REGARDING ALL INDIA INDUSTRAIL DRAWBACK FOR EXPORT

REGARDING ALL INDIA INDUSTRAIL DRAWBACK FOR EXPORT
Query (Issue) Started By: – AKBAR BASHA Dated:- 20-5-2017 Goods and Services Tax – GST
GST
SIR GOODMORNING,
PLEASE NOTE WE ARE FOOTWEAR MANUFACTURING AT PRESENT WE AVAIL 9.5% PERCENTAGE OF DRAWBACK ON OUR EXPORT PROVIDED WE DONOT AVAIL THE INPUT CREDIT OF EXCISE AND SERVICE TAX BUT WE AVAIL THE CREDIT OF VAT AND GET REFUND .NOW ALL THIS THREE EXCISE ,SERVICE TAX AND SALES TAX ARE MERGED INTO GST, HOW WILL THE DRAWBACK WILL BE ISSUED ?

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Rate fitments on Day 1 of 14th GST Council Meeting

Rate fitments on Day 1 of 14th GST Council Meeting
By: – Bimal jain
Goods and Services Tax – GST
Dated:- 20-5-2017

Dear Professional Colleague,
Rate fitments on Day 1 of 14th GST Council Meeting
In Srinagar, the all-powerful GST Council headed by the Hon'ble Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley met for the fourteenth time to finalise the nuts and bolts of the new GST tax framework. This meeting is paving the way for India to join select League of Nations with a GST rollout from July 1, 2017 as envisaged.
With the conclusion of the day one of the 14th GST Council meet on May 18, 2017, the gist of the key takeaways from the meeting of the GST Council are as under:
* Approval to 7 Draft GST Rules & 2 Draft GST Rules sent for legal vetting:
The GST Council has given its approval to 7 sets of Draft Rules dealing with Registration, Payment, Refund, Invoice, Debit & Credit Note, Input Tax Credit, Valuation and Composition.
Two Draft GST Rules on Transition provisions and

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items
Applicable Tax Rate slab
7%
Exempt
14%
5%
17%
12%
43%
18%
19%
28%
Glimpse of GST Rate Schedule for Goods is given as under for easy digests:
* Nil Rate (0%): No tax will be imposed on items like fresh meat, fish chicken, eggs, milk, butter milk, curd, natural honey, fresh fruits and vegetables, flour, besan, bread, prasad, salt, bindi, Sindoor, stamps, judicial papers, printed books, newspapers, bangles, handloom etc.
* 5% Rate: Items such as fish fillet, cream, skimmed milk powder, branded paneer, frozen vegetables, coffee (except instant coffee), tea, spices, pizza bread, rusk, sabudana, kerosene, coal (tax under the existing system is 11.69%), medicines, stent, lifeboats will attract tax of 5%.
* 12% Rate: Frozen meat products , butter, cheese, ghee, dry fruits in packaged form, animal fat, sausage, fruit juices, Bhujia, namkeen, Ayurvedic medicines, tooth powder, agarbatti, colouring books, picture books, umbrella, sewing machine, and cellphones will be taxa

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to rates of GST Compensation Cess for demerit & luxury items:
The GST Council has broadly approved the rates of GST Compensation Cess to be levied on certain goods such as Pan Masala, Aerated water, Tobacco and Tobacco Product, Cigarettes, Motor Vehicles etc. GST Compensation Cess Rates for different supplies has been uploaded immediately after the GST Council's decision and however, it is also subject to further vetting during which the list may undergo some changes.
A cess of 204% has been proposed for pan masala containing tobacco 'Gutkha', cigarettes not exceeding 65 mm will attract a cess of 5% plus ₹ 1,591 per thousand.
Further, small petrol cars with an engine capacity of less than 1200 cc will attract 1% cess, and those with a diesel engine capacity of less than 1500 cc will attract 3% cess. Large cars with an engine capacity greater than 1500 cc, and SUVs with a length of more than 4 m and engine capacity greater than 1500 cc, will attract a cess of 15%. Motorcycles w

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at a decision on the tax rate for remaining 6 categories of items along with tax fitment for categories of services will be taken up for discussion today and if not able to conclude today, the GST Council will meet once again in order to clear all the cloud.
Our Comments:
From the recent series of events that out of 9 Draft Rules, 7 Draft Rules were finalized & remaining 2 sets of Draft Rules sent for legal vetting and nod to tax fitment of majority of items, it seems that the Government is very keen to implement the tax reform from July 1, 2017. As an attempt to keep check on inflation, the tax on goods falling in Consumer Price Index basket like cereals has been kept on lower side. Nonetheless, the rates to be decided for services sector, which contributes majorly to the GDP of the Country, will play a pivotal role in determining overall impact on inflation.
Source: Economic Times, Indian Express etc., and video capturing the press conference of Mr. Arun Jaitley after 14th GST Co

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Heavy bikes, yachts, private jets to attract 31 pc GST

Heavy bikes, yachts, private jets to attract 31 pc GST
GST
Dated:- 19-5-2017

Srinagar, May 19 (PTI) Motorcycles of more than 350 cc engine capacity will attract a total of 31 per cent tax under the GST regime, same as the tax incidence on private aircraft and luxury yachts.
According to the rate structure finalised by the GST Council here, all cars, buses, trucks and motorcycles including moped as well as personal aircraft and luxury yachts will attract a peak Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 28 per cent.
All classes of cars and SUVs as well as motorcycles of more than 350 cc engine capacity will also attract an additional cess.
The cess for motorcycles with more than 350 cc engine has been kept at 3 per cent, taking the tot

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rollout of the GST.
The Centre and states have agreed to impose cess on demerit and luxury goods under the GST regime, over and above the peak tax rate of 28 per cent.
On tobacco, the cess will vary from 71-204 per cent.
Also, scented zarda and filter khaini will attract 160 per cent cess, while for pan masala gutkha it would be 204 per cent.
Filter and non-filter cigarettes not exceeding 65 mm will attract cess of 5 per cent plus ₹ 1,591 per 1,000 sticks.
Non-filter cigarettes exceeding 65 mm but not exceeding 70 mm will attract cess of 5 per cent plus ₹ 2,876, while that for filter cigarettes the levy is 5 per cent plus ₹ 2,126 per thousand sticks.
For cigars, a hefty levy of 21 per cent or ₹ 4,170 per 1,000

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Sensex rises on GST push; makes 2nd weekly gain

Sensex rises on GST push; makes 2nd weekly gain
GST
Dated:- 19-5-2017

Mumbai, May 19 (PTI) Benchmark Sensex gained 30 points to end at 30,464 today as FMCG stocks rallied after the GST Council finalised tax rates for bulk of the goods.
Nifty, however, finished a shade lower.
The BSE Sensex resumed higher and hit its all-time high of 30,712.35 (intra-day), the fourth in five sessions, but later eased to a low of 30,338.52 before settling 30.13 points, or 0.10 per cent higher at 30

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Rate of tax

Rate of tax
Query (Issue) Started By: – Aitha RajyaLakshmi Dated:- 19-5-2017 Last Reply Date:- 20-5-2017 Goods and Services Tax – GST
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Sir,
Is there any link or website

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For the purposes of this Chapter:-

For the purposes of this Chapter:-
Explanation
Bill
Determination of Value of Supply
GST – Determination of Value of Supply – Final Draft Rules 18-5-2017
Explanation.- For the purposes of this Chapter,-
(a) “open market value” of a supply of goods or services or both means the full value in money, excluding the integrated tax, central tax, State tax, Union territory tax and the cess payable by a person in a transaction, where the supplier and the recipient of the supply are no

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Value of supply inclusive of integrated tax, central tax, State tax, Union territory tax

Value of supply inclusive of integrated tax, central tax, State tax, Union territory tax
Rule 9
Bill
Determination of Value of Supply
GST – Determination of Value of Supply – Final Draft Rules 18-5-2017
9. Value of supply inclusive of integrated tax, central tax, State tax, Union territory tax
Where the value of supply is inclusive of integrated tax or, as the case may be, central tax, State tax, Union territory tax, the tax amount shall be determined in the following manner,

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The 14th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting chaired by the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley approves GST rates for goods and GST Compensation Cess

The 14th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting chaired by the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley approves GST rates for goods and GST Compensation Cess
GST
Dated:- 19-5-2017

