GST was brought into force by a constitutional amendment to deliver a uniform taxation law for Goods and services. It is dubbed as the Goods and Services Tax or GST that has now replaced various indirect tax laws that were applicable in India.
GST tax reform was designed to eliminate the burden of double taxation on business across the country and provide single and streamlined process.
Unified Process
To put simply, Goods and Service Tax (GST) is one tax that will be levied on entire India on the supply of goods and services. The GST is going to subsume multiple taxes that are collected from suppliers, manufacturers and distributors such as VAT, service tax, CST, excise and additional excise duty.
Multistage Process
In a supply chain, an item goes through multiple changes of hands and GST is charged at every stage of the supply. For instance, when a manufacturer is buying raw material he will be levied GST on the raw material, and when he sells the finished product further to another buyer, the buyer will be charged GST; this process will continue until the ultimate consumer purchases the product.
Destination-Based
If the goods and services are produced in one state and a being sold in another, then the entire revenue will go to the state in which the product is sold and not the state producing the product.
Value Addition
The goods and service tax is levied at every step of value creation. Simply put this means that final consumer will not bear the entire tax that is charged on the product.
For Instance, the manufacturer producing clothing material buys thread, dye colours and other material that eventually increases the value of the product. The manufacturer then sells the clothing material to a retailer who sells it further with his brand name to the ultimate consumers. Goods and Service tax is levied on all of the value addition and is ultimately added when the final sale to the consumer is made.
In India both the state uickcompany.in/articles/gst-filing">goods and services. For GST the constitution has provided a clear demarcation of powers and responsibility while collecting revenue from taxation.
The central GST or CGST is where the central government has the power to collect the revenue and applies to goods and services provided in a state.
SGST is a tax that is levied on all intrastate supplies of both Goods and Services by the state government and is governed by SGST act.
When the location of the supplier and the location of supply is in two different states then, in that case, IGST is collected by central government.
The taxpayers need to register themselves with the authorities, and the process can quickly be completed online by submitting key documents such as :
Then based on the Temporary Reference Number(TRN) application has to be completed and the applicant will receive Application Reference number through which they can check the status of their application.
Once verification is complete, the applicant receives notification on the registered number and e-mail id.
As per GST council, all those listed below need to register themselves:
The GST council have finalised the tax rate for almost 1000 products and services in India. The tax slab was modified and significant changes have been brought under the following tariff heads on 10th November 2017.
A summarised version of GST rate cuts for both goods and services are:
Products
Tax Rate
All goods and services are enclosed to be taxed under GST except the following:
It is an additional tax that is levied on the supply or distribution of certain goods that are notified by the government of India. States like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujrat and Haryana may face loss due to the implementation of GST and hence GST cess is levied to compensate the state's revenue.
Goods and Services that might attract GST Cess:
GST is believed to have a considerable impact on almost all the facets of business operations in the country, such as the pricing of the products and services, supply chain optimisation and tax compliance systems.
GSTR is completely an online process which all registered taxpayer have to file on monthly, quarterly and annually with the appropriate return forms. You need to share details of your business information like sales, purchases, tax collected and paid.
With the introduction of GST many of the consumer goods in India became costlier such as cinema tickets, insurance, food and Hotel charges but even with the following there are several benefits that are listed below:
The government of India provide a loan based on GST returns filed by the GST number holder in the past financial years. The loan under this scheme can be obtained simply through GSTIN and the principle approval can be obtained within 60 minutes of filing application.
Under following offences the structure of penalty is as follows:
1. Late Filing
The Individual or business filing GST registration late is charged a late fee of 200 Rs. Per day. However, in the case of late filing of IGST interest rate of 18% is charged and is calculated based on thetax that has to be paid to the government.
2. Not Filing Return
If a person doesn't file GST for 1 month will be liable to pay a hefty penalty. The offender will be liable to pay 10% of interest on the due tax as a penalty. The minimum amount of penalty levied is Rs.10,000.
3. In case of Fraud
In case the where a person or a business is in some way involved in Fraud or suppression of transaction then the person will be liable to pay penalty amount which could also lead to a jail term of 1 year to 5 years depending upon the amount of tax involved.