Goods and Service Tax (GST) is an indirect tax which is for India on the supply of products and administration. It could be a comprehensive multistage, goal based assess: comprehensive since it has subsumed nearly all the indirect taxes but few; multi-staged because it is forced at each step within the generation prepare, but is meant to be discounted to all parties within the different stages of generation other than the ultimate customer.

It is a mandatory rule under the Government of India, who basically want to save tax and prevents oneself from the cascading effect of tax.

Yes, it is necessary for every tax payer to pay GST who is registered under the GST regime.

The full form of CGST– Central Goods and Service Tax | SGST– State Goods and Service Tax | IGST– Integrated Goods and Service Tax

CGST and IGST is levied by Central Government, whereas SGST is levied by State Government CGST and SGST is to be paid for the Intra-State Supply, whereas IGST is to be paid for Inter-State Supply.

The Certification is maintained for a period of 3 years under the following conditions.

• The Surveillance Audits are conducted as planned and the client has demonstrated that it continues to satisfy the requirements of the management system standard as confirmed by the Organisation.
• All the non-conformance raised during previous surveillance are closed within the time frame agreed and correction and corrective actions for the non conformities raised during the current audit are identified and accepted by the Organisation as per conditions specified in section 2.5 of this agreement.
• The Internal Audit and the management reviews are conducted as scheduled and there are no issues pending. The client shall maintain suitable records of customer complaints and keep the records of investigation and remedial actions taken with respect to such complaints for verification by the Organisation auditors.
• All outstanding dues to the Organisation are paid.

The limit to be considered under GST laws are different for the different categories:
Manufacturing Sector – 40 lakhs
Service sector – 20 lakhs
In North Eastern states – 10 lakhs

Destination based tax or consumption tax are levied where goods and services are being consumed. In destination–based taxation, exports are considered together with zero taxes whereas imports are taxed on par with the production done in the domestic basis.

Goods and services are bifurcated into five different heads of tax slabs for collection of tax – 0%, 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%.

If there is delay in filing GST, the penalty charged if Rs 200/- per day. There is no such late fees charged in IGST
If the GSTR is not Filed, then there will be a penalty of 10% of Tax due or Rs 10,000, whichever is earlier
If someone has committed fraud, then there will be a penalty of 100% of the tax due or Rs 10,000 whichever is earlier

Composition Scheme is a simple process under the GST law for all the taxpayers, so that they can get rid of the difficult formalities and have to pay the GST at a fixed rate based on the turnover. This scheme is opted by the taxpayer whose turnover is less than Rs 1.0 crore. But now the CBIC has notified the increase to the threshold limit is from Rs 1.0 Crore to Rs. 1.5 Crores. The limit is now Rs 75* lakh, in case of North-Eastern states and Himachal Pradesh. The applicable GST rate under the composition scheme is 1% of the rate of annual turnover, in case of manufacturer or traders(Goods).