Food apps like Swiggy, Zomato, taxi apps like Ola, Uber need to collect and submit GST
New Delhi:
Food aggregators such as Swiggy and Zomato will have to collect and deposit tax at the rate of 5 per cent from today, a move that will widen the tax base as food vendors who are currently outside the GST range, will be able to provide services through these online platforms. shall be liable to GST. ,
At present, restaurants registered under GST are collecting tax.
In addition, cab aggregators like Ola and Uber will have to deposit 5 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) for booking of 2 and 3 wheeler vehicles with effect from January 1, also, shoes will attract 12 per cent tax from today, irrespective of prices.
These are among the many changes in the GST regime that have come into effect in this new year 2022.
Further, to tackle evasion, the GST law has been amended to provide that input tax credit will now be available only when the credit appears in the GSTR 2B (Purchase Return) of the taxpayer. The five per cent provisional credit, which was earlier allowed in the GST rules, will not be allowed after January 1, 2022.
Bipin Sapra, Tax Partner, EY India, said, “This change will have an immediate impact on the working capital of taxpayers who are currently availing a credit of 105 per cent of the matched credit. This change will require the industry to verify this. also mandate that the purchase is made from genuine and compliant seller.”
Other anti-theft measures that will come into effect from the new year include mandatory Aadhaar authentication for claiming GST refunds, blocking the facility to file GSTR-1 in cases where the business has not paid taxes and GSTR-3B has to be filed in Tatkal. Last month.
Currently, the law prohibits filing of return for outward supplies or GSTR-1, if a business fails to file GSTR-3B for the last two months.
While businesses file GSTR-1 for a particular month by the 11th day of the following month, GSTR-3B, through which businesses pay taxes, has to be filed in a sequential manner between 20-24th day of the next month. goes.
Further, the GST law has been amended to allow GST officers to visit the premises for recovery of tax arrears without any prior show cause notice, in cases where tax paid in GSTR-3B The supply is less based on the volume of suppressed than the description. In GSTR-1.
Shri Sapra said that the amendment is likely to curb the malpractices of passage of input tax credit through declaration in GSTR-1 without payment of taxes in GSTR-3B, actual difference in GSTR-1 and GSTR 3B like unadjusted Taking forward credit notes likely to face unnecessary scrutiny
The move is aimed at curbing the menace of spurious billing whereby sellers will show excess sales in GSTR-1 so that buyers can claim Input Tax Credit (ITC) but suppressed sales in GSTR-3B to reduce GST liability. report a.
Saket Patwari, Executive Director (Indirect Taxes), Nexdigm said that e-commerce operators are now liable to pay GST instead of restaurants and the tax base of the government may increase due to the above as these operators are also liable to pay GST for unregistered restaurants. will be responsible for. E-com operators may be asked to obtain registration in each state where restaurants do not exist even if they do not have a presence and have all regular GST compliance even if there is no infrastructure in the state. This can become a challenge. To handle audit and scrutiny in all states for startups and new e-com operators,” Mr. Patwari said.
Mr Sapra further said that this amendment will also widen the tax base as food vendors who are currently outside the GST range will be liable for GST if provided through these online platforms. Thus, it has become more expensive to purchase from these platforms.
“Given that restaurants sometimes supply goods along with restaurant services, an invoice may contain multiple payments by many people and hence would involve complexity of operations. The supplies made through them on e-commerce operators This practice of putting the burden on the platform is putting additional burden on a platform which is just facilitating the supply,” Mr. Sapra said.
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