The 14th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council Meeting, chaired by the Union Minister of Finance Shri Arun Jaitley, was held at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir yesterday. The fitment of rates of goods were discussed during the Council meeting. The Council has broadly approved the GST rates for goods at

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Transportation of goods without issue of invoice

Transportation of goods without issue of invoice
Rule 10
Bill
TAX INVOICE, CREDIT AND DEBIT NOTES
GST – Tax Invoice, Credit And Debit Notes – Final Draft Rules 18-5-2017
10. Transportation of goods without issue of invoice
(1) For the purposes of
(a) supply of liquid gas where the quantity at the time of removal from the place of business of the supplier is not known,
(b) transportation of goods for job work,
(c) transportation of goods for reasons other than by way of supply, or
(d) such other supplies as may be notified by the Board,
the consigner may issue a delivery challan, serially numbered not exceeding sixteen characters, in one or multiple series, in lieu of invoice at the time of removal of goods for transp

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arked as ORIGINAL FOR CONSIGNEE;
(b) the duplicate copy being marked as DUPLICATE FOR TRANSPORTER; and
(c) the triplicate copy being marked as TRIPLICATE FOR CONSIGNOR.
(3) Where goods are being transported on a delivery challan in lieu of invoice, the same shall be declared in FORM [WAYBILL].
(4) Where the goods being transported are for the purpose of supply to the recipient but the tax invoice could not be issued at the time of removal of goods for the purpose of supply, the supplier shall issue a tax invoice after delivery of goods.
(5) Where the goods are being transported in a semi knocked down or completely knocked down condition,
(a) the supplier shall issue the complete invoice before dispatch of the first consignment;
(b) (

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Tax invoice in special cases

Tax invoice in special cases
Rule 9
Bill
TAX INVOICE, CREDIT AND DEBIT NOTES
GST – Tax Invoice, Credit And Debit Notes – Final Draft Rules 18-5-2017
9. Tax invoice in special cases
(1) An ISD invoice or, as the case may be, an ISD credit note issued by an Input Service Distributor shall contain the following details:-
(a) name, address and GSTIN of the Input Service Distributor;
(b) a consecutive serial number not exceeding sixteen characters, in one or multiple series, containing alphabets or numerals or special characters hyphen or dash and slash symbolised as , “-“, “/”, respectively, and any combination thereof, unique for a financial year;
(c) date of its issue;
(d) name, address and GSTIN of the recipient to who

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lled, whether issued or made available, physically or electronically whether or not serially numbered, and whether or not containing the address of the recipient of taxable service but containing other information as prescribed under rule 1.
(3) Where the supplier of taxable service is a goods transport agency supplying services in relation to transportation of goods by road in a goods carriage, the said supplier shall issue a tax invoice or any other document in lieu thereof, by whatever name called, containing the gross weight of the consignment, name of the consignor and the consignee, registration number of goods carriage in which the goods are transported, details of goods transported, details of place of origin and destination, GSTIN

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Consumers to pay less for common items under GST: Paswan

Consumers to pay less for common items under GST: Paswan
GST
Dated:- 19-5-2017

New Delhi, May 18 (PTI) Consumers stand to gain from the GST rates announced for daily consumption items which will also help keeping a check on prices, Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said today.
FMCG firms Dabur and Emami welcomed the rates on commonly used consumer items stating it would be beneficial but said more clarity is needed to understand overall impact.
"The move will benefit consumers at large as they will pay less. Free movement of goods will ensure easy availability and keep prices under check," Paswan told PTI.
On the first day of a two-day meeting of the GST Council, headed by Union Finance Minister Arun Jait

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GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS

GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
News and Press Release
Dated:- 19-5-2017

GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
The fitment of rates of goods were discussed today during the 14th GST Council meeting held at Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. The Council has broadly approved the GST rates for goods at nil rate, 5%, 12%, 18% and 28% to be levied on certain goods.
The information was uploaded immediately after the GST Council's decision as on 18-5-2017 and it will be subject to further vetting during which the list may undergo some changes.
GST rates for certain goods like textile, footwear, biris, precious metals, etc. are yet to be decided by the GST Council. The footnote below the table gives the list of such goods.
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GST Cess Rates – 18-5-2017
Addendum to GST rate schedule – 22-5-2017
GST Rate Schedule on Goods – 3-6-2017
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e)
2401
71%
bearing a brand name
6.
Unmanufactured tobacco (with lime tube)
2401
65%
bearing a brand name
7.
Tobacco refuse, bearing a brand name
2401 30 00
61%
8.
Chewing tobacco (without lime tube)
2403 99 10
160%
9.
Chewing tobacco (with lime tube)
2403 99 10
142%
10. Filter khaini
2403 99 10
160%
11. Jarda scented tobacco
2403 99 30
160%
12. Pan masala containing tobacco ‘Gutkha'
2403 99 90
204%
Cigarettes
13. Non-filter
14.
2402 20 10
5%+ Rs.1591 per
Not exceeding 65 mm
15.
2402 20 20
Exceeding 65 mm but not 70 mm
thousand
5%+ Rs.2876 per
thousand
16.
Filter
17.
Not exceeding 65 mm
18.
Exceeding 65 mm but not 70 mm
2402 20 30
5%+ Rs.1591 per
thousand
2402 20 40
5%+ Rs.2126 per
thousand
1
S.
No.
GST Compensation Cess Rates for different supplies
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Description of supply
(1)
(2)
19.
Exceeding 70 mm but not 75 mm
20.
Others
Other tobacco products
21. Cigar and cheroots
22. Cigarillos
Tariff
item,
heading,
sub-

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2403 19 90
57%
tobacco,
2403 91 00
72%
bearing a brand name
33. Preparations containing chewing tobacco
2403 99 20
72%
34.
Snuff
2403 99 40
72%
35.
Preparations containing snuff
2403 99 50
72%
36.
Tobacco extracts and essence bearing a brand
2403 99 60
72%
name
2
GST Compensation Cess Rates for different supplies
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
No.
Description of supply
Tariff
item,
Rate for GST
heading,
sub-
Compensation
heading,
Chapter,
Cess
of goods or service,
as the case may be
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
37. Tobacco extracts and essence not bearing a brand
2403 99 60
65%
name
38. Cut tobacco
2403 99 70
20%
39.
All goods, other than pan masala containing
tobacco 'gutkha', bearing a brand name
2403 99 90
96%
40. All goods, other than pan masala containing
tobacco 'gutkha', not bearing a brand name
2403 99 90
89%
Others
41. Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels
manufactured from coal.
2701
Rs.400 per tonne
42. Lignite, whether or not agglom

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registered brand name [2202 90 90]”.
(ii) In 12% rate column, in the entry “Fruit pulp or fruit juice based drinks [2202
90 30]”, tariff item 2202 90 30 may be read as 2202 90 20.
2. In S.No.85, in the 28% rate column, the entry “Electrical machines and apparatus
having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
[8543]” may be omitted. “8543 Electrical machines and apparatus having individual
functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter” is already covered in
the 18% rate column.
3. In the footnote below the Table which gives the list of goods for which the GST rates
are yet to be decided by the GST Council, the following entries may be added:
(i) Cereals and flour put up in unit container and bearing a registered brand
name.
(ii) Puja samagri including havan samagri will be under Nil category. However,
the exact formulation for the same is yet to be finalised.
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No.
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seed; other
1
12%
18%
28%
S.
Chapter
No.
3.
11
(Products of milling
industry;
starches;
wheat gluten)
malt;
inulin;
For GST rates on
other goods falling
under this Chapter,
the Rate Schedule
put on website on
18.05.2017
please be seen.
4.
14
may
(Vegetable plaiting
materials; vegetable
products,
not
elsewhere specified
or included)
For GST rates on
other goods falling
under this Chapter,
the Rate Schedule
put on website on
18.05.2017
please be seen.
may
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
0%
5%
cereals such as Jawar,
Bajra, Ragi]
1. Flour [1101, 1102,
1105, 1106] Aata,
maida, besan, etc., put
up in unit container and
bearing a registered
brand name.
2
12%
18%
28%
1. 1404 Bidi wrapper
leaves
[under
reverse charge].
S.
Chapter
No.
5.
19
(Preparations
of
cereals, flour, starch
or milk; pastrycooks'
products)
For GST rates on
other goods falling
und

