2. Present system of taxation in India
Central government(CG)
Tax on goods at the time of manufacture (ED)
Tax on domestic procurement of services and on import of services –
Service Tax
Custom duty on import of goods(BCD), CVD – in lieu of ED & SAD in
lieu of VAT
State Government (SG)
Tax on Intra-state Sale (State VAT)
Tax on inter state sale (CST )
Tax on entry of specified goods in state.
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3. Proposed Indirect Tax Structure
Intra State
Taxable
Supply
Excise and
Service Tax will
be known as
CGST
Local VAT &
Other taxes will
be known as
SGST
Inter State
Taxable
Supply
CST will be
known as
Integrated GST
(IGST)
Approx. Sum
Total of CGST
and SGST
Import From
Outside
India
Custom Duty
InPlace of CVD
and SAD, IGST
will be charged
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4. Scope of GST
All goods or services likely to be covered under GST except :
o Alcohol for human consumption - State Excise plus VAT
o Electricity - Electricity Duty
o Real Estate - Stamp Duty plus Property Taxes
o Petroleum Products (to be brought under GST from date to be
notified on recommendation of GST Council)
Tobacco Products under GST with Central Excise duty.
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5. GST Coordinates
Definition of Goods & Services Tax – “Goods & Services Tax means any tax on supply
of goods, or services or both except taxes on supply of the alcoholic liquor for
human consumption”
Definition of Services - Services means anything other than goods – proposed Article
366 (26A)
Definition of Goods - Goods includes all materials, commodities & articles – Article
366 (12)
Additional 1% Tax on inter-state supply
No surcharge in case of GST
Concept of Declared goods abolished
Concurrent Jurisdiction
Centre to levy & collect IGST
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6. Silent Features of GST
Dual GST - federal structure of the country, the GST will have two components: one
levied by the Centre (hereinafter referred to as Central GST), and the other levied by the
States (hereinafter referred to as State GST). This dual GST model would be implemented
through multiple statutes (one for CGST and SGST statute for every State).
IGST (Integrated GST) on inter-State supplies of goods or services in India – levied and
collected by the Centre
Central GST and State GST are to be paid to the accounts of the Centre and the States
separately. Cross utilisation of ITC between the Central GST and the State GST would, in
general, not be allowed. GST is a Destination Based Tax.
Each taxpayer would be allotted a PAN linked taxpayer identification number with a total
of 13/15 digits. This would bring the GST PAN-linked system in line with the prevailing
PAN-based system for Income tax facilitating data exchange and taxpayer compliance
Common Threshold limit for Goods & Services.
Optional Compounding scheme for taxpayers having taxable turnover up to a certain
threshold above the exemption.
HSN Code likely to be used for classification of goods. Present Accounting codes likely to
be used for Services.
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9. Input tax Credits (‘ITC’)
IGST can be utilized against
IGST or CGST or SGST in this
order only
IGST is the best credit type
IGST IGST
CGST
SGST
Input Credit Output Liability
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.... Contd.
10. Credit Chain
Existing
Scenario
Credit Of Can be Utilized Against Cannot be Utilized
Against
Excise Duty Excise Duty, Service Tax, VAT & CST
Service Tax Service Tax, Excise Duty VAT & CST
Central Sales Tax
(CST)
None Excise Duty, Service Tax,
CST, VAT
VAT VAT, CST Excise Duty, Service Tax
Proposed
Scenario
Credit Of Can be Utilized Against Cannot be Utilized
Against
CGST CGST, IGST SGST
SGST SGST, IGST CGST
IGST IGST, CGST, SGST None
-> GST will provide Seamless Credit across Goods & Services
12. Registration & related matters….
Common Threshold of Gross Annual Turnover including Exports and exempted
supplies ,to be calculated on all India basis, below which it is not mandatory for the
suppliers to get itself registered.
Registration application must be filled within 30 days from the date from which dealer is
liable to obtain registration i.e. breaching the threshold limit.
Effective date of registration will be the date of application in case the registration
application is filled within 30 days. And ITC from that day shall be allowed.
