- Chapter I – Preliminary – Sections 1 and 2
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Chapter II – Administration – Section 3 to 6
- Chapter III – Levy and Collection of Tax – Section 7 to 11
- Section 7 – Scope of Supply
- Section 8 – Composite and Mixed Supplies
- Section 9 – Levy and Collection
- Section 10 – Composition Levy
- Section 11 – Power to Grant Exemption
- Chapter IV – Time and Value of Supply – Section 12 to 15
- Section 12 – Time of Supply of Goods
- Section 13 – Time of Supply of Services
- Section 14 – Change in Rate of Tax in respect of goods or services
- Section 15 – Value of Taxable Supply
- Chapter V – Input Tax Credit – Section 16 to 21
- Section 16 – Eligibility and Conditions for taking Input Tax Credit
- Section 17 – Apportionment of Credit and Blocked Credits
- Section 18 – Availability of Credit in Special Circumstances
- Section 19 – ITC in respect of Input and Capital goods sent for Job Work
- Section 20 – Distribution of Credit by an Input Service Distributor – ISD
- Section 21 – Manner of recovery of credit distributed in excess
- Chapter VI – Registration – Section 22 to 30
- Section 22 – Persons liable for Registration
- Section 23 – Persons not liable for Registration
- Section 24 – Compulsory Registration in certain cases
- Section 25 – Procedure for Registration
- Section 26 – Deemed Registration
- Section 27 – Provisions relating to Casual Taxable Person and Non-Resident Taxable Person
- Section 28 – Amendment of Registration
- Section 29 – Cancellation or Suspension of Registration
- Section 30 – Revocation of Cancellation of Registration
- Chapter VII – Tax Invoice, Credit and Debit Notes – Section 31 to 34
- Section 31 – Tax Invoice
- Section 31A – Power to Prescribe Digital Payment to the Recipient
- Section 32 – Prohibition of Unauthorized Collection of Tax
- Section 33 – Amount of Tax to be Indicated in Tax Invoice and other documents
- Section 34 -Credit and Debit Notes
- Chapter VIII – Accounts and Records – Sections 35 and 36
- Section 35 – Accounts and other records
- Sectio 36 – Period of Retention of Accounts
- Chapter IX – Returns – Section 37 to 48
- Section 37 – Furnishing details of Outward Supplies
- Section 38 – Communication of Details of Inward Supplies and Input Tax Credit
- Section 39 – Furnishing of Returns
- Section 40 – First Return
- Section 41 – Availment of Input Tax Credit
- Section 42 – Omitted w.e.f. 01.10.2022 (Matching, Reversal and Reclaim of ITC)
- Section 43 – Omitted w.e.f. 01.10.2022 (Matching, Reversal and Reclaim of reduction in output tax liability)
- Section 43A – Omitted w.e.f. 01.10.2022 (Procedure for furnishing return and availing ITC)
- Section 44 – Annual Return
- Section 45 – Final Return
- Section 46 – Notice to Return Defaulters
- Section 47 – Levy of Late Fee
- Section 48 – Goods and Services Tax Practitioners
- Chapter X – Payment of Tax – Section 49 to 53A
- Section 49 – Payment of Tax, Interest, Penalty and other amounts
- Section 49A – Utilization of ITC subject to certain conditions
- Section 49B – Order of utilization of ITC
- Section 50 – Interest on delayed payment of tax
- Section 51 – Tax Deduction at Source
- Section 52 – Tax Collection at Source
- Section 53 – Transfer of ITC
- Section 53A – Transfer of certain amounts
- Chapter XI – Refunds – Section 54 to 58
- Section 54 – Refund of Tax
- Section 55 – Refund in certain cases
- Section 56 – Interest on Delayed Refunds
- Section 57 – Consumer Welfare Fund
- Section 58 – Utilization of Fund
- Chapter XII – Assessment – Section 59 to 64
- Section 59 – Self-Assessment
- Section 60 – Provisional Assessment
- Section 61 – Scrutiny of Returns
- Section 62 – Assessment of non-filers of returns
- Section 63 – Assessment of un-registered persons
- Section 64 – Summary assessment
- Chapter XIII – Audit – Section 65 and 66
- Section 65 – Audit by Tax Authorities
- Section 66 – Special Audit
- Chapter XIV – Inspection, Search, Seizure and Arrest – Section 67 to 72
- Section 67 – Inspection, Search and Seizure
- Section 68 – Inspection of Goods in movement
- Section 69 – Power to Arrest
- Section 70 – Power to summon persons
- Section 71 – Access to Business Premises
- Section 72 – Officers to Assist Proper Officers
- Chapter XV – Demands and Recovery – Section 73 to 84
- Section 73 – Determination of Tax not paid/short paid/erroneously refunded/ITC wrongly availed or utilized other than by way of Fraud, etc.
- Section 74 – Determination of Tax not paid/short paid/erroneously refunded/ITC wrongly availed or utilized by way of Fraud, etc.
