GST Registration Online in India - The Complete Process Guide PDF

1. GST READY IN INDIA Lets ready for GST from 1stJuly 2017 A Guide to GST by India's Top 25 Consultant Copyright © 2017 Enterslice ITeS Private Limited. Share Alike. Attribution Required.

2. Taxes in India Taxes in India Indirect Taxes Direct Taxes Center State Income Tax VAT Service Tax REPLACED BY GST Excise Duty Entry Tax CST Octroi Custom Luxury Tax

3. Multi-Tiered System – GST rate on Goods Luxury Cars, Pan Masala, Tobacco, Aerated Drinks Soaps, Oil Toothpaste, Refrigerator , Smartphone Mass consumption items like Spices and Mustard oil, Sugar, tea 28% 18% 5% 0% 50% of the consumer price basket, including Food grains, milk, vegitable 12% Processed Food 28% White Goods, Cars

4. GST Rate on services Consulting services, mid-hotel , Exhibition, and catering. Composite supply under work contract All type of Transport services, Taxi / Cab 28% 12% 5% 0% Premium hotel and other services, Airlines, Chit fund, IPR , Royalty / IPR, & Construction 18% Agriculture, Govt., Semi govt, NGO with 12AA Certificate, Emergency services, value hotel with Daily rent less Rs. 1K

5. Relief for general public GST EXEMPETED LIST GST Council to work out exempted list of items Key food items , Export of services to be kept out of tax net Those items that do not face VAT/Service tax may be kept out Some items that do not attract excise duty also to go tax free PROBABELY TAX FREE ITEMS Bread, Milk, Curd, Salt, fresh veggies and fruits to go tax free TAX FREE ITEMS Birndi, Sindoor, Prasad sold at temples GST EXEMPET LIST Human blood contraceptives, Primary Healthcare, Education

6. GST Models Three Prime Models Central GST State GST Dual GST GST to be levied by the Centre GST to be levied by the States GST to be levied by the Centre and Stated

7. New Tax Heading under GST - Central State Tax - VAT/Sales Tax §- Central Excise - Entry Tax §- Service Tax - Tax on Lottery etc CGST SGST IGST §- SAD - Surcharge and Cess §- CVD - Purchase Tax §- AED - Entertainment Tax - Luxury Tax §- Surcharge and Cess

8. System of Levying GST Goods/Services produced and consumed in same State Inter-state consumption of Goods/Services Exported Goods/Services Imported Goods/Services Present Indirect Taxes GST Type Excise Duty Service Tax Central GST Customs Duties Central Sales Tax CGST + SGST Rate levied In targeted GST levied (Now dropped) GST not applicable (Cannot export taxes) CGST +SGST Rate Ievied State Sales Tax Entertainment Tax State GST State VAT Professional Tax

9. GST Rules 1. Accounts & Records Rules [3 Rules] 8. Transitional Provisions Rules [4 Rules] 2. Advance Ruling [5 Rules] 9. Input Tax Credit Rules [10 Rules] 3. Appeals and Revision [8 Rules] 10. Tax Invoice, Credit & Debit Notes Rules [8 Rules] 4. Assessment and Audit [5 Rules] 11. Payment of Tax Rules [4 Rules] 5. Electronic Way Bill [5 Rules] 12. Refund Rules [8 Rules] 6. Composition Rules [5 Rules] 13. Registration Rules [18 Rules] 7. Determination of Value of Supply Rules [8 Rules] 14. Returns Rules [25 Rules]

10. GST Transitional credits 1. Taxpayer will credit against stock as on 30/06/17 2. Need to submit declaration by 30/09/17 3. For intra-state sale of goods which is non-excisable goods-ITC under GST shall be allowed Max 60% of GST Rate 4. For inter- state sale of goods which is non-excisable goods-ITC under GST shall be allowed max 30% of GST Rate 5. Credit on opening stock shall be only allowed if goods lying as on 30/06/17 is sold with 180 days. 6. Any receipt of VAT & Excisable goods in the month of july-17, full ITC under GST shall be allowed 7. In Case Taxpayer will return the goods within 180 days from the date of purchase, he will get 100% ITC under new rule subject certain restriction under the GST laws.

11. Registration Number ü The taxpayer will be allotted a State wise PAN based 15 digit Goods and/or Services Taxpayer unique Identification Number (GSTIN). ü The digits in the GSTIN will denote the following State Code PAN Entity Code Blank Check Digit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

12. Multiple Registrations within the same State ü The GST model laws allows multiple registrations within one State for different business verticals like Garment and food business in one state. Few condition have been imposed- ü ITC across the business verticals of such taxable persons shall not be allowed unless the goods and / or services are actually supplied across the verticals. ü For the recovery of dues, all business verticals with one PAN, though separately registered, will be considered as a single legal entity.

