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Introduction:

Joint development agreement (JDA) is an agreement entered between the landowner and the developer wherein the landowner would provide the right to the developer to develop the land, in return for construction services to be provided by the developer.The developer would be entitled for a share in the developed property(generally allotted through supplementary agreement (SA))in return for such construction services. Without getting into whether GST is liable or not on these...

On the introduction of GST, the credit of taxes under the existing law, predominantly Central Excise, Service Tax and Value Added Tax, was allowed to be carry forwarded vide the transitional provision either as Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) or State Goods and Service Tax (SGST) as the case may be accordingly taxpayers did carry forwarded the credit by filing transactional credit by filing Form TRAN -01. The common observation of the department during the transitional credit...

Background:  

There is a system prevalent in some states where the transfer of tenancy rights against tenancy premium which is also known as “Pagadi system”. This is similar to any other renting system that is prevalent across the world i.e. landlord and a tenant. However, the only deviating factor is that the tenant also becomes a part owner of the house but not of the land.  

In the Pagadi system, the tenant acquires the tenancy rights in the property against payment of...