As part of the Government of India’s (GoI) efforts to promote manufacturing and other operations in India, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has revamped the scheme for manufacturing and processing in a bonded facility. The revised initiative underscores the GoI’s ongoing commitment to improve India’s ranking on the Ease of Doing Business index.
The CBEC has issued FAQs containing 29 Questions and Answers for “IT/ ITES” sector under ‘GST Sectoral Series’.
The FAQs give clarity on various issues affecting the IT/ ITES sector and cover several topics such as classification, rate, registration requirement for SEZ units, place of supply, input tax credits (ITC), input service distribution (ISD), composite supply, export of service, cross-charge and invoicing, etc.Read More »
An ever recurring question of EU VAT is referred to the ECJ namely, whether the storage of goods is a service connected with immovable property, which should be subject to VAT where the warehouse is located (Art 47) or rather it is a regular service which should be taxed in accordance with the general rules (Art 44 of the VAT Directive). Read More »
The VAT warehouse is a simplification regime provided for by art. 50-bis of Law Decree n. 331/1993, implementing art. 157 to 160 of Directive 2006/112/EC. In order to benefit from the VAT warehousing simplification regime, goods have to be physically introduced into the warehouse, a “virtual” storage of goods is not allowed Read More »