimation for Composition levy (filing of intimation FORM GST CMP-01) up to 16th August, 2017.
Similarly, the taxpayers who were provisionally migrated by virtue of being registered under the existing laws, but who are no longer required to be registered under GST, the period of applying for Cancellation of Registration is being extended up to 30th September, 2017. Relevant notifications are being issued.
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As per the Composition Rules, a person is not eligible to take registration under the composition scheme if he is required to pay taxes under reverse charge on the closing stock or if he is having goods imported from any place other the state outside the state from where is he opting to take registration under composition scheme.
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As per the Composition Rules, a person who is registered as a casual taxable person or non-resident taxable person cannot apply for registration under GST for composition taxpayer.
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