There will be another relatively higher threshold of Gross Annual Turnover (to be
calculated on all-India basis) to be called Compounding turnover up to which the
registered person can opt to pay tax at a specified percentage of the turnover, without
entering the credit chain
Irrespective of turnover, if a taxable person carries out any inter-state supply and / or is
liable to pay GST under reverse charge, he will be compulsorily required to take
registration. Such person shall neither be eligible for exemption threshold nor for
Compounding scheme
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13. …. Contd.
For each State the taxable person will have to take a separate registration, even
though the taxable person may be supplying goods or services or both from more than
one State as a single legal entity.
Multiple registrations within one State to business verticals [as defined in Accounting
Standard (AS) 17 issued by ICAI] of a taxable person may also be permitted, subject to all
the verticals being on the same scheme of tax treatment if the GST Law so provides.
Non-resident Supplier is a person who, in the course of business, makes an intra-state
supply of goods or services or both, but is not a resident in the state in which he has
applied for registration, but is already registered in any other state.
Supplier who is not registered on regular basis, whether on mandatory or voluntary basis,
in other State (s) and desires to conduct business in a particular State for a limited
period, will have to obtain registration in that State for that limited period. Such
suppliers are known as casual dealers and shall not be allowed to opt for composition
scheme. However, the supplier would be eligible to claim ITC on purchases / inward
supplies.
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14. Rating and Compliance Profile
There should also be a continuous rating system, provided under model law, for dealers
based on parameters such as promptness in e-return filing, discrepancies detected where
the dealer has had to make corrections, making prompt payment in lieu of reversed ITC,
etc. The profiles for all dealers would be posted in public domain so that the dealer
community is kept aware of the compliance profile of all registered dealers with whom
they may have to deal with during the course of their business.
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16. Returns.. … Few Important Points
S.No Returns/Ledger For To be filed by
1 GSTR - 1 Outward supplies made by
taxpayer (other than
compounding taxpayer and
ISD)
10th of the next month
2 GSTR – 2 Inward supplies received by a
taxpayer (other than a
compounding taxpayer and
ISD)
15th of the next month
3 GSTR – 3 Monthly return (other than
compounding taxpayer and
ISD)
20th of the next month
4 GSTR – 4 Quarterly return for
compounding Taxpayer
18th of the month next to
quarter
5 GSTR – 5 Periodic return by Non-
Resident Foreign Taxpayer
Last day of registration
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17. ..contd.
S.No Returns/Ledger For To be filled by
6 GSTR – 6 Return for Input Service
Distributor (ISD)
15th of the next month
7 GSTR – 7 Return for Tax Deducted at
Source
10th of the next month
8 GSTR – 8 Annual Return By 31st December of next FY
9 ITC Ledger of Taxpayer Continuous
10 Cash Ledger of Taxpayer Continuous
11 Tax Ledger of Taxpayer Continuous
* There will be common e-return for CGST, SGST, IGST and Additional Tax.
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18. GSTR – 1
Invoice Level Supply
Information
B2B
(Whether inter state or
intrastate ) Invoice level
details required to be
uploaded
Inter State B2C
Invoice Level details for every
invoice above value Rs
2,50,000
State wise summary for
invoices less than Rs 2,50,000
where address of the buyer is
on record.
Where address of buyer is
not on records. All invoices
above Rs 50,000 must have
the address of the buyer.
Intra State B2C
Tax Rate wise consolidated
Supply details to be uploaded
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19. …..contd.
HSN Code ( 4 Digit) compulsory on invoices for taxpayers having turnover of more than Rs.5
Crs in PFY.
For taxpayers having turnover between Rs 5 Crs and Rs 1.5 Crs in PFY, 1st year HSN code (2
Digit) will be optional and from 2nd year onwards it will be mandatory.
Compounding dealers may not be required to specify HSN at 2-digit level also.
Prescribed Accounting code will be mandatory for those services for which Place of Supply
Rules are dependent on nature of services to apply the destination principle, irrespective of
turnover.
HSN Codes at 8-digit level and Accounting Codes for services will be mandatory in case of
exports and imports.
HSN code for goods and Accounting Code for services will apply for submitting the
information in return relating to relevant invoice level information
Place of supply to be mentioned in invoices.
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20. GSTR – 2…
Information submitted in GSTR – 1 by the Counterparty Supplier of the taxpayer will be
auto populated in the concerned tables of GSTR- 2 . The same may be modified i.e.
added or deleted by the Taxpayer while filing the GSTR- 2 .
