GST on license fee charged by the States for grant of Liquor licences to vendors

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..... ne, H.P. 2. The Joint Commissioner of State Taxes and Excise, Central Zone, North Zone, Flying Squad, NZ/ SZ/ CZ. 3. The Dy. Commissioner of State Taxes and Excise, Shimla, Solan, BBN Baddi, Sirmour, Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Mandi. Kullu, Chamba, Kangra, Revenue Distt Nurpur and Una, H.P 4. The Asstt. Commissioner of State Taxes and Excise, Incharge Distt. Kinnour, H.P. Dated Shimla-9 the 31 .....

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..... utandis to the demand raised by Service Tax/Excise authorities on license fee for alcoholic liquor for human consumption in the pre-GST era, i.e. for the period from 01-04-2016 to 30-06-2017. 3. Grant of liquor licences by State Government against payment of consideration in the form of licence fee, application fee etc. was a taxable service under Service Tax, therefore to implement GST Council' .....

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..... under sub-section 2 (b) of section 7 of HPGST Act, 2017, Notification No. 25/2019-State Tax (Rate) dated 1st Oct., 2019 has been issued. 5. GST Council further decided in the 37th meeting held on 20.09.2019, to clarify that this special dispensation applies only to supply of service by way of grant of liquor licenses by the State Governments as an agreement between the Centre and States and has n .....

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