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g,
8.
50
(Silk)
1. Silkworm
2. Raw silk [5002]
3.
Silk waste [5003]
9.
51
(Wool, fine or coarse
animal hair; horse
5%
relation
to
manufacture of which,
none of the following
processes is ordinarily
carried on with the aid
of power, namely: –
(i) frame filling;
(ii) dipping of splints
in
the
composition for
match heads;
(iii) filling of boxes
with matches;
(iv) pasting of labels
on match boxes,
veneers
cardboards;
(v) packaging.”
or
1. Silk yarn [5004, 5005,
5006]
2. Woven fabrics of silk or
silk waste [5007] [With
no refund of ITC
accumulation]
1. Wool, not carded or 1. Garnetted stock of wool
combed [5101]
or of fine or coarse
4
18%
28%
S.
No.
Chapter
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
0%
5%
12%
hair yarn and woven 2. Fine or coarse animal
animal hair, shoddy
fabric)
hair, not carded or
combed [5102]
wool [5104]
2.
Wool and fine or coarse
3. Waste of wo

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materials)
13. 55
(Manmade
fibres)
staple
yarn, etc. [5301, 5302,
5303, 5305, 5306,
5307, 5308]
2. Fabrics of other
vegetable textile fibres,
paper yarn [5309, 5310,
5311] [With no refund
of ITC accumulation]
1. Fabrics of manmade
textile materials [5407,
5408] [With no refund
of ITC accumulation]
1. Fabrics of manmade
staple fibres [5512,
5513, 5514, 5515,
12%
18%
28%
1. Synthetic filament
yarn such as nylon,
polyester, acrylic,
etc. [5402, 5404,
5406]
2. Artificial filament
yarn such as
viscose
rayon,
Cuprammonium,
etc. [5403, 5405,
5406]
3. Sewing thread of
manmade filaments
[5401]
1. Synthetic
artificial
or
filament
tow [5501, 5502]
6
S.
Chapter
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
0%
5%
12%
5516] [With no refund
of ITC accumulation]
14. 56
(Wadding, felt and
nonwovens; special
yarns;
twine,
cordage, ropes and
cables and articles
thereof)
All good

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red
with metal; such as
Real zari thread (gold)
and silver thread,
combined with textile
thread), Imitation zari
thread.
6. 5606 Gimped yarn,
and strip and the like
of heading 5404 or
5405, gimped (other
than those of heading
5605 and
horsehair
gimped
00
8
yarn);
chenille
yarn
(including
flock
18%
28%
S.
Chapter
No.
15. 57
floor
(Carpets and other
textile
coverings)
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
0%
5%
9
12%
chenille yarn); loop
wale-yarn.
7. 5607
Twine,
not
cordage, ropes and
cables, whether or not
plaited or braided and
whether or
impregnated, coated,
covered or sheathed
with rubber or plastics.
8. 5608 Knotted netting
of twine, cordage or
rope; made up fishing
nets and other made up
nets, of textile
materials.
9. 5609 Articles of yarn,
strip or the like of
heading 5404 or 5405,
twine, cordage, rope or
cables, not elsewhere
specified or included.]

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[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
0%
5%
12%
18%
28%
Cotton Rugs
handloom.]
of
1. Embroidery or zari
articles, that is to say,-
imi, zari, kasab, saima,
All goods not specified
elsewhere
dabka, chumki, gota 1. 5801
sitara, naqsi, kora, glass
beads, badla, glzal,
[5809, 5810]
Woven pile
fabrics and chenille
fabrics, other than
11
fabrics of heading 5802
or 5806.
2. 5802
Terry
towelling and similar
woven terry fabrics,
other than narrow
fabrics of heading
5806; tufted textile
fabrics, other than
products of heading
5703.
3. 5803
Gauze,
other than narrow
fabrics of heading
5806.
4. 5804
Tulles and
other net fabrics, not
including
woven,
knitted or crocheted
fabrics; lace in the
S.
Chapter
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
0%
5%
12
12%
18%
28%
piece, in strips or in
motifs, other than
fabrics of headings
6002 to 6006.

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ewhere specified or
included; such as Zari
borders [other than
Embroidery or zari
articles, that is to say,-
imi, zari, kasab, saima,
dabka, chumki, gota
sitara, naqsi, kora,
glass beads, badla,
glzal].
10. 5810 Embroidery in
the piece, in strips or
18%
28%
S.
Chapter
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
0%
5%
12%
18%
28%
in
motifs,
17. 59
(Impregnated,
coated, covered or
laminated
fabrics;
textile
textile
articles of a kind
suitable for industrial
use)
Embroidered badges,
motifs and the like
[other than Embroidery
or zari articles, that is to
say, imi, zari, kasab,
saima, dabka, chumki,
gota sitara, naqsi, kora,
glass beads, badla,
glzal]
11. 5811 Quilted textile
products in the piece,
composed of one or
more layers of textile
materials assembled
with padding by
stitching or otherwise,
other than embroidery
of heading 5810.
All goods
1. 5901
Textile
fabric

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0%
5%
16
12%
than those of heading
5902.
7. 5907
Textile
fabrics
otherwise
impregnated, coated
covered; painted
or
canvas being theatrical
scenery, studio back-
cloths or the like.
8. 5908
Textile
wicks, woven, plaited
or knitted, for lamps,
stoves,
lighters,
candles or the like;
incandescent
gas
mantles and tubular
knitted gas mantle
fabric therefor, whether
or not impregnated.
Textile hose
9. 5909
piping and similar
textile tubing, with or
without lining, armour
or accessories of other
materials.
10. 5910 Transmission or
conveyor belts or
belting, of textile
material, whether or
18%
28%
S.
Chapter
No.
18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
0%
5%
not
12%
impregnated,
coated, covered or
laminated with plastics,
or reinforced with
metal or other material.
11.5911 Textile
products and articles,
for technical uses,
specified in Note 7 to
this Chapter;

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achinery, Straining
cloth of a kind used in
oil presses or the like,
including that of
human hair, Paper
maker's felt, woven,
Gaskets, washers,
polishing discs and
other machinery parts
of textile articles.
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18%
28%
S.
No.
Chapter
19. 61
(Articles of apparel
and
clothing
accessories, knitted
or crocheted)
20. 62
(Articles of apparel
and
accessories,
knitted or crocheted)
21. 63
(Other made up
textile articles, sets,
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
0%
clothing
not
1. Indian National Flag
worn clothing and
worn textile articles;
rags)
5%
12%
2. All goods of sale value
not exceeding Rs. 1000
per piece
3. All goods of sale value
not exceeding Rs. 1000
per piece
All goods of sale value not
exceeding Rs. 1000 per
piece
1. 6301
Blankets
and travelling rugs.
2. 6302.10 Bed linen,
Knitted or crocheted,
Toilet linen and kitchen
linen, of terry towelling
or similar

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Mosquito nets,
Cushion covers
5. 6305
12%
Counterpanes,
Napkins, Pillow case
and pillow slip, Table
cloth and table cover,
Towels, other than
terry towel, Mosquito
nets, Cushion covers
5. 6305 Sacks and
Sacks and
bags, of a kind used for
the packing of goods.
6. 6306 Tarpaulins, 6.
awnings and sunblinds;
tents; sails for boats,
sailboards or landcraft;
camping goods.
7. 6307
Other
bags, of a kind used for
the packing of goods.
6306 Tarpaulins,
awnings
and
sunblinds; tents; sails
for boats, sailboards or
landcraft; camping
goods.
made up articles, 7. 6307
including
dress
dish-
patterns; such as
Floor-cloths,
cloths, dusters and
similar cleaning cloths,
Life-jackets and Life-
belts, Sets consisting of
woven fabric and yarn,
whether or not with
accessories, for making
up into rugs, tapestries,
embroidered
table
Other
dress
made up articles,
including
patterns; such as
Floor-cloths, dish-
cloths, dusters and
similar cleaning cloths,
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6310 Used or
new rags, scrap twine,
cordage, rope and
cables and worn out
articles of twine,
cordage, rope or cables,
of textile materials.
All goods not specified
elsewhere
1. 6401 Waterproof
footwear with outer
soles and uppers of
rubber or of plastics,
the uppers of which
are neither fixed to
the sole nor
assembled by
stitching, riveting,
nailing, screwing,
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No.
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GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
0%
5%
12%
18%
plugging or similar
processes.
2. 6402
Other
footwear with outer
soles and uppers of
rubber or plastics.
3. 6403 Footwear with
soles of
outer
rubber, plastics,
leather
or
composition leather
and uppers of
leather.
4. 6404 Footwear with
outer soles of
rubber, plastics,
leather
or
composition leather
and uppers of textile
materials.
5. 6405
footwear.
6. 6406
Other
Parts of
footwear (including
uppers whether or
not attached to

