Rajasthan Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Rules, 2023

The amendment provides that where an applicant opts for authentication of Aadhaar number, he shall, while submitting the application, undergo authentication of Aadhaar number and the date of submission of the application in such cases shall be the date of authentication of the Aadhaar number, or fifteen days from the submission of the application in Part B of FORM GST REG-01.

Government of Rajasthan has waived late fee for non-filing of FORM GSTR-4

The amount of late fee payable shall stand waived which is in excess of two hundred and fifty rupees and shall stand fully waived where the total amount of state tax payable in the said return is nil for the registered persons who
fail to furnish the return in FORM GSTR-4 for the quarters from July, 2017 to March 2019 or for the Financial years from 2019-20 to 2021-22.

Revised Custom Duty Exemptions in Excess of Standard Rates

The notification also extends the exemption to a new category of goods, ‘Drugs, Medicines or Food for Special Medical Purposes (FSMP) used for treatment of rare diseases specified in List 38.’ The notification substitutes the terms “drugs or medicines” with “Drugs, Medicines or Food for Special Medical Purposes (FSMP)”.

Health Cess Exemption on Import of Goods for X-ray Machines

The present notification amends the previous notification dated 2nd February, 2020 issued by the Ministry. The notification enumerates the list of goods imported for manufacture of x-ray machines that will be exempted from health cess.