Effective service requirement: officers must explore alternative service modes beyond the GST portal and afford personal hearing; non-compliance voids...
Permanent Establishment and Business Connection: foreign consultancy receipts not attributable where no fixed base or corporate veil piercing establis...
Levy of GST on fees charged by electricity regulatory commissions examined: activities of tariff regulation, inter-state transmission regulation and licence issuance are statutory, regulatory and quasi-judicial functions and do not constitute 'business' or 'supply' in furtherance of business under the CGST definitions, and services rendered by a court or tribunal fall under Schedule III exclusion; consequence is that fees charged by the commission are not taxable as GST and the show cause notice was set aside, with departmental challenge to the decision dismissed by the Supreme Court rendering the position final.
Levy of GST on fees charged by electricity regulatory commissions examined: activities of tariff regulation, inter-state transmission regulation and licence issuance are statutory, regulatory and quasi-judicial functions and do not constitute 'business' or 'supply' in furtherance of business under the CGST definitions, and services rendered by a court or tribunal fall under Schedule III exclusion; consequence is that fees charged by the commission are not taxable as GST and the show cause notice was set aside, with departmental challenge to the decision dismissed by the Supreme Court rendering the position final.
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