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s (other than diamonds) and semi-precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience
transport.
7104 Synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted
or set; Ungraded synthetic or reconstructed precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport.
7105 Dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or semi-precious stones.
7106 Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum), unwrought or in semi – manufactured forms, or in powder form.
7107 Base metals clad with silver, not further worked than semi – manufactured.
7108 Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi – manufactured forms, or in powder form.
7109 Base metals or silver, clad with gold, not further worked than semi – manufactured.
7110 Platinum, unwrought or in semi – manufactured form, or in powder form.
7111
7112
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tes on
other goods falling
under this Chapter,
the Rate Schedule
put on website on
18.05.2017
please be seen.
may
leguminous vegetables;
machinery used in
milling industry or for
the working of cereals
or dried leguminous 2.
vegetables other than
farm type machinery
and parts thereof [8437]
cultivation; lawn or
sports-ground rollers.
[8432]
or
Harvesting or threshing
machinery, including
straw or fodder balers;
grass or hay mowers;
machines for cleaning,
sorting or grading eggs,
fruit
other
agricultural produce,
other than machinery
of heading 8437 [8433]
3. Other agricultural,
horticultural, forestry,
poultry-keeping or bee-
keeping machinery,
including germination
plant fitted with
mechanical or thermal
equipment; poultry
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28%
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[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
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No.
Chapter
0%
5%
12%
18%
28%
incubators
and
brooders [8436]
25. Any Chapter
Puja
namely

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es [sales] made by CSD or
Unit Run Canteens to final consumer.
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Document 4
ADDENDUM TO THE GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
The following amendments / additions are required to be made to the aforesaid document:
1. In Chapter 15, in the 18% rate column, the part entry from 1517 relating to edible
mixtures of vegetable fats or oils, that is “edible mixtures or preparations of vegetable
fats or vegetable oils or of fractions of different vegetable fats or vegetable oils of this
Chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading 1516 [1517]” may
be shifted to the 5% rate column [wherein all vegetable fats and vegetable oils at 5%].
[This will ensure that mixtures of two or more varieties of edible vegetable oils fall at
5%.]
2. In Chapter 29, in the 18% rate column, after the entry No 39 the following entries
shall be inserted,
(i) “40 – 2939 Alkaloids, natural or reprodu

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, in the 18% rate column, for the entry No 18 the entry “3823 Industrial
monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols” shall be
substituted. [There is typographical error in the description.]
6. In Chapter 40,
(i) in the 12% rate column, the entry “4 – Erasers [4016].” may be added.
(ii) in the 18% rate column, the entry No. 12 “Erasers [4016].” may be omitted.
[Mathematical boxes, geometry boxes and colour boxes, pencil sharpeners
(7310 or 7326) and Pencils, crayons (9609) are at 12%].
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ADDENDUM TO THE GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 3rd June, 2017]
7. In Chapter 48, in the 18% rate column, for the part entry in 4811 i.e. for the words
“[Other aseptic packaging paper and”, the words “[other than aseptic packaging
paper]” shall be substituted. [Aseptic packaging paper 4811 is covered in the 12%
rate column. There was a small mistake of missing word, th

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œEmbroidery or zari articles” in the 5%
rate column under chapter 58.]
10. In Chapter 84,-
(i) In the Nil rate column, the entry “8445 Amber charkha” may be added.
(ii) In the 5% rate column, the entry “Hand pumps and parts thereof [8413, 8414
90]” may be read as “Hand pumps and parts thereof [8413, 8413 91]”.
(iii) In the 12% rate column the entry No 1 the words “Nuclear fuel elements”
may be substituted by the words “fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated,
for nuclear reactors”
(iv) In the 18% rate column, in entry No 1 the words “fuel elements (cartridges),
non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors” may be omitted.
11. In the 18% rate column, after entry No 13 the entry “13A – machinery for cleaning or
drying bottles or other containers; machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labelling
bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles, jars,
tubes and similar containers; other

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9032 Automatic regulating or
controlling instruments and apparatus” may be inserted [this entry is not listed in the
18% rate column].
14. In Chapter 91,-
(i)
(ii)
In the 28% rate column, the entry “9110 Complete clock movements,
unassembled or partly assembled (movement sets); incomplete clock
movements, assembled; rough clock movements” may be omitted;
In the 18% rate column, the entry “5 9110 Complete clock movements,
unassembled or partly assembled (movement sets); incomplete clock
movements, assembled; rough clock movements” may be added In the 28%
rate column, the entry from 9112 relating to clock i.e. “9112 Clock cases, and
parts thereof” may be omitted;
(iii) In the 28% rate column, the entry from 9112 relating to clock i.e. “6 – 9112
Clock cases, and parts thereof” may be added;
[Clocks and their parts are at 18%].
15. In Chapter 95, in the 28% rate column the entry “9506 Articles and equipment for
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ST Council meeting held at Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. The Council has
broadly approved the GST rates for goods at nil rate, 5%, 12%, 18% and 28% to be levied on certain goods. The information is being uploaded
immediately after the GST Council's decision and it will be subject to further vetting during which the list may undergo some changes.
GST rates for certain goods like textile, footwear, biris, precious metals, etc. are yet to be decided by the GST Council. The footnote below the
table gives the list of such goods.
S.
Chapter
Nil
5%
No.
1.
1
(Live animals)
All goods other
than live horses
[0101 Live asses,
mules and hinnies
0102 Live
bovine animals
0103 Live swine
0104
Live sheep
and goats
0105 Live
poultry, that is to
say, fowls of the
species Gallus
domesticus, ducks,
geese, turkeys and
guinea fowls.
0106 Other live
animal such
as
Mammals, Birds,
Insects]
12%
Live horses [01012100,
010129]
1
18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
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he
poultry of heading
2
18%
28%
S.
No.
Chapter
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Nil
0105, fresh or
chilled.
0208 Other meat
and edible meat
offal, fresh or
chilled.
0209
Pig fat, free
of lean meat, and
poultry fat, not
rendered
or
5%
3. 3
(Fish,
crustaceans,
molluscs & other
aquatic
invertebrates)
otherwise
extracted, fresh,
chilled.
1. Fish seeds, All goods (other than
prawn/shrimp fish seeds, prawn /
seeds whether shrimp seed) processed,
cured or in frozen state
or
not
processed,
cured or in
frozen state
2. All goods,
other
processed,
than
1. 0303 Fish,
frozen, excluding
fish fillets and other
fish meat of heading
0304
cured or in 2. 0304
Fish
frozen state
fillets and other fish
meat (whether or not
1. 0301
minced), frozen.
Live fish.
3
12%
18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
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S.
Chapter
No.
live,
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Nil
fresh,
chilled; aquatic
invertebrates
other
than
crustaceans
and molluscs,
live, fresh,
chilled.
5%
12%
crustaceans
and
molluscs, frozen,
dried, salted or in
brine; flours, meals
and pellets of aquatic
invertebra other than
crustaceans, fit for
human consumption
Aquatic
6. 0308 Aquatic 6. 0308
invertebrates
invertebrates other
than crustaceans and
18%
other
than
crustaceans
molluscs, frozen,
and molluscs,
dried, salted or in
live, fresh or
brine;
smoked
chilled.
aquatic invertebrates
other
than
crustaceans
and
molluscs, whether or
not cooked before or
during the smoking
process:
flours,
meals and pellets of
aquatic invertebrates
other
crustaceans
than
and
molluscs, fit for
human
consumption.
5
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
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r
acidified milk and
cream, whether or
not concentrated or
containing added
sugar or other
sweetening matter or
milk
flavoured
containing
or
or
added
fruit, nuts or cocoa.
paneer [0406],
6
S.
Chapter
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Nil
5%
Whey,
whether or
not
concentrated
or
other than put 4. 0404
up in unit
containers and
bearing
a
registered
brand name.
7. 0409
Natural
honey, other
than put up in
unit container
and bearing a
registered
brand name.
containing added
sugar or other
sweetening matter;
products consisting
of natural milk
constituents,
whether or not
containing added
sugar or other
sweetening matter,
elsewhere
not
specified
included.
or
5. Chena or paneer put
up in unit container
and bearing a
registered brand
name [0406].
6. 0408
Birds'
eggs, not in shell,
and egg yolks, fresh,
dried, cooked by
steaming or by
boiling in water,
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18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
(other than fish),
whole and pieces
thereof,
fresh,
chilled, frozen,
salted, in brine, dried
or smoked.
4. 0505
Skins
and other parts of
birds, with their
feathers or down,
feathers and parts of
feathers (whether or
not with trimmed
edges) and down,
not further worked
than
cleaned,
disinfected or treated
for preservation;
powder and waste of
feathers or parts of
feathers
5. 0506
Bones
and horn-cores,
unworked, defatted,
simply prepared (but
not cut to shape),
treated with acid or
gelatinised; powder
9
12%
18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
and waste of these
products.
6. 0507
Ivory,
and
tortoise-shell,
whalebone
whalebone hair,
horns,
antlers,
hooves, nails, claws
and
unworked
beaks,
or
simply prepared
but not cut to shape;
powder and waste of
these products.
7. 0508
and
materials,
Cora

