The ultimate dream of every business is growth and expansion. One starts a business, earns profit, re-invests, earns more profit – and the cycle continues. You get your first customer, then 10, then 100. You start off in your immediate locality, and as you grow, you expand your operations to your city, your state, neighbouring states – till the entire country is your playground.

 GST Fundamentals

The manufacturing sector is the second largest contributor to our GDP. Many new initiatives taken by the Government in the form of Make-in-India, Invest India, Start Up India, and e-biz Mission Mode Project under the national e-governance plan are facilitating investment and ease of doing business in the country. Indian manufacturing companies in several sectors are targeting global markets and are becoming formidable global competitors.

Under GST, specific rules have been laid down for determining the place of supply of telecommunication services and financial services. Knowing how to determine the place of supply is very important to ensure that the correct tax is charged on a supply.  Let us understand how to determine the place of supply of telecommunication services and financial services.

Branch transfer refers to the transfer of materials from one unit/location to another unit/location belonging to the same business entity. It is also known as Stock Transfers. Branch transfers are done for various reasons, such as:

Certain businesses operate in a manner that they occasionally undertake transactions in territories where they don’t have a fixed place of business. Under GST, a person who has a fixed place of business in a state and undertakes taxable outward transactions has to register, if his turnover crosses the prescribed threshold limit. What happens if a person undertakes taxable transactions in a place where he/she does not have a fixed place of business?
This can happen in two cases:

Under Goods and Service Tax, ‘supply’ will be the single taxable event and the major transformation that will occur is ‘Destination based consumption tax’, where tax will accrue to the state in which the supply is consumed. The place of supply will determine the type of tax to be levied on the supply.

With the advent of GST on 1st July, 2017, an immediate task on your hands is to generate accurate invoices that meet the criteria laid down for GST tax invoices. An important component of a GST tax invoice is the tax collected on the supply.

This article has been updated as per the GST Council’s decision to suspend reverse charge mechanism on purchase of goods or services from unregistered dealers.

We have discussed the scenarios in which reverse charge is applicable in our previous blog . In these scenarios, when recipients make advance payment for supplies on which they are liable to pay tax on reverse charge, they will also have to pay tax on such advance payments. Persons who were registered under Service Tax are familiar with the similar requirement in the Service Tax regime.