1. CHRIST UNIVERSITY
Department of Commerce I
Subject: Other Taxes
Topic: Goods and Services Tax
Continuous Internal assessment III
By,
Karthik Ravi – 08D0027
Kushal S S – 08D0062
Mayank Baid – 08D0041
Ramesh Kumar – 08D0044
Submitted to,
Dr. Alice Mani

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Table of Contents
What is GST ?....................................................................................................................3
Roadmap to GST ..............................................................................................................3
Why Goods and service tax? .........................................................................................4
Benefits of GST..................................................................................................................5
Indirect taxes subsumed under GST...............................................................................5
The GST model in India....................................................................................................6
Dual GST ............................................................................................................................6
Taxable event....................................................................................................................6
Tax payer identification number....................................................................................7
Payment of tax..................................................................................................................7
Collection of GST ..............................................................................................................7
Input tax credit setoff.......................................................................................................7
Constitution amendment for levying service tax by the states ..................................7
Applicability of CGST and SGST...................................................................................7
GST rates............................................................................................................................8
Periodical return................................................................................................................8
Method:...............................................................................................................................8
Exract ..................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 10

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Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a part of the proposed tax reforms that center
round evolving an efficient and harmonized consumption tax system in the
country. Presently, there are parallel systems of indirect taxation at the central
and state levels. Each of the systems needs to be reformed to eventually
harmonize them.
In the Union Budget for the year 2006-2007, Finance Minister proposed that
India should move towards national level Goods and Services Tax that should be
shared between the Centre and the States. He proposed to set April 1, 2010 as
the date for introducing GST. World over, goods and services attract the same
rate of tax. That is the foundation of a GST. The first step towards introducing
GST is to progressively converge the service tax rate and the CENVAT rate.
The goods and service tax (GST) is proposed to be a comprehensive indirect tax
levy on manufacture, sale and consumption of goods as well as services at a
national level. Integration of goods and services taxation would give India a
world class tax system and improve tax collections. It would end the long
standing distortions of differential treatments of manufacturing and service
sector. The introduction of goods and services tax will lead to the abolition of
taxes such as octroi, Central sales tax, State level sales tax, entry tax, stamp
duty, telecom license fees, turnover tax, tax on consumption or sale of electricity,
taxes on transportation of goods and services, and eliminate the cascading
effects of multiple layers of taxation. GST will facilitate seamless credit across
the entire supply chain and across all states under a common tax base.
As we have parallel systems of indirect taxation at the central and state levels,
each of the systems needs to be reformed to eventually harmonise them. The
central excise duty should be converted into a full fledged manufacturing
Stage VAT on goods and services and the states sales tax systems should be
transformed into a retail stage destination based VAT, before the two are
integrated. At the central level, beginning has been made by converging widely

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varying tax rates and extending input tax credit to convert excise duties into a
CENVAT.
The reformed indirect tax system GST-Goods
and service tax is proposed to implement on
1st April 2010 in India. Several countries
implemented this tax mechanism followed by
France, the first country introduced GST. Goods
and service tax is a new version of VAT which
gives a comprehensive setoff for input tax
credit and subsuming many indirect taxes from
state and national level. The GST Implementation is not yet declared by
government and the drafting of GST law is still under process and a clear
picture will be available only after announcement of Implementation. As the
name denotes the goods and service tax is integrated in GST for setoff benefit
of Input tax credit.
One of the main reasons of the introduction of GST is to avoid cascading effect
of taxes in India. For example manufacturing of a product attract CENVAT. The
manufacturer pays CENVAT on goods produced. So the CENVAT element is
loaded on the product. According VAT rules, the sales tax is payable on the
aggregate selling price which include CENVAT. Here there is no set off benefits
available. Likewise there are many situations in the nature of cascading effect
for instance, State VAT on CST, Entry tax on VAT etc. Now Government has
decided to abolish tax on tax effect by implementing GST.
Indirect taxes like luxury tax, entertainment tax, are yet to be included in the
VAT. These taxes are still existing and payable.

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Several taxes like additional customs duty, surcharges not included under
CENVAT. Input tax and service tax set off is out of reach to the manufacturer
and dealers.
1. GST provide comprehensive and wider coverage of input
credit setoff, you can use service tax credit for
the payment of tax on sale of goods etc.
2. CST will be removed and need not pay. At present there
is no input tax credit available for CST.
3. Many indirect taxes in state and central level subsumed
by GST, You need to pay a single GST instead of all.
4. Uniformity of tax rates across the states
5. Ensure better compliance due to aggregate tax rate reduces.
6. By reducing the tax burden the competitiveness of Indian products
in international market is expected to increase and there by development
of the nation.
7. Prices of goods are expected to reduce in the long run as the benefits of
less tax burden would be passed on to the consumer.
8. Overall tax compliance cost will reduce for government and can
concentrate on GST
The following indirect taxes from state and central level is going to integrated
with GST
1. VAT/Sales tax
2. Entertainment Tax ( unless it is levied by
local bodies)
3. Luxury tax
4. Taxes on lottery, betting and gambling.
5. State cesses and surcharges in so far as they relate to supply of goods
and services.
6. Entry tax not on in lieu of octroi.
7. Purchase tax ( This is not sure still under discussion )

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1. Central Excise Duty.
2. Additional Excise Duty.
3. The Excise Duty levied under the medical and Toiletries Preparation Act
4. Service Tax.
5. Additional Customs Duty, commonly known as countervailing Duty ( CVD)
6. Special Additional duty of custums-4% ( SAD)
7. Surcharges
8. Cessess
The above taxes dissolve under GST; instead only CGST & SGST exists.
Many countries are following single GST. But it is proposed
that dual CST is suitable for federal country like India. The
end user, i.e. consumer cannot recover taxes but a business
can recover by claiming input tax setoff.
Dual GST means, the proposed model will have two component called
CGST – Central goods and service tax for levied by central Govt.
SGST – State goods and service tax levied by state Govt.
There would have multiple statute one CGST statute and SGST statute for every
state.
Supply of goods and supply of services will be considered as taxable event
under GST. Any economic activity which is not supply of goods is treated a
supply of service.