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S.
Chapter
Nil
5%
No.
bulbs, roots and
the like; cut
flowers
and
ornamental
foliage)
7.
7
(Edible
vegetables, roots
and tubers)
Fresh vegetables, 1. Herb,
roots and tubers
other than those in
frozen
bark, dry
plant, dry root,
commonly known as
or
jari booti and dry
preserved state
1. 0701 Potatoes,
flower;
2.
0710
Vegetables
(uncooked or cooked
fresh
chilled.
2. 0702
or
by steaming or
Tomatoes,
fresh
chilled.
or
3. 0703 Onions,
shallots, garlic,
leeks and other
alliaceous
vegetables,
fresh
or
chilled.
4. 0704
Cabbages,
cauliflowers,
kohlrabi, kale
boiling in water),
frozen.
3. 0711 Vegetables
provisionally
preserved
(for
example, by sulphur
dioxide gas, in brine,
in sulphur water or
in other preservative
solutions), but
unsuitable in that
state for immediate
consumption.
4. 0714
Manioc,
arrowroot, salep,
Jerusalem
12
12%
18%
28%
S.
No.
Chapter
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
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14 Manioc,
arrowroot,
salep,
Jerusalem
artichokes,
sweet potatoes
5%
14
12%
18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
and
roots
similar
and
8.
8
5%
12%
(Edible fruit and
nuts; peel of
citrus fruit or
melons)
tubers with
high starch or
inulin content,
fresh
or
chilled; sago
pith.
Fresh fruits other
than in frozen state
or preserved
1. 0801
Coconuts,
fresh or dried,
whether or not
shelled
or
peeled.
2. 0802 Other
nuts, fresh such
as Almonds,
Hazelnuts or
filberts
(Coryius spp.),
walnuts,
Chestnuts
(Castanea
spp.),
1. 0802
Dried
Dry fruits
areca nuts, whether
or not shelled or 2. 0801
peeled,.
All goods, other than dry
fruits, in frozen state or
preserved.
1. 0811 Fruit and
nuts, uncooked or
cooked by steaming
or boiling in water,
frozen, whether or
not containing added
sugar or other
sweetening matter.
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itrus fruit or melons
(including
watermelons),
frozen, dried or
provisionally
preserved in brine, in
sulphur water or in
other preservative
solutions.
mangoes
mangosteens, dried.
0806 Grapes,
dried, and raisins
Fruit,
6. 0813
dried, other than that
of headings 0801 to
0806; mixtures of
nuts or dried fruits of
Chapter 8.
Mandarins
(including
tangerines and
satsumas);
clementines,
wilkings
and
similar citrus
hybrids,
Grapefruit,
16
18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
including
pomelos,
Lemons
(Citrus limon,
Citrus
limonum) and
limes (Citrus
aurantifolia,
Citrus
latifolia),
fresh.
6. 0806 Grapes,
fresh
7. 0807 Melons
(including
watermelons)
and papaws
(papayas),
fresh.
8. 0808 Apples,
pears
and
quinces, fresh.
9. 0809Apricots,
cherries,
peaches
(including
nectarines),
plums
sloes, fresh.
and
5%
12%
17
17
18%
28%
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er or not
roasted
decaffeinated;
or
coffee husks and
skins;
substitutes
coffee
containing coffee in
than coffee beans not
roasted.
and
fresh
turmeric
any proportion, other
[09103010]
other than in
processed form
2.
0902
Tea,
whether or not
flavoured, other than
unprocessed green
leaves of tea.
3.
0903
4. 0904
Maté.
Pepper of
the genus Piper;
dried or crushed or
ground fruits of the
genus Capsicum or
12%
19
19
18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
5%
12%
No.
of
the
genus
Pimenta.
5. 0905
Vanilla.
6. 0906
Cinnamon and
cinnamon-tree
flowers.
7. 0907
Cloves
(whole fruit, cloves
and stems).
8. 0908
mace
Nutmeg,
cardamoms.
9. 0909
and
Seeds of
anise, badian, fennel,
coriander, cumin or
caraway; juniper
berries, other than of
seed quality.
10.0910 Ginger
other than fresh
ginger, saffron,
turmeric (curcuma)
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tered
brand name].
2. 1104
pellets, put up in unit
container
and
bearing a registered
brand name.
Cereal
grains
worked
otherwise
(for
2. 1101 Wheat or
meslin flour.
Cereal
other
3. 1102
flours
than of wheat
or meslin i.e.
maize (corn)
flour, Rye
flour, etc.
4. 1103 Cereal
example, hulled,
rolled,
flaked,
pearled, sliced or
kibbled), except rice
of heading 1006;
germ of cereals,
whole, rolled, flaked
or ground [i.e. of
oats, maize or other
cereals]
groats, meal 3. 1105
and pellets,
other
than
those put up in
unit container 4.
and bearing a
Meal,
powder, flakes,
granules and pellets
of potatoes.
1106
Meal and
powder of the dried
leguminous
22
22
18%
inulin 1. Malt, whether or not
roasted [1107]
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
of
0713
registered
brand name.
5. 1105 Flour, of
potatoes.
6. 1106 Flour, of
the
dried
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,
whether or not
broken.
whether or not
shelled or broken.
1203 Copra
Linseed,
4. 1204
whether or not
broken.
5. 1205 Rape or
colza seeds, whether
or not broken.
1206 Sunflower
seeds, whether or not
broken.
4. 1205 Rape or
colza seeds, 6.
whether or not
broken.
5. 1206
Sunflower
seeds, whether
or not broken.
6. 1207 Other oil
7. 1207
Other oil
seeds and oleaginous
fruits (i.e. Palm nuts
and kernels, cotton
seeds, Castor oil
Sesamum
seeds
oleaginous
fruits (i.e. Palm
and
seeds,
seeds,
Mustard
seeds,
Saffower
nuts
and
(Carthamus
kernels, cotton
tinctorius) seeds,
seeds, Castor
oil
Melon seeds, Poppy
seeds,
seeds,
Ajams,
Sesamum
Mango kernel, Niger
seeds, Mustard
seed,
Kokam)
seeds,
whether or
not
Saffower
broken.
(Carthamus
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12%
18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
12%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
tinctorius)
seeds, Melon
seeds, Poppy
seeds, Ajams,
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Chapter
Nil
No.
purpose, fresh
chilled
5%
or
[1211].
10. Locust beans,
seaweeds and
other algae,
sugar beet and
sugar cane,
fresh or chilled
[1212].
11. Cereal
and kernels and
other vegetable
products (including
unroasted chicory
roots of the variety
Cichorium intybus
sativum) of a kind
used primarily for
human consumption,
elsewhere
specified or included
not
straw
and husks,
[1212].
unprepared,
whether or not
chopped,
ground,
pressed or in
the form of
pellets [1213]
12. Swedes,
mangolds,
fodder roots,
hay, lucerne
(alfalfa),
clover,
sainfoin,
forage kale,
lupines,
vetches
and
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12%
18%
28%
S.
Chapter
No.
13. 13
14.
(Lac;
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Nil
similar forage
products,
whether or not
in the form of
pellets 1214].
1. Lac
and 1. 1301
gums,
Shellac [1301]
resins and other
vegetable
saps
and extracts)
5%
12%
18%

