GST - Impact on Procurements for the manufacturers

  • Category: sector specific
  • Date: 15-04-2020
  • Writers: CA Madhukar N Hiregange, CA Mahadev R

The Government of India along with the States have moved very fast in last couple of months to roll out GST law from 01.04.2017. Latest being forming of GST council,  rules, FAQs etcetera could certainly make the GST introduction reality. The business community along with professionals have to analyse the GST impact on pricing policies, various business functions such as sales, procurement, cash flow, its internal control system and IT systems. In this article, we analyse the impact on...

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Aftermath of COVID19-Stimulate Pharma Industry

  • Category: sector specific
  • Date: 14-04-2020
  • Writer: CA Vasant K. Bhat

COVID19 has applied sudden break to halt all industries except few. Pharma is one of the exceptional industries wherein some activities are happening being essential in the current crisis. Though pharma industries are allowed to function during the lockdown, many challenges like, transportation of employees, movement of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), movement of finished goods and sourcing of required bulk drugs have slowed down the production and supply. Substantial amount of APIs...

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Critical issues in logistics sector

  • Category: sector specific
  • Date: 14-04-2020
  • Writers: CA Anil Kumar Bezwada, CA Ashish Chaudhary

Introduction:

Logistics industry has a critical role to play in the manufacturing industry and trading activities. It is considered as backbone of the economy. In simple words logistics can be considered as movement of goods from point of origin to point of consumption. After raw materials cost, transportation cost is major one to play critical role in fixing the price. Logistics activities involves loading, unloading, packing, storage, warehousing and transportation. The new tax reform...

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Critical aspects of GST – Hotel Industry

  • Category: sector specific
  • Date: 08-04-2020
  • Writer: CA Rajesh Maddi

Hotel industry is one of the major impacted industries due to Corona virus (Covid 19) Pandemic. It is high time for the industry to reduce their costs and ensure that they are not hit with GST non-compliance notices. Since, the substantial business of the industry would be B2C (business to customer), any future demands by GST authorities would become cost.

Considering the vast experience in the hotel industry, the author wishes to explain the GST related burning issues faced by the hotel...

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