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Each tax payer allotted a pan based identification number
containing 13 or 15 digit number.
The central GST would be paid to central and state GST paid to state
government in the prescribed account head.
It is same as VAT; Tax is collected on the basis of value addition on each stage
of sale. Both CGST and SGST would have to be charged in an every service bill
and sale bill and paid after adjusting input credit available on both.
The input tax credit of SGST can be utilized for the payment of SGST only and
input tax credit on CGST can be utilized for the payment of CGST only. This
means that cross utilization of input tax credit will not be allowed.
Making it clearer; input tax credit of CGST cannot be utilized for
the payment of SGST and vice versa. However there is an exemption for the
above in the case of interstate transaction .For interstate transaction IGST is
proposed and would be implemented along with CGST and SGST.
The power of levying service tax is rest with central Government and a
constitutional amendment is necessary for empowering states for levying service
tax.
The applicability of taxes is as usual there would be a prescribed limit of annual
turnover, also some goods and services are exempted under GST. The dealer
whose turnover is below prescribed limit need not pay tax.

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Threshold for annual turnover for goods and services would be 10 lakh for SGST
and threshold of CGST for goods may be 1.5 crore and service would have a
separate threshold that too will be appropriately high.
The rate structure would be as follow; but not final
A lower rates for essential commodities
Standard rates for general goods
Special rates for precious metals
For services may be single rates for CGST and
SGST.
GST rates is not yet announced by government, however it is assumed that
aggregate total of CGST & SGST would be 14 % to20%.
Taxpayer would have to submit periodical return as prescribed by law in
common format for CGST and SGST.
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The GST system is based on the same concept as VAT. Here, set-off is available
in respect of taxes paid in the previous level against the GST charged at the
time of sale. The GST model has some aspects which are as follows:
Components: GST will be divided into two components, namely, Central Goods
and Service Tax and State Goods and Service Tax.
Rate: Rates charged across all states and the central level will be uniform along
with the regulations, definitions and classifications.
Applicability: GST will be applicable to all Goods and Services sold or provided
in India, except from the list of exempted goods which fall outside its purview.

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Payment: GST will be charged and paid separately in case of Central and State
level.
Input Tax credit: The facility of Input Tax Credit at Central level will only be
available in respect of Central Goods and Service tax. In other words, the ITC of
Central Goods and Service tax shall not be allowed as a set-off against State
Goods and Service tax and vice versa.
The budget speech of 2006-2007 contained a
proposal to introduce Goods and Services Tax (GST)
in India with effect from April 01, 2010. It has been
reiterated in the budget speech of 2009-10 that the
process for smooth introduction of GST with effect
from April 01, 2010 would be accelerated. The
proposed GST is not instead of CST alone, but would
also subsume many other Central and State taxes. The
Empowered Committee of the State Finance Ministers (EC), on the request of
Central Government and after due consultation among States, has prepared a
model and roadmap for the GST. The Central Government has given its
suggestions to the EC on the model. The Centre and the States have agreed upon
the basic structure in keeping with the principles of fiscal federalism enshrined in
the Constitution. The broad contour of the GST model is that it will be a dual GST
comprising of a Central and a State GST.
Government of India and the States, including Gujarat, together fund on equal
basis, a nation-wide computerization project called “Tax Information Exchange
System(TINXSYS)” to enable exchange of critical data on inter-State sale among
States. To facilitate the development of capability in States to share their data
through TINXSYS, the Government of India also supports projects for
computerization of various State VAT administrations. Government of India has
sanctioned financial assistance for projects in the North Eastern States, Himachal
Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir. The budget for 2009-10 has provision of Rs408
crore for a Mission Mode Project, to provide financial support to computerisation
needs of the Commercial Taxes Departments of States.
This information was given by Minister of State for Finance, Shri S.S.
Palanimanickam in reply to a question raised by Shri P.P. Chauhan in Lok Sabha.

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Pan Linked identification: Each taxpayer shall be provided with an unique 13
to 15 digit ID number for filing periodical returns with the Central and State
government.
Thus, we get an overview of what the system of GST (Goods and Service tax) is
likely to be and upon its implementation what benefits are we going to derive
from it. All in all a very good proposal which one can look forward to which
reduces the complexities of the tax system in respect to both, the taxpayer and
the Tax authorities.
Refurbishing the current tax system requires implementation of such
a new methodology that it is able to eliminate the drawbacks of
the present system of taxation in India. India waits for the GST, Goods
and Service Tax, to arrive the scenario for a better tax system. Added to it the
Direct Tax Code can also replace the Income Tax Act, 1961). But before getting
introduced to this system of GST, one must have a general idea about the whole
system.
The dilemma of multiplicity of taxes is being experienced in India over a number
of years, though introduction of CENVAT and VAT has considerably helped in
reduction of such multiplicity but still the sorrow continues to prevail. The problem
on account of CENVAT is that taxes like Additional Custom Duty, Additional
Excise Duty, etc. are not included in it, whereas, Vat fails to include taxes such as
Luxury tax, Entertainment tax and others. Added to this one of the main
component of overall tax structure, Service Tax is ignored in both the cases. Thus,
to overcome such miseries implementation of GST is being considered.
GST or Goods and Service Tax will include a uniform rate of taxation in all
respect and would allow an implementation of an incessant link from the primary
producer of goods and service to the retailer’s stage and will also eradicate all
cascading effects in such process.