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%
18%
example, bamboos,
rattans,
reeds,
rushes, osier, raffia,
cleaned, bleached or
dyed cereal straw,
and lime bark).
2. 1404 Vegetable
products
not
elsewhere specified
or included such as
cotton
linters,
Cotton linters, Soap
nuts, Hard seeds,
pips, hulls and nuts,
of a kind used
primarily
for
carving, coconut
shell, unworked,
Rudraksha seeds;
other than Betel
leaves and Indian
katha.]
Vegetable fats and oils Animal fats and oils 1. Margarine, Linoxyn
[1507 to 1516]
2. 1507
Soya-
bean oil and its
fractions, whether or
[1501 to 1506]
1. 1501 Pig fat
(including lard) and
poultry fat, other
[solidified linseed
oil]; edible mixtures
or preparations of
animal or vegetable
fats or oils
or of
28
28%
S.
Chapter
No.
prepared edible
fats; animal or
vegetable waxes)
28%
not refined, but not
chemically
than that of heading
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Nil
3. 1508
5%
1

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ing from the
treatment of fatty
substances or animal
or vegetable waxes
[1522]
therefrom (including
lanolin).
6. 1506
Other
animal fats and oils
and their fractions,
whether or not
chemically
modified, including
blends of these oils
or fractions with oils
or
fractions
of
Palm oil
heading 1509
6. 1511
and its fractions,
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29
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[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
5%
No.
whether or not
refined, but not
chemically
12%
modified.
7. 1512 Sunflower-
seed, safflower or
cotton-seed oil and
fractions thereof,
whether or not
refined, but not
chemically
modified.
8. 1513
Coconut
(copra), palm kernel
or babassu oil and
fractions thereof,
whether or not
refined, but not
chemically
modified.
9. 1514
Rape,
colza or mustard oil
and
fractions
thereof, whether or
not refined, but not
chemically
modified.
10. 1515
Other
fixed vegetable fats
refined, but not
chemic

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ified
re-
or
elaidinised, whether
or not refined, but
not further prepared.
12. 1518 Vegetable fats
and oils and their
fractions, boiled,
oxidised,
dehydrated,
sulphurised, blown,
polymerised by heat
in vacuum or in inert
gas or otherwise
chemically
modified, excluding
those of heading
1516
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Chapter
No.
16.
16
(Preparations of
meat, of fish or of
crustaceans,
molluscs or other
aquatic
vertebrates)
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Nil
5%
12%
18%
1. Beet sugar,
sugar,
cane
khandsari
sugar [1701]
All goods
1. 1601 Sausages and
similar products, of
meat, meat offal or
blood;
food
preparations based on
these products.
2. 1602
Other
prepared or preserved
meat, meat offal or
blood.
3. 1603
Extracts
and juices of meat,
fish or crustaceans,
molluscs or other
aquatic invertebrates.
4. 1604 Prepared or
preserved fish; caviar
and caviar substitutes
prepared from fi

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d bubble
/ chewing gum)
[1704]
1. Cocoa butter, fat and
oil [1804]
2. Cocoa powder, not
containing
added
sugar or sweetening
matter [1805] and
3. Chocolates and other
food preparations
containing
[1806]
сосоа
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[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
No.
19.
19
Chapter
(Preparations of
cereals, flour,
starch or milk;
pastrycooks'
products)
Nil
5%
1. Puffed
rice, 1. Mixes and doughs
commonly
known
Muri, flattened
for the preparation of
as
bread, pastry and
other baker's wares
[1901]
Pizza bread [1905]
as
3.
Seviyan (vermicelli)
[1902]
and
or beaten rice,
commonly 2.
known
Chira, parched
rice,
commonly
known as khoi,
parched paddy
or rice coated
with sugar or
gur, commonly
known
as
Murki [1904]
2. Pappad, by
whatever name
it is known,
except when
4. Tapioca
substitutes
5.
prepared
therefor
from
starch, in the form of
flakes, grains, pearls,
sif

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goods of heading 0401
0404,
to
not
containing cocoa or
containing less than
5% by weight of cocoa
calculated on a totally
defatted basis not
elsewhere specified or
included, other than
preparations for infant
use put up for retail
sale and mixes and
doughs for the
preparation of bakers'
wares.
2. Waffles and wafers
coated with chocolate
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[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
consumption
and
pizza
bread [1905]
20.
20
(Preparations of
vegetables, fruits,
nuts or other parts
of plants)
5%
12%
18%
1. All goods of 2009 All goods not specified
i.e. fruit juices, elsewhere
vegetable juices
juices
2009 Fruit
(including grape must)
and vegetable juices,
unfermented and not
containing added spirit,
whether
not
containing added sugar
or other sweetening
matter.]
or
1. 2001 Vegetables,
2.
fruit, nuts and other
edible parts of plants,
prepared or preserved

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tening matter.
8. 2008 Fruit,
nuts and other
edible parts of
plants, otherwise
prepared
or
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
21. 21
1. Prasadam
[2106]
supplied by
religious
(Miscellaneous
edible
preparations)
places like
temples,
mosques,
churches,
gurudwaras,
dargahs, etc.
5%
12%
1. Sweetmeats [2106 1. Roasted
90]
18%
preserved, whether
or not containing
added sugar or other
sweetening matter or
spirit, not elsewhere
specified or included;
such as Ground-nuts,
Cashew nut, roasted,
salted or roasted and
salted, Other roasted
nuts and seeds,
squash of Mango,
Lemon, Orange,
Pineapple or other
fruits
28%
chicory All goods not specified 1. Extracts, essences
coffee
elsewhere
substitutes [2101 30] 1. 2101 20 Extracts,
[2101 30]
2. Roasted
3. Extracts
and
thereof
[2101 30]
essences
4. Yeasts and prepared
baking
[2102]
powders
5. Texturised ve

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;
homogenised
composite food
preparations.
4. 2105
Ice cream
and other edible ice,
whether or not
containing cocoa.
5. 2106
All kinds
of food mixes
including instant
food mixes, soft
drink concentrates,
Sharbat, Betel nut
product known as
“Supari”, Sterilized
pasteurized
or
millstone, ready to
eat packaged food
and milk containing
edible nuts with sugar
or other ingredients,
included i.e. Protein
concentrates
textured
substances,
and
protein
Sugar-
syrups containing
added flavouring or
colouring matter, not
elsewhere specified or
included; lactose
for
syrup; glucose syrup
and malto dextrine
syrup, Compound
preparations
making non-alcoholic
beverages, Food
flavouring material,
Churna for
Custard
[2106].
pan,
powder
4. Pan masala [2106 90
20]
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GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
22.
22
(Beverages, spirit
and vinegar)
1. Water [other
than aera

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weetening matter
nor flavoured.
2207 Ethyl alcohol
and other spirits,
denatured, of any
strength.
3. 2209 Vinegar and
vinegar obtained
from acetic acid.]
substitutes
for
39
S.
Chapter
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Nil
5%
23. 23
(Residues and
waste from the
food industries;
prepared animal
fodder)
brand
name
[2202 90 90]
1. Aquatic feed, All goods not specified
poultry feed & elsewhere
cattle feed,
including
grass, hay &
straw,
supplement &
husk of pulses,
concentrates &
additives,
wheat bran &
de-oiled cake
[2302, 2304,
2305, 2306,
2309]
1. 2301
Flours,
meals and pellets,
of meat or meat
offal, of fish or of
crustaceans,
molluscs or other
invertebrates, unfit
aquatic
for
human
consumption;
Residues
starch
greaves.
2. 2303
of
manufacture and
similar residues,
beet-pulp, bagasse
and other waste of
sugar manufacture,
brewing or distilling
dregs and was