13. Checklist to make your business GST ready ü Define your Goods / Services in HSN / SAC and fix GST rate in your billing system ü Understand your business process in GST scenario and classify which Business transactions are goods and services ü Classify your Business transactions under goods and services, and place of provisions ü Need to Define the change in business in stages of pre, during and post manufacturing process, Define logistic model, Branch and Warehouse ü Re-define your sales policy, amend contracts, Return terms and discount policy. ü Need Review your Vendors nature of goods, place of supply, contractual terms & Obtain GSTIN No with HSN / SAC for each product item ü Pricing Strategy with product and services

14. Intra State - Invoice Invoice – Intra State – Under Present Law Particulars Value of Supply of Goods Add: Excise (say) @ 15% Sub Total Add: VAT (say) @ 15% [Caution: Cascading Effect] Total Amount 200,000 30,000 2,30,000 34,500 2,64,500 Invoice – Intra State – under GST Law Particulars Value of Supply of Goods Add: CGST (say) @ 15% Add: SGST (say) @ 15% Total Amount 2,00,000 15,000 15,000 2,60,000

15. Intra State - Invoice Invoice –Inter State – under GST Law Particulars Amount Value of Supply of Goods 200,000 Add: IGST (say) @ 28% 56,000 Total 260,000 Invoice – Intra State– Under Present Law Particulars Amount Value of Supply of Services 100,000 Add: SGST (say) @ 18% 18,000 Total 118,000

16. Intra State - Invoice Invoice – Intra State – under GST Law Particulars Amount Value of Supply of Services Add: CGST (say) @ 8% Add: SGST (say) @ 7% Total Invoice – Inter State – under GST Law Particulars Value of Supply of Services Add: IGST (say) @ 15% Total 100,000 7,000 7,000 115,000 Amount 100,000 15,000 115,000

17. Exemption Limit for Small Scale Business under Goods and Service Tax (GST) The Goods & Services Tax (GST) Council has decided that businesses in the North-eastern and hill states with annual turnover below Rs.10 lakh would be out of the GST net, while the threshold for the exemption in the rest of India would be an annual turnover of Rs.20 lakh.

18. Good and Services Tax Network (GSTN) A GST Council has been formed by the Finance ministry in order to establish common filing platform for th community The company was incorporated on March 28, 2013 as a non-government, private limited company Itwill have a self-sustaining revenue model, where GSTN will be able to levy user charges on taxpayers and tax authorities for availing its services It is an exclusive national agency responsible for delivering integrated indirect tax-related services involving multiple tax authorities

19. Composition Levy GST - Goods and Service Tax - 1% to 3% without ITC for turnover less than 75Lac in FY

20. Composition scheme under GST Act • Reduced Tax Liability ( 1% to 5% ) • Reduced Compliances ( only 4 return in a year instead 37 in normal scheme • Increases Liquidity – Need to pay taxes on quarterly basis • No Input Tax Credit • No Tax Invoices • High Penalty • Only Intra-state trading • Not for E-commerce / App driven business operator • Turnover limit In Financial year Rs. 75 Lac • Claim of TDS is allowed

21. Good and Services Tax Network (GSTN) WHAT STATES NEED TO DEVELOP/MODIFY WHAT GSTN NEEDS TO BUILD GSTN SHAREHOLDING State Govt Along with empowered group of state finance ministry Registration Assessment 24.5% 24.5% Union Govt Return Filing Refund NSG Strategic Investment Corporation 10% Tax Payment Recovery HDFC Bank 10% IGST Settlement Appeal 10% HDFC M IS/81/Dashboards Investigation 10% ICICI Bank Dealer Information & Ledger Survey / Enforcement 10% LIC Housing Finance Helpdesk/Call Centre MIS/Analytics

22. GST Tax Ledger (e-Tax Liability Ledger | e-Credit ledger) e-Tax Liability Lager As all we Know Form 26AS in TDS Credit, which shows the tax credit statement of the Assesse in pan login ; in same in the proposed GST regime, e-Tax Ledger is prescribed to contain information on tax credit received from counter party GST and tax liabilitybasedonreturnsfilledbythetaxableperson E-Cash Ledger Tax In GST regime, the "Deposit" of the tax, interest & penalty can be made by the following modes Tax Net banking Credit / Debit Card NEFT National Electronics fund transfer RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement

23. The Electronic Cash Ledger Deposit of Interest, Tax, Penalty, Fee or any other amount by a taxablepersoncan be madebythe followingmodes: a. InternetBanking b. Credit/DebitCards c. NationalElectronicFundsTransfer- NEFT d. RealTime GrossSettlement– RTGS e. Anyothermodeas may be prescribed– (Challanpayment inBanks)

