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AGENDA.

PAGE
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Coverage 05

2
Search Engine 13

3
GST Rates (With Rate Finder Tool) 19

4
Research Box 24

5
Top Stories 28

6
Mobile Application and Add-on Features 31

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 MENU

01. COVERAGE
GST.TAXMANN.COM – TOTAL COVERAGE.

Case Circulars &

Acts Rules Forms
Laws Notifications

All About Articles &

GST Tariff Your Queries Tools
GST Commentaries

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GST.TAXMANN.COM – CASE LAWS (Database).
» gst.taxmann.com has a database of more than 13,000 customized Judgments (Approx. 40,000
Judgments will be covered shortly)
» All judgments in Excise, Service-tax and VAT have been wisely mapped with relevant Section
and subject of GST
» Easy to search the relevant cases on GST on basis of:
» Classification of Goods
o Classifications of Services
o Subjects
o Section No. of GST Acts.
» gst.taxmann.com covers almost all cases reported in the leading journals

GST ELT STR

STC VST GSTR

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GST.TAXMANN.COM – CASE LAWS (Search).

Courts and
Benches

Every case law Appeal Section and

Number Rule
has been tagged
These meta tags
with more than
can be used
10 meta tags for Meta tags
independently or
quick and pin-
in conjunction
pointed results Name of
Parties
In Favour of with other inputs
for better
accuracy
Date of
Decision

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GST.TAXMANN.COM – CASE LAWS (Integration).
‘See More’ Feature
Every case law comes with a unique
tool, i.e., ‘See More’ about this case
which helps you to identify the:

» Cases referred to, i.e., the other cases

referred to in the given case

» Forward case references, i.e., the cases

in which the given case is referred to

» Cases on this section, i.e., the other

cases pertaining to the same sections
to which the given case relates to

» Sections involved, i.e., the sections

which are relevant in the given case

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GST.TAXMANN.COM – CASE LAWS (Integration).
List of Circulars and Notifications referred to in a Case Law

» See the list of all cases which refer to a

particular circular or notification

» Click on the link, a pop-up window

displays the link to read the relevant
circular or notification and also the
list of other cases that refer to a
particular statute

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GST.TAXMANN.COM – ACTS/RULES.
» An updated database of Central, States, UT and
Integrated GST Acts, Rules and Forms

» Complete database of Circulars, Notifications and

other Statutes on GST

» Instantly get the list of relevant Section or Rule

just by typing the Section or Rule number in the
search box

» Dual filters to quickly change the view of Acts

from ‘Section Wise’ to ‘Chapter Wise’ in just one
click

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GST.TAXMANN.COM –ARTICLES & COMMENTARIES.
» Collection of articles on all
critical and burning topics

» Articles written by renowned

authors and leading experts in
the field of GST

» Articles can be filtered on the

basis of Subjects, Sections,
Author’s name and Citation.

» Complete Commentary on GST

by Mr. V.S. Datey

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02. SEARCH ENGINE

SEARCH ENGINE.

» Robust in-built search engine to ensure a

complete and quality research

» It works on best ‘algorithms’ and ‘set of

instructions’ of popular search engines

» Taxmann’s editorial team has minutely

and carefully scrutinized the nature of
documents to create a search engine that
takes care of most of your research needs

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SEARCH ENGINE – KEY HIGHLIGHTS.
» Search habits of Corporate Professionals differ from other professionals, on search engines like
Google or Bing. That is why, while developing the search engine, we kept in view the search
habits of Corporate Professionals

» Taxmann’s search engine works individually across all the modules (GST, Indirect-Tax,
Corporate Laws, etc.) simultaneously

» With expansion of query, users can reduce the number of documents fetched by search engine,
i.e., search within search. This feature filters down the results to the desired level with an
expansion of query

» Search query within double quotes will fetch you a document that would include the exact
phrase only

» It gives suggestions on every spelling error

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SEARCH ENGINE - TRIGGERS OR KEYWORDS.
» Besides usual features of searching for text, Taxmann’s Search Engine recognizes some known
keywords that work as triggers

» ‘Trigger words’ stimulate ranking of relevant documents and can filter them down to specific
categories

» A Few examples of triggers

Case Laws Acts Rules

Circulars Notifications Forms

Articles

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THREE COLUMN DISPLAY (SINGLE VIEW).
Research Result Read

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THREE COLUMN DISPLAY (SINGLE VIEW).
» This new structure facilitates easy and fast collation of data for a thorough research

» Three columns come with three R’s – Research, Result and Reading

» Multiple selections of options are allowed in almost all fields

» Multiple documents can be opened simultaneously in multiple tabs on the same page without
refreshing it

» Multiple selection gives facility to select more than one attribute at a time to filter best possible
results

» It returns precise results with minimum efforts. For e.g. search cases for ‘Advertisement
Services’ by ‘High Court’ and so on & so forth

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 MENU

03. GST RATES

(With Rate Finder Tool)
GST RATES.
GST Tariff

§ Up to date GST Tariffs for all Goods and Services

§ GST Rates mapped with almost all HSN and SAC Codes

§ Access legislative history of all changes in GST Tariffs

§ Information on applicable notifications and clarifications provided in each Chapter

§ List of all cases dealing with classification of goods provided at the end of each
Chapter

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GST TARIFF.

