Vanita Bhargava is a Senior Member of the Dispute Resolution Team in the New Delhi office. She is also an advocate on record in Supreme Court. She has almost 20 years of experience in a variety of matters including matters relating to constitutional laws, taxation laws, environment laws, civil laws, corporate laws, mining laws, forest laws, shareholding disputes and arbitration (domestic and international), banking laws and insolvency matters.
Kabir is Partner with the Firm's International Trade & Regulatory Practice Group and leads the Aerospace & Defence Practice of the Firm.
United States (US) by way of a Presidential Proclamation dated 31 May 2019 has revoked, effective from 5 June 2019, the ‘beneficiary developing country’ status accorded to India under the ‘Generalised System of Preferences’ (GSP) since 1975. This move follows on the heels of the revocation of the preferential status for Turkey, sanctions placed on imports from Mexico and Canada and their subsequent roll-back.
The Hon’ble Supreme Court, vide its order dated 29 May 2019, while refusing to interfere with the order of the Bombay High Court, has held that the position regarding the arrest provisions under Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (CGST Act) and the corresponding state goods and services tax laws (SGST Acts) will be clarified by a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court before whom all similar matters shall be placed.
The Government of Kerala has introduced a cess as per clause 14 of the Kerala Finance Bill, 2019 called the “Kerala Flood Cess”. Effective Date: The Kerala Flood Cess would be effective from the 1 June 2019 and will be in effect for a period of two years.
The Hon’ble High Court of Orissa, vide its order dated 17 April 2019 (Order), in in Safari Retreats Private Limited v Chief Commissioner of Central Goods & Service Tax [W.P. (C) 20463 of 2018], has allowed availment of input tax credit (ITC) on goods and services used for construction of immovable property and used in the course or furtherance of business.
Arvind Baheti is an Executive Director in the Indirect Tax and Employment, Labour and Benefits (ELB) Practice group in the Kolkata office.
