TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2025 (10) TMI 1026
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....H, J. The issue that arises for consideration in these Writ Petitions pertains to the validity of declaration under Entry 9 of the Notification No.8/2017-Integrated Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017 and Entry 10 of the Notification No.10/2017-Integrated Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017, which are challenged as being ultra vires of the Constitution as well as the provisions of the Integrated Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017. 2.Learned counsel for petitioner relies on the Judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in Union of India Vs. Mohit Minerals Private Limited, dated 19.05.2022 [2022 (61) G.S.T.L. 257 SC]. 3.The operative portion of the Judgment is as follows: "142. In the present case, the question is whether the impositi....
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....interpretation of Sections 5(3) and 5(4) of the IGST Act, read with Section 2(93) of the CGST Act to contend that the importer can be classified as the 'recipient' of the services. On this interpretation, we have upheld the validity of the impugned notifications under Sections 5(3) and 5(4) of the IGST Act in Section D.2-D.5 of this judgment. The respondents as a matter of fact urged that (i) the Indian importer is not privy to the contract between the foreign exporter and the foreign shipping line; (ii) the Indian importer does not pay consideration to the foreign shipping line; and (iii) the Indian importer does not receive any services from the foreign shipping line since the transportation services are provided by the foreign shipping l....
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....confines of the IGST and CGST Act to determine if this is a composite supply. It would not be permissible to ignore the text of Section 8 of the CGST Act and treat the two transactions as standalone agreements. In a CIF contract, the supply of goods is accompanied by the supply of services of transportation and insurance, the responsibility for which lies on the seller (the foreign exporter in this case). The supply of service of transportation by the foreign shipper forms a part of the bundle of supplies between the foreign exporter and the Indian importer, on which the IGST is payable under Section 5(1) of the IGST Act read with Section 20 of the IGST Act, Section 8 and Section 2(30) of the CGST Act. To levy the IGST on the supply of the ....
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....ion on the part of the delegated legislation that service tax is an independent levy as it was prior to the GST and it go vivisect the transaction of supply to levy more taxes on certain components completely overlooking or forgetting the basic concept of composite supply introduced in the GST legislation and the very idea of levying the GST. Prima facie, it appears that while issuing the impugned notification, the delegated legislature had in mind the provision of the Finance Act, 1994, rather than keeping in mind the object of bringing the GST by making the Constitutional (101st) Amendment Act, 2016 to merge all taxes levied on the goods and services to one tax known as the GST. 133. It appears that despite having levied and coll....
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....sion: (i) The recommendations of the GST Council are not binding on the Union and States for the following reasons: (a) The deletion of Article 279B and the inclusion of Article 279(1) by the Constitution Amendment Act 2016 indicates that the Parliament intended for the recommendations of the GST Council to only have a persuasive value, particularly when interpreted along with the objective of the GST regime to foster cooperative federalism and harmony between the constituent units; (b) Neither does Article 279A begin with a non-obstante clause nor does Article 246A state that it is subject to the provisions of Article 279A. The Parliament and the State legislatures possess simultaneous power to legislate on GST. ....