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GST RATES.
Rate Finder Tool

§ GST Rate Finder is a matchless blend of Editorial Work and Taxmann’s Search Engine

§ It boosts the most relevant results and display them on top

§ This unique tool gives us the flexibility to search with text or number or GST rate or a
combination of any sort or all of them

§ It suggests the correct words in case of spelling errors

§ The tool is supported with pre-defined categories to help those who wish to analyze
the entire Chapter pertaining to any particular goods or services.

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RATE FINDER.

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04. RESEARCH BOX

RESEARCH BOX UTILITY.

With this tool you can Save all your

‘Research Box’ utility facilitates easier and
research work at one place with an option
efficient research work by tax professionals
to Print & Share it

It’s a ‘File & Folder’ utility where you can make It automatically creates the sub-folders to
folders and organize your research work at one categorize the documents into Case-Laws,
place Articles, Acts & Rules, Circulars, etc.

It comes with several useful features, inter-alia,

marking a document as Favourite, placing
Bookmarks or Sticky Notes in a document, etc.

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RESEARCH BOX AND DROPBOX INTEGRATION.

Research Box can be

seamlessly synchronized with
your Dropbox account, to
make your research work
available on your smart
phone and computers on
other locations

This feature ensures

that you have an
access to your
research work
anywhere, anytime
and on any device

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RESEARCH BOX.

– Sticky Notes can be written on any document on Taxmann.com for

future references

– Sticky Notes allow you to write your notes anywhere on the document

Sticky Notes
– A panel shall display all your notes in the document

– A bookmark is a user-made link which allows us to navigate through the

document at our convenience

– All documents with bookmarks can be accessed in one go from the Research
Bookmarks Box

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05. TOP STORIES

TOP STORIES.

Top Featured
Stories Stories

Related
Archive
Top Stories Most Editor’s
Stories on taxmann.com Viewed Pick

Category –
News
wise Stories

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TAXMANN ONLINE UPDATES.
Taxmann’s Top Stories provide all the important statutory updates and
Top Stories
case laws in the field of GST

Related Stories Top Story is supported by other Related Story reported in the past

Even if one misses on a top story, ‘Archive’ button can be used to access
Archive the posts published over past 3 months

All relevant news from prominent news-papers are reported

News

Timely and detailed Analysis of important statutory updates and case

Featured Stories laws, that you can’t afford to miss

List of most popular items showing what is in vogue amongst the

Most Viewed readers and what is bucking the trend

Our editorial board recommends important and crucial case laws,

Editors Pick
statutes, and expert opinions which one must go through

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06. MOBILE APPLICATION

AND
ADD-ON FEATURES
TAXMANN.COM - MOBILE APPLICATION.
Real Time Updates

Get real-time updates about every update on tax

and corporate laws

Summary of every story

Comprehensive short summary of all stories to

keep yourself updated in a short time

Choose what you want to read

You can filter all top stories as per your choice

into Income-tax, GST, International Tax,
Corporate Laws, Accounts & Audit

Taxmann Search Engine

Search any document from taxmann.com in the

app itself using the same Taxmann’s search engine

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 e-NEWSLETTERS.
Daily Tax Digest
• A Daily Bulletin for all Case Laws and Statutory
Updates reported at www.taxmann.com
• In Just 5 minutes, one can read all the updates on:
Taxmann Daily - Income-tax
- GST
• A Daily email service to provide the
- International Tax
analysis of most important story of the day
- Companies Act
• Around 300 bulletins are issued in a year
- SEBI & Banking Laws
- Accounts & Audit
- Indirect Taxes
• A section-wise digest is provided to help one in
GST Daily keeping himself abreast with all such updates
• A Daily email service to provide the • Around 300 bulletins are issued in a year
analysis of most important story of the day
• Provides information about all updates in
GST

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OTHER FEATURES.

Print any document

Print

Option to print only Digest or an Order or

a full document of a Case Law
Other Features

E-mail Option to E-Mail documents

Download documents in
Download MS-Word format (*.rtf)

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