2. ‘G’- Goods
‘S’- Services
‘T’- Tax
Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a single tax rate
levied on the manufacture, sale and consumption of
goods and services at a national level.
It was introduced by ‘The Constitution (One
Hundred and First Amendment) Act 2016’.
3. In this system, GST is levied only on the
value-added at every stage of production.
This will ensure that there is no cascading
effect of taxes (tax on tax paid) on inputs
that are used in manufacturing of goods.
Taxable goods and services are not
distinguished from one another and are
taxed at a single rate in a supply chain till
the goods or services reach the consumer.
4. • China - 17%
• Indonesia - 10%
• Philippines -10%
• Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) - 05%
• UK -17.5%
• Australia -10%
• France -19.6%
• Germany -16%
• Denmark -25%
No. of Countries : 140
5. The GST council has decided a 4-tier
structure of 5%,12%,18% & 28%.
Luxury items and demerit goods would be
taxed at highest rate while essential goods
would be taxed at lowest rate.
6. Tax Structure
Direct Tax
Income Tax Wealth Tax
Indirect Tax
Central Tax
Excise Service Tax Custome
State Tax
VAT
Entry Tax, luxury
tax, Lottery Tax,
etc.
7. Tax Structure
Direct Tax
Income Tax Wealth Tax
Indirect Tax =
GST (Except
customs)
Intra- state
CGST (Central) SGST (State)
Inter State
IGST (Central)
8. Progressive Tax:
Increasing rate of tax for increasing value or
volume.
Regressive Tax:
Decreasing rate of tax for increasing value
or volume.
Proportional Tax:
Fixed rate of tax for every level of income or
production.
9. Tax Cascading (Tax on Tax)
Complexity
Taxation at Manufacturing Level
Exclusion of services
Tax Evasion
Corruption
10. Introduction of GST to replace the existing
multiple tax structure of centre and state
taxes is not only desirable but imperative in
the emerging economic environment.
Separate taxation of goods and services
often requires splitting of transaction values
into the value of goods and services for
taxation, which leads to greater
complexities.
11. Integration of various taxes into a GST
system would make it possible to give full
credit for input taxes collected.
GST, being a destination-based
consumption tax based on VAT principle,
would also greatly help in removing
economic distortions and will help in
development of a common national market.
13. How it would be in a non-GST Regime?
In a full non-GST system, there is a cascading
burden of ‘tax on tax’, as there are no set-offs
for taxes paid on inputs or on previous
purchase.
14. Transaction Selling Price Tax
Forester sells trees to timber mill
100.00 10.00
Timber mill processes timber and
sells to furniture manufacturer
200.00 20.00
The Furniture manufacturer sells
to an unregistered church
250.00 25.00
Total Tax paid 55.00
15. Feb, 2006: First time introduced concept of
GST and announced the date of its
implementation in 2010.
Jan, 2007: First GST study by ASSOCHAM
released by Dr. Shome.
Feb, 2007: F.M. announced introduction of
GST from 1 April 2010 in budget.
The Government came out with a first
discussion paper on GST in November,
2009.
Introduced the 115th constitution
Amendment (GST) Bill in the year 2011.
16.
17. Implemented in April-1/ 2005
It is replacement to complex Sales Tax
It overcomes a Cascading Effect of Tax
It applied on “Value Added Portion” in Sales
Price
18. A major problem with VAT is the way it taxes
inputs & outputs.
Inputs are taxed at 4 percent and outputs at
12.5 percent.
It is not uniform in nature.
VAT is different for different states.
Different rates of taxation for different
goods.
21. State Taxes
•VAT/sales tax
•Entertainment Tax
•Luxury Tax
•Lottery Tax
•Entry Tax
•Purchase Tax
•Stamp Duty
•Goods and passenger Tax
•Tax on vehicle
•Electricity, banking, Real state
SGST
22. Petroleum Product
Alcohol
Tobacco Product
Purchase Tax
Zero Rating For Exports
23. Transparent tax system
Uniform tax system across India
Reduce tax evasion
Export will be more competitive
24. Dispute between centre and state over tax
sharing.
Highly sophisticated IT infrastructure
required.
Issue of taxing financial services and E-
Commerce is to be appropriately addressed
and integrated.
Political imbalance.
25. Services will become expensive.
Ex: Telecom, banking, airline etc.
Being a new tax, it will take some time for the
people to understand its implications.
It is easier said than done. There are always
some complications attached.
26. It is a consumption based tax, so in case of
services the place where service is provided
needs to be determined.
If actual benefit is not passed to consumer and
seller increases his profit margin, the prices of
goods can also see a rising trend.
