53rd GST Council meeting recommendations

Dear Readers, The 53rd meeting of the GST Council convened on June 22, 2024, primarily focused on addressing taxpayer concerns and providing relief measures. The following major recommendations were discussed, with implementation on issuance of notifications / circulars: 🔹 Section 128A: Proposal to waive interest and penalties for FY 17-18, 18-19, and 19-20 related to […]

Analysis of Instruction No. 01/2023-GST – Dated 04th May, 2023 with regards to the Guidelines for Special All-India Drive against fake registrations

Background In the National Co-ordination Meeting on 24th April 2023, it was discussed that while various system based and policy measures are being taken to address fake registration and fake input tax credit problem, there is a need of concerted and coordinated action on a mission mode by Central and State tax authorities to tackle[…..]

Section 16(4) – A dilemma for the relevant period.

Dear Friends, We received many queries as to whether provisions of Section 16(4) can be invoked for any omission / correction of the past period or can be applied for claiming ITC of that respective period also. For example, if February 2020 GSTR 3B is filed in the month of March 2021, so can we[…..]

GST: Extension of Due date for GSTR 3B for April 2022

Due to technical glitches in generation of GSTR 2B, the due date is extended as below: –GSTR 3B – Due date for April 2022 month is extended till 24th May 2022 (Notification No. 05/2022 – Central Tax – dated 17th May 2022). –PMT – 06 – Due date for deposit of tax for QRMP persons[…..]