24. GST Tax Ledger (e-Tax Liability Ledger | e-Credit ledger) E-Liability Ledger E-Credit Ledger This ledger is required to be maintained electronically for all GST Liabilities viz: Input Tax Credit (ITC) on purchases shall be credited to e-Credit Leger as per GST return filed by the counter party. The e-Credit Ledger includes: - Liability based on self-assessment of GST returns by 10thand 15thof the Month - ITC on inward purchases from Registered Tax Payers ITC on closing stock as on 30stJune 2017 - - Any In form of Liability out of demand notice for GST authorities - Credit utilized against the available amounts in the e-cash ledger or e- credit leger

25. FAQs CPIN stands for Common portal Identification Number(CPIN) given at the time of generation of GST challan. It is a I4 digit unique number to identify the challan.CPINvalid only for I5 days. CIN stands for ChallanIdentification Number. It is a I7 digit number that is I4-digit CPIN plus 3-digit Bank COde. CIN is generated by the authorized bank/Reserve Bank of India (RBI) when payment is actually recieved by such authorized bank or RBI and credited in the relevant government account held with them. It is an indication that the payment has beenrealized and creditedto the appropriate government account. CIN is communicated by the authorized bank to taxpayer as well as toGSTN. • E-Cash Ledger, E-Credit Ledger and E-Liability Ledger featuresof proposedGSTregime. are unique • The taxcredit system predicted to be updated on real-time basis in GST Network. entire tax payment and Form-26AS income figures is now universally accepted by statutory authorities. Similarly, in the days to come GST E-Leedger reconciliation with Forms 26AS will be the prima-facie exercise for all compliances. reconciliation with E-FPB stands for Electronic Focal Point Branch. These are branches of authorized bank which are authorized to collect payment of GST. Each authorized bank will nominate only one branch as its E-FPB will have to open accounts under each major head for all governments. Total38 accounts(one each for CGST, IGST and one each for SGST for each State/UT Govt.)will have to be opened. Any amount received by suchE- FPB towards GST will be credited to the appropriate account held by such E-FPB.For NEFT/RTGS Transactions,RBIwill actas E-FPB. Assessees and •

26. GST Return Filling Forms in from GSTR-1 to 8

27. GST Returns (GST Tax payer @ Normal Rates) GSTR 1 Outward Supply 10th of Next Month GSTR 2 Inward Supply 15th of Next Month 37 GSTR 3 Monthly Return 20th of Next Month GSTR 8 Annual Return 31st Dec of Next FY

28. GST Returns (GST Tax payer @ Compounding Rates) GSTR 4 Quarterly Return 18th of Next Month to Quarterly 5 GSTR 8 Inward Supply 31st Dec of Next FY

29. Utilization of ITC & Cross Utilization Input Tax Output Tax ( In the order of Preference) IGST CGST SGST IGST CGST CGST IGST SGST IGST SGST

30. Compliance Rating 04 01 Every person liable to pay GST shall be rated and will be assigned a GST compliance rating score The methodologywouldbeprescribed details of parameter & The compliance rating score will be updated periodically intimated as follows: - To the taxable person - Will be placed in the public domain and will be The rating would be based on his compliance with the provisions of CGST,SGST &IGST 03 02

31. Registration Eligibility The following persons shall have to register irrespective of the turnover • • • • • • • • • • Person making any inter-state taxable supply (i.e. selling outside the state) Casual Taxable person Person who required to pay under Reverse Charge Non-resident taxable person A person required to deduct tax (e.g. e-commerce business – marketplace). The person supplying goods or services or both as an agent of any other person. Input Service Distributor A person who supplies goods or services through e-commerce. Every e-commerce operator An aggregator who supplies services under his brand name

32. Anti-Profiteering measure ü In order to prevent any rise in price of commodities after goods and service tax (GST) implementation, the Centre has proposed an ‘anti-profiteering’ measure to ensure that trade and industrypass the benefitsofreductionintax rates toconsumers. ü As per Model GST Law, the central government will constitute an authority or entrust the task to an existing authority to examine that the input tax credits or reduction in tax rates are passed byregistered tax payersto consumers. ü Tax evasionup to Rs 2 crore a bailableoffence

33. Pricing Analysis Under GST most of the indirect taxes are subsumed ü IGST: ITC shall be seamlessly available and hence some taxes like entry tax, LBT, CST, etc., which were hitherto costs shall be eliminated ü ITC Reversal: Even certain credit reversals currently prevalent under state VAT will be removed and thus cost to that extent will go down ü Price Change: When GST comes inforce; Price revision cannot be done all of a sudden

