Some major recommendations were put forth by the GST Council in the 40th GST Council meeting. What further step has CBIC taken to give effect to the recommendations
GST Compliance relaxations related to Refund, E-way Bills and Orders
To amend the existing relief provided by the Government amid COVID-19 in terms of waiver of late fees, interest and reduced rate of Interest @9% p.a. for the period of February, March and April 2020 and similar relief has been provided for the period May, June & July 2020 and extension of due date for August 2020
Certain section of Finance Act 2020 has been made effective from 30th June 2020 vide Notification No 49/2020 - Central Tax dated 24th June 2020.
Reverse charge means the liability to pay tax is on the recipient of supply of goods or services instead of the supplier of such goods or services in respect of notified categories of supply.
Due to multiple notifications issued for providing the relaxation in the Interest / Late fees / Due date / Conditional date in filing of GST Returns. Recent Notification has removed certain condition which is attached earlier especially with Interest Rate.
The issue regarding allowing of availability of input tax credit relating to the facilities provided to the employees by the companies has been a point of dispute between the taxpayers and department since inception of GST regime. AAR has always given a regressive ruling i.e. not in favour of taxpayers
Government has come up with few Notifications on 24th June 2020, for extending the various due dates for filing GSTR -3B return and GSTR 1 return for various months to provide relaxation in view of spread of Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)
The term under GST that needs a wider interpretation is "Plant and Machinery", because the scope of the same goes beyond our imagination.
Important Dates for filing GSTR-3B and GSTR-1 for availing benefit of Interest & Late Fees
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