The recipient would be permitted to add invoices (not uploaded by the counterparty
supplier) if he is in possession of invoices and have received the goods or services.
Taxpayers will have the option to do reconciliation of inward supplies with counter-party
taxpayers (suppliers) during the next 7 days by following up with their counter-party
taxpayers for any increase/decrease of supply invoice.
Separate tables for submitting details relating to import of Goods/Capital Goods from
outside India and for the services received from outside India.
Inward supplies would be auto-populated in the ITC ledger of the taxpayer on
submission of his return. The taxpayer will select the invoice details regarding the in-
eligibility and eligibility of ITC in relation to these inward supplies and the quantum
available.
In respect of capital goods, there will be a field to capture appropriate information
regarding availment of ITC over a period.
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21. GSTR - 3
The return (GSTR-3) would be entirely auto- populated through GSTR-1 (of counterparty
suppliers), own GSTR-2, ISD return (GSTR-6) (of Input Service Distributor), TDS return
(GSTR-7) (of counterparty deductor), own ITC Ledger, own cash ledger, own Tax Liability
ledger
Separate tables for calculating tax amounts on outward and inward supplies based on the
information contained in various tables in the GSTR-3 return.
Separate table for capturing the TDS credit received and which has been credited to his cash
ledger (the deductee).
Information about ITC ledger, Cash ledger and Liability ledger would be updated in real
time on an activity in connection with these ledgers by the taxpayer
Details of the payment of tax under various tax heads of CGST, SGST, IGST and Additional
Tax separately would be populated from the debit entry in Credit/Cash ledger
Excess payment, if any, will be carried forward to the next return period. The taxpayer will
have the option of claiming refund of excess payment
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22. GSTR - 4
After crossing the threshold exemption limit, the taxpayers may opt for compounding
scheme wherein they would be required to pay taxes at fixed rate without any ITC
facilities. Such taxpayers would be required to file a simplified quarterly return GSTR-4.
In this return the taxpayer is only required to indicate the total value of supply made
during the period of return and the tax paid at the compounding rate along with the
details of payment of tax in the return.
The compounding taxpayer will also need to declare invoice-level purchase information
(auto-drafted from supply invoice information uploaded by counter-party taxpayers) for
the purchases from normal taxpayers.
The Compounding taxpayer will also be required to submit details of the goods and
services imported from outside India
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23. GSTR - 5
Non-Resident foreign taxpayers would be required to file GSTR-5 for the period for which
they have obtained registration within a period of seven days after the date of expiry of
registration.
In case registration period is for more than one month, monthly return(s) would be filed
and thereafter return for remaining period would be filed within a period of seven days as
stated earlier.
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24. GSTR – 6
Final invoice-level inward supply information pertaining to the tax period separately for
goods and services on which the ITC is being claimed. This will be auto populated on the
basis of GSTR-1 filed by the Counterparty Supplier of the taxpayer. The same may be
modified i.e. added or deleted by the Taxpayer while filing the ISD return.
The recipient would be permitted to add invoices (not uploaded by the counterparty
supplier) if he is in possession of invoices and have received the services.
Details of the Invoices along with the GSTIN of the receiver of the credit i.e. to whom the
ISD is distributing credit.
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25. Return Filling Process
GSTR 1
• The taxpayer will upload the final GSTR-1 return by 10th day of month succeeding the month during which
supplies has been made. GST Common Portal (GSTN) will auto-draft the provisional GSTR-2 of taxpayer
based on the supply invoice details reported by the counter-party taxpayer (supplier) on a near real-time
basis.
GSTR 2
• Purchasing taxpayer will accept / reject/ modify such auto-drafted provisional GSTR-2.Purchasing taxpayer
will also be able to add additional purchase invoice details in his GSTR-2 which have not been uploaded by
counter-party taxpayer till 15th day of month succeeding the month during which supplies have been received.
Reconci
liation
• Taxpayers will have the option to do reconciliation of inward supplies with counter-party taxpayers (suppliers)
during the next 7 days by following up with their counter-party taxpayers for any increase/decrease of supply
invoice.
