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- Whether GST is payable on cancellation charges/ penalty/ liquidated damages ?
Whether GST is payable on cancellation charges/ penalty/ liquidated damages ?
Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no
Held - These damages are claimed by the applicant from the contractee due to the delays in making available possession of site, drawings & other schedules by the contractee beyond the milestones fixed for completion of project. These damages are consideration for tolerating an act or a situation arising out of the contractual obligation.
Further Section 2(31)(b) of the CGST Act mentions that consideration in relation to the supp.....
Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no
Held - The applicant has submitted that cancellation charges collected from the passengers may be shared with the owners or drivers. The activity of tolerating the cancellation by the applicant for a consideration is supply of service by virtue of clause (e) of para 5 of Schedule II of CGST Act, 2017 and attracts GST at 18 %.
.....Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no
Held - The applicant has submitted that cancellationcharges collected from the passengers may be shared with the owners or drivers. We find that the activity of tolerating the cancellation by the applicant for aconsideration is supply of service by virtue of clause (e) of para 5 of Schedule II of CGST Act, 2017 and attracts GST at 18 %.
.....Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes
Held - The issue that arose for consideration in Lemon Tree Hotel Hotel was whether forfeiture of the amount received by a hotel from a customer on cancellation of the booking would be leviable to service tax under section 66E(e). The Tribunal held that the retention of the amount on cancellation would not attract service tax under section 66E (e)
A Division Bench of the Tribunal in K.N. Food Industries examined the.....
Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes
Held - The appellant has stated that the amount of JPY 130,000,000/- was paid to compensate for the work undertaken by Honda Japan towards the commencement of volume production of the new Honda CIVIC Model and details have also been provided, which details clearly indicate that the amount was paid to compensate Honda Japan for the research and allied work it had performed at its end and not towards supply of any technical information to the ap.....
Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes
Held - We also find that the all payments have been received towards the compensation for non performance of contract and the same will not be within the definition of Section 66 E (e) of the Act, which is for obligation to refrain from the Act or to tolerate and act of situation by the service provider. The Appellant has not provided any service as the Development Agreement itself has been cancelled. So, there is no question of any liability .....
- Whether reimbursement of expenses is leviable to GST?
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- Whether marketing and sales promotion services to customers located outside India is intermediary or export of services ?
- Whether order / show cause notice is valid if passed without pre-show cause notice consultation or GST DRC-01 (summary SCN) or GST DRC-01A (tax intimation notice) ?
- Whether recovery proceedings can be initiated if assessee is willing to file an appeal ?
- Whether input tax credit can be transferred to the transferee entity in case of an inter-state business transfer ?
- Whether interest is payable for the period during which the reply to the deficiency memo remains pending ?
- Whether combined show cause notice can be issued covering multiple financial years ?
- Whether tax can be recovered by Department without prior intimation in Form DRC-01D ?
- Whether a penalty equal to 200% of the tax amount can be demanded in case of detention or seizure of goods ?