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..... s or both on behalf of another; (6) aggregate turnover means the aggregate value of all taxable supplies (excluding the value of inward supplies on which tax is payable by a person on reverse charge basis), exempt supplies, exports of goods or services or both and inter-State supplies of persons having the same Permanent Account Number, to be computed on all India basis but excludes central tax, State tax, Union territory tax, integrated tax and cess; (7) agriculturist means an individual or a Hindu Undivided Family who undertakes cultivation of land- (a) by own labour, or (b) by the labour of family, or (c) by servants on wages payable in cash or kind or by hired labour under personal supervision or the personal supervision of any member of the family; (8) Appellate Authority means an Authority appointed or authorised to hear appeals as referred to in section 107; (9) Appellate Tribunal means the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal referred to in section 109; (10) appointed day means the date on which the provisions of this Act shall come into force; (11) assessment means determination of tax liability under this Act and includes self-a .....

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..... d in the supply of individual goods or services or a group of related goods or services which is subject to risks and returns that are different from those of the other business verticals. Explanation .- For the purposes of this clause, factors that should be considered in determining whether goods or services are related include- (a) the nature of the goods or services; (b) the nature of the production processes; (c) the type or class of customers for the goods or services; (d) the methods used to distribute the goods or supply of services; and (e) the nature of regulatory environment, (wherever applicable), including, banking, insurance, or public utilities; (19) capital goods means goods, the value of which is capitalised in the books of account of the person claiming the input tax credit and which are used or intended to be used in the course or furtherance of business; (20) casual taxable person means a person who occasionally undertakes transactions involving supply of goods or services or both in the course or furtherance of business, whether as principal, agent or in any other capacity, in the taxable territory where he has no fixed place of bus .....

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..... y other person but shall not include any subsidy given by the Central Government or a State Government: Provided that a deposit given in respect of the supply of goods or services or both shall not be considered as payment made for such supply unless the supplier applies such deposit as consideration for the said supply; (32) continuous supply of goods means a supply of goods which is provided, or agreed to be provided, continuously or on recurrent basis, under a contract, whether or not by means of a wire, cable, pipeline or other conduit, and for which the supplier invoices the recipient on a regular or periodic basis and includes supply of such goods as the Government may, subject to such conditions, as it may, by notification, specify; (33) continuous supply of services means a supply of services which is provided, or agreed to be provided, continuously or on recurrent basis, under a contract, for a period exceeding three months with periodic payment obligations and includes supply of such services as the Government may, subject to such conditions, as it may, by notification, specify; (34) conveyance includes a vessel, an aircraft and a vehicle; (35) cost .....

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..... rson; (50) fixed establishment means a place (other than the registered place of business) which is characterised by a sufficient degree of permanence and suitable structure in terms of human and technical resources to supply services, or to receive and use services for its own needs; (51) Fund means the Consumer Welfare Fund established under section 57; (52) goods means every kind of movable property other than money and securities but includes actionable claim, growing crops, grass and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before supply or under a contract of supply; (53) Government means the Government of Assam; (54) Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act means the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act, 2017 (Central Act 15 of 2017); (55) goods and services tax practitioner means any person who has been approved under section 48 to act as such practitioner; (56) India means the territory of India as referred to in article 1 of the Constitution, its territorial waters, seabed and sub-soil underlying such waters, continental shelf, exclusive economic zone or any other maritime zo .....

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..... ceipt of goods or services or both whether by purchase, acquisition or any other means, with or without consideration; (68) job work means any treatment or process undertaken by a person on goods belonging to another registered person and the expression job worker shall be construed accordingly; (69) local authority means- (a) a Panchayat as defined in clause (d) of article 243 of the constitution; (b) a Municipality as defined in clause (e) of article 243P of the Constitution; (c) a Municipal Committee, a Zila Parishad, a District Board, and any other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Central Government or any State Government with the control or management of a municipal or local fund; (d) a Cantonment Board as defined in section 3 of the Cantonments Act, 2006 (Central Act 41 of 2006); (e) a Regional Council or a District Council constituted under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution; (f) a Development Board constituted under article 371 of the Constitution; or (g) a Regional Council constituted under article 371A of the Constitution; (70) location of the recipient of services means,- (a) where a supply is received a .....

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..... ed separately; (75) money means the Indian legal tender or any foreign currency, cheque, promissory note, bill of exchange, letter of credit, draft, pay order, traveler cheque, money order, postal or electronic remittance or any other instrument recognized by the Reserve Bank of India when used as a consideration to settle an obligation or exchange with Indian legal tender of another denomination but shall not include any currency that is held for its numismatic value; (76) motor vehicle shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (28) of section 2 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Central Act 59 of 1988); (77) non-resident taxable person means any person who occasionally undertakes transactions involving supply of goods or services or both, whether as principal or agent or in any other capacity, but who has no fixed place of business or residence in India; (78) non-taxable supply means a supply of goods or services or both which is not leviable to tax under this Act or under the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act; (79) non-taxable territory means the territory which is outside the taxable territory; (80) notification means a notification .....

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..... alf an agent carries on the business of supply or receipt of goods or services or both; (89) principal place of business means the place of business specified as the principal place of business in the certificate of registration; (90) principal supply means the supply of goods or services which constitutes the predominant element of a composite supply and to which any other supply forming part of that composite supply is ancillary; (91) proper officer in relation to any function to be performed under this Act, means the Commissioner or the officer of the State tax who is assigned that function by the Commissioner; (92) quarter shall mean a period comprising three consecutive calendar months, ending on the last day of March, June, September and December of a calendar year; (93) recipient of supply of goods or services or both, means- (a) where a consideration is payable for the supply of goods or services or both, the person who is liable to pay that consideration; (b) where no consideration is payable for the supply of goods, the person to whom the goods are delivered or made available, or to whom possession or use of the goods is given or made availa .....

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..... r both supplied; (106) tax period means the period for which the return is required to be furnished; (107) taxable person means a person who is registered or liable to be registered under section 22 or section 24; (108) taxable supply means a supply of goods or services or both which is leviable to tax under this Act; (109) taxable territory means the territory to which the provisions of this Act apply; (110) telecommunication service means service of any description (including electronic mail, voice mail, data services, audio text services, video text services, radio paging and cellular mobile telephone services) which is made available to users by means of any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sound or intelligence of any nature, by wire, radio, visual or other electro-magnetic means; (111) the Central Goods and Services Tax Act means the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (Central Act 12 of 2017); (112) turnover in State or turnover in Union territory means the aggregate value of all taxable supplies (excluding the value of inward supplies on which tax is payable by a person on reverse charge basis) and ex .....

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