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pyrites.
2503
namak [rock
salt],
kala
namak
00 10]
[2501
than
sublimed
sulphur, precipitated
sulphur and colloidal
sulphur.
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18%
28%
1. All goods not
specified elsewhere,
other than biris.
1. Sulphur recovered as
by-product
in
refining of crude oil
[2503 00 10]
1. Marble and travertine,
other than blocks
[2515 12 20, 2515 12
90]
2. Granite, other than
blocks [2516]
3. Portland
cement,
aluminous cement,
slag cement, super
sulphate cement and
similar hydraulic
cements, whether or
not coloured or in the
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
5%
No.
4. 2504
Natural
graphite.
5. 2505
Natural
sands of all kinds,
whether or not
coloured, other than
metal bearing sands
of Chapter 26.
6. 2506
Quartz
(other than natural
sands); quartzite,
whether or not
roughly trimmed or
merely cut, by
sawing or otherwise,
into blocks or slabs
of a rectangular
(including

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Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
5%
No.
13.2513
Pumice
stone; emery; natural
corundum, natural
garnet and other
natural abrasives,
whether or not heat-
treated.
14. 2514
Slate,
whether or not
roughly trimmed or
merely cut, by
sawing or otherwise,
into blocks or slabs
of a rectangular
(including square)
shape.
15. 2515 Ecaussine and
other calcareous
monumental
or
building
stone;
alabaster
[other
than
marble
Marble
and
travertine]
16. 2516
Porphyry,
basalt, sandstone
other
monumental or
and
building
stone,
12%
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18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
whether or not
roughly trimmed or
merely cut, by
sawing or otherwise,
into blocks or slabs
of a rectangular
(including square)
shape.
17.2517
Pebbles,
gravel, broken or
crushed stone, of a
kind commonly used
for
concrete
aggregates, for road
metalling or

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discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
5%
No.
before
sintering;
other
magnesium
oxide, whether or
not pure.
21.2520 Gypsum;
anhydrite; plasters
(consisting
of
calcined gypsum or
calcium sulphate)
whether or not
coloured, with or
without
small
quantities
of
accelerators
or
22.2521
Limestone
other
calcareous
retarders.
flux; limestone and
stone, of a kind used
for the manufacture
of lime or cement.
23.2522 Quicklime,
slaked lime and
hydraulic lime, other
than calcium oxide
and hydroxide of
heading 2825.
24. 2524 Asbestos.
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12%
18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
5%
12%
No.
25.2525
Mica,
including splitting;
mica waste.
26.2526
Natural
steatite, whether or
not roughly trimmed
or merely cut, by
sawing or otherwise,
into blocks or slabs
of a rectangular
(including square)
shape; talc.
Natural
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sh and
residues [2619, 2620,
2621]
1. 2619 Slag, dross
(other
granulated
than
slag),
scalings and other
waste from the
manufacture of iron
or steel.
2. 2620 Slag, ash and
residues (other than
from the manufacture
of iron or steel)
containing metals,
arsenic or their
compounds.
3. 2621 Other slag and
including
ash,
seaweed ash (kelp);
ash and residues from
the incineration of
municipal waste.
concentrates.
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49
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
12%
18%
28%
S.
Chapter
Nil
5%
No.
6. 2606
Aluminium
ores
and
concentrates.
7. 2607
Lead
ores
and
8. 2608
9. 2609
concentrates.
and concentrates.
Zinc ores
Tin ores
and concentrates.
10.2610
Chromium
ores
and
concentrates.
11. 2611
Tungsten
ores
and
12.2612
Uranium
concentrates.
or thorium ores and
concentrates.
13. 2613 Molybdenum
ores
concentrates.
14. 2614
ores
and
Titanium
and
Niobium,
concentrates.
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ar products in
which the weight of
the
aromatic
constituents exceeds
that of the non-
aromatic
constituents, such as
Benzole (benzene),
Toluole (toluene),
Xylole
Naphthelene
(xylenes),
51
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
18%
2. 2708
28%
5. Tar distilled from
coal, from lignite or
from peat [2706]
6. Kerosene PDS
7. Liquefied Propane
and Butane mixture,
Liquefied Propane,
Liquefied Butane
and Liquefied
Petroleum Gases
(LPG) for supply to
household domestic
consumers or to
non-domestic
exempted category
(NDEC) customers
by the Indian Oil
Corporation
Limited, Hindustan
petroleum
Corporation Limited
or Bharat Petroleum
Corporation
Limited.
8. Coal gas, water gas,
producer gas and
similar gases, other
than petroleum gases
Pitch and
pitch coke, obtained
from coal tar or from
other mineral tars.
3. 2710
Petroleum
oils and oils obtained
from
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mestic
exempted category
(NDEC) customers
by the Indian Oil
Corporation Limited,
Hindustan petroleum
Corporation Limited
or Bharat Petroleum
Corporation
Limited,]
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28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
12%
18%
4. 2712
Petroleum
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jelly; paraffin wax,
micro-crystalline
petroleum wax, slack
ozokerite,
wax,
lignite wax, peat wax,
other mineral waxes,
and similar products
obtained by synthesis
or by other processes,
whether
coloured.
or
not
28%
5. 2713
Petroleum
coke, petroleum
bitumen and other
residues of petroleum
oils or of oils
obtained
from
bituminous minerals.
Bitumen
6. 2714
and asphalt, natural;
bituminous or oil
shale and tar sands;
asphaltites
asphaltic rocks.
and
7. 2715 Bituminous
mixtures based on
natural asphalt, on
natural bitumen, on
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985
6. Dicalcium phosphate
(DCP) of animal 5.
feed
grade
conforming to IS
not
specified
included).
2804
elsewhere
or
Hydrogen, rare
gases and other non-
metals.
2805 Alkali or
alkaline-earth metals;
rare-earth metals,
scandium
and
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28%
S.
No.
Chapter
Nil
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
specification
No.5470 2002
7. Steam
18%
yttrium, whether or
not intermixed or
interalloyed;
mercury.
6. 2806 Hydrogen
chloride
(hydrochloric acid);
chloro sulphuric acid.
7. 2807 Sulphuric
acid; oleum.
8. 2808
Nitric
acid; sulphonitric
acids.
9. 2809 Diphosphorus
pentaoxide;
phosphoric
polyphosphoric
acid;
acids, whether or not
chemically defined.
10. 2810
Oxides of
boron; boric acids.
11. 2811
Other
inorganic acids and
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other
inorganic
28%
oxygen compounds
of non-metals.
12.2812
Halides
and halide oxides of
non-metals.
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hydroxides;
and
commercial cobalt
oxides.
oxides.
23.2823
24. 2824
Titanium
Lead
oxides; red lead and
orange lead.
25. 2825 Hydrazine and
hydroxylamine
and
their inorganic salts;
other inorganic bases;
other metal oxides,
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
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12%
18%
28%
and
hydroxides
peroxides.
26.2826 Fluorides;
fluorosilicates,
fluoroaluminates and
other
fluorine salts.
27.2827
complex
Chlorides,
chloride oxides and
chloride hydroxides;
bromides
and
bromide oxides;
iodides and iodide
oxides.
28. 2828 Hypochlorites;
commercial calcium
hypochlorite;
chlorites;
hypobromites.
29.2829
Chlorates
and perchlorates;
bromates
and
perbromates; iodates
and periodates.
30. 2830 Sulphides;
polysulphides,
whether or not
chemically defined.
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42. 2843
Colloidal
precious metals;
inorganic or organic
compounds
of
precious metals,
whether or not
chemically defined;
amalgams of precious
metals.
43.2844 Radioactive
chemical
and
elements
radioactive
28%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
isotopes (including
the fissile or fertile
chemical elements
and isotopes) and
their compounds;
mixtures and residues
containing these
products.
44.2846 Compounds,
inorganic or organic,
of rare-earth metals,
of yttrium or of
scandium or of
mixtures of these
metals.
45.2847
Hydrogen
peroxide, whether or
not solidified with
urea.
46.2848 Phosphides,
whether or not
chemically defined,
excluding
ferrophosphorus.
47.2849
Carbides,
not
whether or
chemically defined.
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Hydrides,
nitrides,
azides,
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08 Halogenated,
sulphonated, nitrated
or
derivatives
nitrosated
of
phenols or phenol-
alcohols.
10.2909
Ethers,
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ether alcohols, ether
-phenols, ether-
alcohol-phenols,
alcohol peroxides,
ether
ketone
peroxides,
peroxides
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
(whether or not
chemically defined),
and
their
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halogenated,
sulphonated, nitrated
or
derivatives.
nitrosated
11.2910 Epoxides,
epoxyalcohols,
epoxyphenols and
epoxyethers, with a
three-membered ring,
and
halogenated,
their
sulphonated, nitrated
or
derivatives.
12. 2911
nitrosated
Acetals
and hemiacetals,
whether or not with
other
oxygen
function, and their
halogenated,
sulphonated, nitrated
or
derivatives.
13. 2912
nitrosated
Aldehydes,
whether or not with
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
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, halides,
peroxides
and
peroxyacids; their
halogenated,
sulphonated, nitrated
or
derivatives.
19. 2918
with
nitrosated
Carboxylic acids
additional
oxygen function and
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
their
18%
anhydrides,
halides, peroxides
and peroxyacids;
their halogenated,
sulphonated, nitrated
or
derivatives.
20. 2919
nitrosated
Phosphoric esters
and their salts,
including
lactophosphates;
their halogenated,
sulphonated, nitrated
or
derivatives.
21.2920
nitrosated
Esters of
other inorganic acids
of
non-metals
(excluding esters of
hydrogen halides)
and their salts; their
halogenated,
sulphonated, nitrated
or
derivatives.
22.2921
nitrosated
Amine-
function compounds.
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GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
69
69
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hether or not
chemically defined;
other heterocyclic
compounds.
36. 2935 Sulphonamides
37. 2936 Provitamins and
vitamins, natural or
reproduced
by
synthesis (including
70
28%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
natural concentrates),
derivatives thereof
used primarily as
vitamins,
and
intermixtures of the
foregoing, whether or
not in any solvent.
38.2937
Hormones,
prostaglandins,
thromboxanes and
leukotrienes, natural
or reproduced by
synthesis; derivatives
and
30.
30
(Pharmaceutical
products)
structural
analogues thereof,
including
chain
modified
polypeptides,
used
primarily
as
28%
hormones.
39. 2938
Glycosides,
natural or reproduced
by synthesis, and
their salts, ethers,
esters and other
derivatives.
1. Human Blood 1. Animal or Human All goods not specified 1. Nicotine polacrilex
and
its
Blood
[3002, 3006]
Vaccines
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prophylactic uses,
not
elsewhere
specified or included
3002 Animal
blood prepared for
therapeutic,
or
prophylactic
diagnostic
uses;
antisera and other
blood fractions and
modified
immunological
products, whether or
obtained by
not
means
of
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22
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
8. Formulations
manufactured
from the bulk
drugs specified in
List 1 of notification
No.12/2012-Central
Excise, dated the
17th March, 2012,
dated the 17th
March, 2012.
3.
12%
biotechnological
processes; toxins,
cultures of micro-
organisms
(excluding yeasts)
and similar products
3003 Medicaments
(excluding goods of
heading 30.02, 30.05
or 30.06) consisting
of two or more
constituents which
have been mixed
together
therapeutic
prophylactic
for
or
uses,
not put up in
measured doses or in
forms or packings
for retail sale,
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medical,
surgical,
dental or veterinary
purposes.
6. 3006Pharmaceutical
goods specified in
Note 4 to this
Chapter
Sterile
catgut,
sterile
materials
such as
surgical
similar
suture
(including sterile
absorbable surgical
or dental yarns)
and sterile tissue
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adhesives
surgical
closure;
laminaria
for
wound
sterile
and
sterile laminaria
tents;
sterile
absorbable surgical
or
dental
haemostatics; sterile
surgical or denatal
adhesion barriers,
whether or not
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
31. 31
32.
(Fertilisers)
32
or
(Tanning
tannins and their
dyeing extracts;
derivatives; dyes,
pigments and
other colouring
matter; paints and
varnishes; putty
and
other
mastics; inks)
1. Organic
manure, other
than put up in
unit containers
and bearing a
brand name.
1. Wattle
quebracho
chestnut extract
2. Enzymatic
preparations
pretanning [3202]
1