- Section 75 – General Provisions relating to Determination of Tax
- Section 76 – Tax Collected but not paid to the Government
- Section 77 – Tax Wrongfully collected and paid to Central/State Government
- Section 78 – Initiation of Recovery Proceedings
- Section 79 – Recovery of Tax
- Section 80 – Payment of Tax and other amount in Instalments
- Section 81 – Transfer of Property to be void in certain cases
- Section 82 – Tax to be First Charge on Property
- Section 83 – Provisional Attachment
- Section 84 – Continuation and Validation of Certain recovery proceedings
- Chapter XVI – Liability to pay in Certain Cases – Section 85 to 94
- Section 85 – Liability in case of Transfer of Business
- Section 86 – Liability in case of Agent and Principal
- Section 87 – Liability in case of Amalgamation/Merger of Companies
- Section 88 – Liability in case of Company in Liquidation
- Section 89 – Liability of Directors of Private Company
- Section 90 – Liability of Partners of Firm
- Section 91 – Liability of Guardians, Trustees, etc.
- Section 92 – Liability of Court of Wards, etc.
- Section 93 – Special Provisions – Death of a Person, Partitioning of HUF, Dissolution of Firm, etc.
- Section 94 – Liability in other cases – Discontinuance or Reconstitution of Firm, Association of Persons or HUF
- Chapter XVII – Advance Ruling – Section 95 to 106
- Section 95 – Definitions
- Section 96 – Authority for Advance Ruling
- Section 97 – Application for Advance Ruling
- Section 98 – Procedure on receipt of Application
- Section 99 – Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling
- Section 100 – Appeal to Appellate Authority
- Section 101 – Orders of Appellate Authority
- Section 101A – Constitution of National Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling
- Section 101B – Appeal to National Appellate Authority
- Section 101C – Order of National Appellate Authority
- Section 102 – Rectification of Advance Ruling
- Section 103 – Applicability of Advance Ruling
- Section 104 – Advance Ruling to be void in certain circumstances
- Section 105 – Powers of Authority, Appellate Authority and National Appellate Authority
- Section 106 – Orders of Authority, Appellate Authority and National Appellate Authority
- Chapter XVIII – Appeals and Revision – Section 107 to 121
- Section 107 – Appeals to Appellate Authority
- Section 108 – Powers of Revisional Authority
- Section 109 – Constitution of Appellate Tribunal and Benches Thereof
- Section 110 – President and Members of Tribunal, their qualification, appointment, conditions of service, etc.
- Section 111 – Procedure before Appellate Tribunal
- Section 112 – Appeals to Appellate Tribunal
- Section 113 – Orders of Appellate Tribunal
- Section 114 – Financial and Administrative powers of President
- Section 115 – Interest on refund of amount paid for admission of appeal
- Section 116 – Appearance by authorized representative
- Section 117 – Appeal to High Court
- Section 118 – Appeal to Supreme Court
- Section 119 – Sums to be paid not withstanding appeal, etc.
- Section 120 – Appeal not to be filed in certain cases
- Section 121 – Non-Appealable decisions and Orders
- Chapter XIX – Offences and Penalties – Section 122 to 138
- Section 122 – Penalty for Certain Offences
- Section 123 – Penalty for failure to furnish information return
- Section 124 – Fine for failure to furnish Statistics
- Section 125 – General Penalty
- Section 126 – General Disciplines relating to penalty
- Section 127 – Power to Impose Penalty in certain cases
- Section 128 – Power to Waive penalty or fees or both
- Section 129 – Detention, Seizure and Release of Goods and Conveyances in Transit
- Section 130 -Confiscation of goods or conveyances and levy of penalty
- Section 131 – Confiscation or Penalty not to interfere with other punishments
- Section 132 – Punishment for certain offences
- Section 133 – Liability of certain officers and other persons
- Section 134 – Cognizance of Offences
- Section 135 – Presumption of Culpable Mental State
- Section 136 – Relevancy of Statements under certain circumstances
- Section 137 – Offences by Companies
- Section 138 – Compounding of Offences
- Chapter XX – Transitional Provisions – Section 139 to 142
- Section 139 – Migration of Existing Tax Payers
- Section 140 – Transitional Arrangements for ITC
- Section 141 – Transitional provisions relating to Job Work
- Section 142 – Miscellaneous Transitional Provisions
- Chapter XXI – Miscellaneous – Section 14
- Section 143 – Job Work Procedure
- Section 144 – Presumption as to documents in certain cases
- Section 145 – Admissibility of Micro-films, Fax copies of documents and Computer printouts as documents and evidence
- Section 146 – Common Portal
- Section 147 – Deemed Exports
- Section 148 – Special procedure for certain processes
- Section 149 – Goods and Services Tax Compliance Rating
- Section 150 – Obligation to Furnish Information Return
- Section 151 – Power to call for information
- Section 152 – Bar on disclosure of information
- Section 153 – Taking Assistance from an Expert
- Section 154 – Power to take Samples
- Section 155 – Burden of Proof
- Section 156 – Persons deemed to be Public Servants
- Section 157 – Protection of action taken under this Act
- Section 158 – Disclosure of information by a Public Servant
- Section 158A – Consent based sharing of information by a taxable person
- Section 159 – Publication of information in respect of persons in certain cases
- Section 160 – Assessment proceedings, etc. not to be invalid on certain grounds
- Section 161 – Rectification of errors apparent on the face of record
- Section 162 – Bar on Jurisdiction of Civil Courts
- Section 163 – Levy of Fee
- Section 164 – Power of Government to make Rules
- Section 165 – Power to make Regulations