Slew of conflicting rulings by AAR threatens to hassle businesses

A clutch of recent rulings — many mutually contradictory — by the benches of the Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) on the goods and services tax (GST) has raised questions on the how mature the fledgling state-wise set-up is and is threatening to inflate the tax and compliance costs of a cross-section of Indian industry. The latest in the series of such odd AAR orders is one by its Karnataka benc…