Avanti Patel Vs Starbucks Coffee
Date: October 28, 2020
Court: National Anti-Profiteering Authority
Type: Anti-Profiteering
Judge(s)/Member(s): B N Sharma, J C Chauhan, Amand Shah
Subject Matter
Starbucks guilty of profiteering for denying the benefit of rate reduction
Summary
The Respondent has denied benefit of rate reduction to the buyers of his products in contravention of the provisions of Section 171 (1) of the CGST Act, 2017 and he has thus resorted to profiteering. Hence, he has committed an offence for violation o…
The brief facts of the present case are that under Rule 128 (1) of the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Rules, 2017 , an application was filed by the Applicant No. 1 against the Respondent before the Standing Committee on Anti-profiteering alleging that the Respondent had not passed on the benefit of reduction in the GST rate on restaurant service when it was reduced from 18% to 5% w.e.f. 15.…