The Goods And Services Tax

Value Added Tax (VAT; also known as Goods and Services Tax, under the acronym GST in a number of OECD countries) has become a major source of revenue for governments around the world. Some 165 countries operated a VAT at the time of the completion of the International VAT/GST Guidelines in 2016, more than twice as many as 25 years before. As VAT continued to spread across the world, international trade in goods and services has also expanded rapidly in an increasingly globalised economy. One consequence of these developments has been the greater interaction between VAT systems, along with growing risks of double taxation and unintended non-taxation in the absence of international VAT co-ordination. The International VAT/GST Guidelines now present a set of internationally agreed standards and recommended approaches to address the issues that arise from the uncoordinated application of national VAT systems in the context of international trade. They focus in particular on trade in services and intangibles, which poses increasingly important challenges for the design and operation of VAT systems worldwide. They notably include the recommended principles and mechanisms to address the challenges for the collection of VAT on cross-border sales of digital products that had been identified in the context of the OECD/G20 Project on Base and Erosion and Profit Shifting (the BEPS Project). These Guidelines were adopted as a Recommendation by the Council of the OECD in September 2016.

Studies the evolution of GST in India since the Report of the Indirect Taxation Enquiry Committee of 1977.

Strictly according the the syllabus prescribed by: Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla for B.Com.-III Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar for B.Com. (Pass & Hons.), Sem.-IV Panjab University, Chandigarh for B.Com.-II, Sem.-III and BBA-II, Sem.-IV

About the Goods and Services Tax (G.S.T) Book: • The law stated in the book is as amended upto October, 2022 • Amendments in GST made by the Finance Act, 2022 have been duly incorporated in the book. • Most authentic, up-to-date and comprehensive text book on GST. • The book covers all topics of the syllabi of various universities for undergraduate and postgraduate courses. • In the present revised edition almost all the chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. • At the end of each chapter large number of MCQ and Short Questions with Ans. have been given which enable students to learn faster. This unique feature will serve as the backbone in understanding the whole chapter. • Law relating to GST has been discussed thoroughly in easy language and in lucid style. • Every chapter contains complete explanation of the topic with suitable examples and, where necessary, followed by graded solved illustrations and questions for practice with Ans.