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2023 (12) TMI 1287

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..... is tax deducted by the contractor on execution of the contract of the petitioner, cannot be said to be input tax credit. Such tax deducted at source is reflected in the electronic cash register and not in the electronic credit ledger. Only the amount which is reflected in the electronic credit ledger is to be treated as input tax credit and not any amount of tax which is reflected in the electronic cash register can be treated as the input tax credit. The two judgments relied by the learned Counsel for the petitioner of other High Courts, i.e. one by the Madras High Court in the case of DMR Constructions v. Assistant Commissioner, Commercial Tax Department [ 2021 (4) TMI 261 - MADRAS HIGH COURT] does not take note of the proviso to Section 140, and without taking note of the proviso to Section 140, the judgment has been rendered. Therefore, the said judgment would not be applicable while reading the provisions of the GST Act, including the definition as provided in Sections 2(62) and 2(63), as well as the proviso to Section 140 of the CGST/SGST Act - The next judgment of Jharkhand High Court in M/s Subhash Singh Choudhary and M/s Bhilai Engineering Corporation Ltd v. The State .....

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..... nsitioned to GST regime credit, and such amount cannot be claimed in TRAN-1 as credit. The petitioner/assessee may file an application under Section 142(3) of the SGST/CGST Act 2017 for a refund, but the TDS is not an input tax credit for which the provision of Section 140 is applicable as transitional credit under the GST regime. 3.2 Section 2(62) and 2(63) defines input tax and input tax credit as under: 2. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (62) input tax in relation to a registered person, means the central tax, State tax, integrated tax or Union territory tax charged on any supply of goods or services or both made to him and includes (a) the integrated goods and services tax charged on import of goods; (b) the tax payable under the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 9; (c) the tax payable under the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 5 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act; (d) the tax payable under the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 9 of the respective State Goods and Services Tax Act; or (e) the tax payable under the provisions of sub-sections ( .....

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..... ovisions of the said section: Provided that the Commissioner may, on the recommendations of the Council, extend the period of ninety days by a further period not exceeding ninety days. Provided further that where the inputs have been received from an Export Oriented Unit or a unit located in Electronic Hardware Technology Park, the credit shall be allowed to the extent as provided in sub-rule (7) of rule 3 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004. (1A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1), the Commissioner may, on the recommendations of the Council, extend the date for submitting the declaration electronically in FORM GST TRAN-1 by a further period not beyond 31st March, 2020, in respect of registered persons who could not submit the said declaration by the due date on account of technical difficulties on the common portal and in respect of whom the Council has made a recommendation for such extension. (2) Every declaration under sub-rule (1) shall- (a) in the case of a claim under sub-section (2) of Section 140, specify separately the following particulars in respect of every item of capital goods as on the appointed day- (i) the amount of tax or duty avail .....

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..... nd twenty per cent. respectively of the said tax; (iii) The scheme shall be available for six tax periods from the appointed date. (b) The credit of central tax shall be availed subject to satisfying the following conditions, namely:- (i) such goods were not unconditionally exempt from the whole of the duty of excise specified in the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 or were not nil rated in the said Schedule; (ii) the document for procurement of such goods is available with the registered person; (iii) The registered person availing of this scheme and having furnished the details of stock held by him in accordance with the provisions of clause (b) of sub-rule (2), submits a statement in FORM GST TRAN 2by 31 st March 2018, or within such period as extended by the Commissioner, on the recommendations of the Council, for each of the six tax periods during which the scheme is in operation indicating therein, the details of supplies of such goods effected during the tax period: Provided that the registered persons filing the declaration in FORM GST TRAN-1 in accordance with sub-rule (1A), may submit the statement in FORM GST TRAN-2 by 30th April, .....

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