34. GST Training All the employees of the organization shall undergo extensive training in GST so that its implications as well as documentation can be well understood and taken care of Training should encompass all the facets of the GST so that empowered employeescan take appropriate and correct decisions with the help of professionals when they face any challenge

35. GST Training All the employees of the organization shall undergo extensive training in GST so that its implications as well as documentation can be well understood and taken care of Training should encompass all the facets of the GST so that empowered employeescan take appropriate and correct decisions with the help of professionals when they face any challenge

36. Transition Issues ü Migration of existing tax payers to GST ü Amount of CENVAT Credit carried forward in a return to be allowed as ITC ü Unveiled CENVAT credit on Capital Goods ü Pending Refund Claims ü Credit on Stock ü Switching from regular to Composition scheme ü Any many more

37. GST Council Recommendation a) The taxes, all type of cessand surcharges to be subsumed under GST; b) The goods and services that may be subjected to or exempted from the GST; c) The date from which the specified petroleum products would be subject to GST; d) Model GST laws, principles of levy, apportionment of IGST and the principles that govern the place of supply; e) The threshold limit of turnover below which the goods and services may be exempted from GST; f) The rates including floor rates with bands of GST; g) Any special rate or rates for a specified period to raise additional resources during any natural calamity or disaster; and h) Special provision with respect to the North-East States, J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarkhand

38. VOTING STRENGTH GST COUNCIL Chairperson UNION FINANCE MINISTER Centre 1/3 VOTE IN COUNCIL Other Member from Centre MINISTER OF STATE FOR FINANCE States 2/3 WEIGHT IN COUNCEL Vice-chairperson ONE OF THE STATE FINANCE MINISTERS Members DECISION NEEDS 75% VOTE SUPPORT STSTE FINANCE MINISTERS

39. Job Work ü Section 43A ü Registered Taxable Person to Job Worker (No GST) ü Job Worker to get registered ü Turnover will be included in principal (goods supplied) ü Job Worker to Customer (possible) ü ITC – section 16A ü 1 year / 3 years (if not received back / billed then the ITC amount has to be paid along with interest) ü Exempted Goods/Non-Taxable Goods (JW provision not applicable)

40. E-Commerce E-CommerceOperator E-CommerceAggregator E Registration of GST Tax Collectionat Source (TCS) Matchingin E-Commercetransactions Discrepancy will be communicated E-return

41. ImpactAnalysis Impact Analysis with respect to Rate of Tax must be done when the rates are finalized by GST Council (This is important because the rate of taxes under GST will be different is bound to be different from the existing rates and hence it shall have tremendous impact on the prices of the product or services) ü GST shall have a transformational impact on the Industry (As GST is levied on Supply as opposed to Excise which is levied on manufacture and VAT which is levied on Sales, it fundamentally alters the way of doing business) ü GST shall make India a common market, thus decisions like setting up warehouses and supply chain management shall be revisited; even decision of setting up new units shall consider the impact of GST

42. GST – The Conclusion ü The target date for introduction of GST is 1st JULY 2017. ü Introduction of this transformational tax reform is expected to broaden the tax base, increase tax compliance and reduce economic distortions caused by inter-State variations in taxes. ü GST will boost economic activity and will benefit everyone. ü It will streamline the tax administration, avoid harassment of the business and result in higher revenue collection for the Centre and States. ü Compliance costs for the industry will go down. ü Last but not the least, it will create more jobs. ü In sum, it would be a win-win situation for everyone i.e. taxpayers, governments, consumers, etc.

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44. GST – The Conclusion ü The target date for introduction of GST is 1st JULY 2017. ü Introduction of this transformational tax reform is expected to broaden the tax base, increase tax compliance and reduce economic distortions caused by inter-State variations in taxes. ü GST will boost economic activity and will benefit everyone. ü It will streamline the tax administration, avoid harassment of the business and result in higher revenue collection for the Centre and States. ü Compliance costs for the industry will go down. ü Last but not the least, it will create more jobs. ü In sum, it would be a win-win situation for everyone i.e. taxpayers, governments, consumers, etc.

45. What is Enterslice Role in GST ü Business model and process definition so that your business will be GST Compliant ü Effective navigation through transitional and cut off issues like pre-GST credit and pre-GST stock of goods ü Review of of tax compliance software, Business contracts, tax manuals, statutory records templates, calendars of the complianceand training of your Finance team ü Discussion with Senior management on execution of GST ü GST impact Analysis and the route for future for specified groups like sales, supply chain, ITC, e.t.c. and locations like head office, depots and factory, etc.

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