ITC
Legder
• All the invoices would be auto-populated in the ITC ledger of taxpayer. The taxpayer would, however, indicate
the eligibility / partial eligibility for ITC in those cases where either he is not entitled or he is entitled for
partial ITC
GSTR 3
• Taxpayers will finalize their GSTR-1 and GSTR-2 by using online facility at Common Portal or using GSTN
compliant off-line facility in their accounting applications, determine the liability on their supplies, determine
the amount of eligible ITC on their purchases and then generate the net tax liability from the system for each
type of tax. Details in GSTR – 3 will get auto- populated from GSTR 1 & 2.
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26. GSTR - 8
This statement would provide a reconciliation of the returns with the audited financial
statements of the taxpayer.
This return is a detailed return and captures the details of all the income and
expenditure of the taxpayer and regroups them in accordance with the monthly returns
filed by the taxpayer.
This return also provides for the reconciliation of the monthly tax payments and will
provide the opportunity to make good for any short reporting of activities undertaken
supply wise.
Since this return captures the minute detail of income and expenditure of the taxpayer,
the gross profit/loss arrived on the basis of the details submitted in this statement should
tally with the gross profit/loss indicated in the Profit and Loss Account of the dealer.
Accordingly, this return is to be submitted along with the audited copies of the Annual
Accounts of the dealer and would be filed by 31stDecember following the end of the
financial year for which it is filed.
The format of Reconciliation statement would be finalized after finalization of GST
Model law.
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27. Revision of return
There would be no revision of returns.
All unreported invoices of previous tax period would be reflected in the return for the
month in which they are proposed to be included. The interest, if applicable will be auto
populated.
All under-reported invoice and ITC revision will have to be corrected using credit/debit
note and such credit / debit note would be reflected in the return for the month in which
such adjustment is carried out. The credit/debit note will have provision to record
original invoice, date etc. to enable the system to link the same with the original invoice
as also to calculate the interest, if applicable. Its format will be like the invoice.
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28. Other Specific points
Exports –
8 digit HSN Code for goods / Accounting code for services to be mentioned on
invoice mandatory.
Shipping bill/ bill of export no. to be provided in return.
Imports –
Bill of Entry no to be provided in return
8 digit HSN code mandatory
Importers address to be provided if not auto populated through system.
Post sale discount –
Adjustment for post sale discount to be completed before filling the annual return.
credit/debit note will be reflected in the monthly return in which the said
adjustment is made
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29. Concept of Blacklisting
Trigger for Blacklisting
Continuous default for 3 months in paying ITC that has been reversed.
Continuous default of 3 months or any 3 month-period over duration of 12 months in
uploading sales details leading to reversal of ITC for others. Defaulters of even a
single event should also be flagged and put in public domain as being a potential
black listed dealer so as to alert the buyers.
Continuous short reporting of sales beyond a prescribed limit of 5% (of total sales)
for a period of 6 months.
Blacklisting
Only for regulating ITC by others.
Will be based on dealer rating. A dealer will be blacklisted if dealer rating falls below
the prescribed limit.
To be notified (auto-SMS) to all dealers who have pre-registered this dealer (black
listed now) as their supplier.
To be prospective only (from month next to blacklisting)
Blacklisted GSTINs cannot be uploaded in purchase details. Corresponding denial of
ITC to be supported by suitable provision in the law.
Once blacklisting is lifted, buyers can avail unclaimed ITC subject to this dealer uploading
sales details along with tax and interest
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41. Broad Impact
No taxable event of manufacture and thus no related concepts like captive
consumption etc.
Credit benefits of presently unavailable Credit
Cross Credits
Vatability of taxes like CST, entry tax, entertainment tax etc.
Works Contract – Concept may not be relevant
Concept of In-transit sale – may not be relevant under GST
Treatment of present incentives/ exemptions
Benefits of STP/ SEZ/ EOU
Taxability of Branch Transfers
Maintenance of Records & Compliances
42. Requirements
Systems readiness for transition
⁻ Identify the areas and transactions requiring change
⁻ Identify transactions/items to be affected on cut off date like
tax rate on continuous service, input tax position of inventory,
outstanding transactions, etc., and
⁻ Talk to suppliers/vendors /consultants
⁻ Systems implementation and training