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GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
77
12%
18%
28%
natural
substances.
3. 3203
tanning
tints,
amusement
colours and the like, in
tablets, tubes, jars,
Colouring
matter of vegetable
or animal origin
(including dyeing
extracts
but
excluding animal
black), whether or not
chemically defined;
preparations
specified in Note 3 to
this Chapter based on
colouring matter of
vegetable or animal
origin.
4. 3204
as
Synthetic
organic colouring
matter, whether or
not
chemically
defined; preparations
as specified in Note 3
to this Chapter based
on synthetic organic
colouring matter;
synthetic organic
products of a kind
used as fluorescent
bottles, pans or in
similar
forms or
packings [3213]
14. Glaziers'
putty,
non-
grafting putty, resin
cements, caulking
compounds and other
mastics; painters'
fillings;
refractory surfacing
preparations
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cluding metallic
Pigments
28%
33.
33
(Essential oils
and resinoids,
1. Kumkum,
Bindi, Sindur,
Alta [3304]
powders and flakes)
dispersed in non-
aqueous media, in
liquid or paste form,
of a kind used in the
manufacture of paints
(including enamels);
stamping foils; dyes
and other colouring
matter put up in
forms or packings for
reta
10.3215
Printing
ink, writing or
drawing ink and
other inks, whether or
not concentrated or
solid.
1. Tooth powder [3306 1. 3301 Essential oils All goods not specified
10 10]
(terpeneless or not), elsewhere
including concretes
12
79
S.
Chapter
No.
perfumery,
cosmetic or toilet
preparations)
Nil
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
2. Agarbatti and other
odoriferous
preparations which
operate by burning
[3307 41 00]
18%
and
of
28%
and
and
absolutes; 1.3303 Perfumes
resinoids; extracted toilet waters.
oleoresins;
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individual
packages
dentifrices
and
retail
[except
80
80
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
mixtures (including
alcoholic solutions)
with a basis of one or
more of these
substances, of a kind
used as raw materials
in industry; other
preparations based on
odoriferous
substances, of a kind
used for the
manufacture
of
beverages; such as
Synthetic perfumery
compounds
[including
Fractionated / de-
terpenated mentha oil
(DTMO),
mentholised
28%
Toothpaste 3306 10
20].
5. 3307

Pre-shave,
bath
shaving or after-shave
preparations, personal
deodorants,
preparations,
depilatories and other
perfumery, cosmetic or
toilet preparations, not
elsewhere specified or
included; prepared
deodorisers,
room
or
not
whether
perfumed or having
disinfectant properties;
such as Pre-shave,
shaving or after-shave
Preparations, Shaving
De-
oil
cream,
(DMO)

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waxes [3404]
1. 340130
surface-active
products
preparations
washing the skin, in
the form of liquid or
cream and put up for
retail sale, whether or
not containing soap;
paper, wadding, felt
and
nonwovens,
impregnated, coated
or covered with soap
or detergent
2. 3402 Organic surface-
active agents (other
than soap); surface-
active preparations,
washing preparations
(including auxiliary
washing preparations)
and
cleaning
preparations, whether
or not containing
soap, other than those
of heading 3401.
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
28%
3. 3403 Lubricating
preparations
(including cutting-oil
preparations, bolt or
nut
release
preparations, anti-rust
or
anti-corrosion
preparations and
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mould
release
preparations, based on
lubricants)
and
preparations of a kind
used for the oil or
grease treatment of
textile
materials,
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r
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
35.
35
(Aluminoidal
substances;
modified
starches; glues;
enzymes)
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
28%
preparations for use in
dentistry, with a basis
of plaster (of calcined
gypsum or calcium
sulphate)
85
85
All goods
1. Casein,
and other
caseinates
casein
derivatives; casein
glues [3501]
2. Albumins (including
or
concentrates of two
more whey
proteins, containing
by weight more than
80% whey proteins,
calculated on the dry
matter), albuminates
and other albumin
derivatives [3502].
3. Gelatin (including
gelatin in rectangular
(including square)
sheets, whether or not
surface-worked or
coloured) and gelatin
derivatives; isinglass;
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
other glues of animal
origin, excluding
casein glues of
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wders All goods not specified
[3601].
2. Safety
detonating
percussion
detonating
igniters;
1. Matches [3605]
elsewhere
fuses; 1. 3602
Prepared
fuses; explosives, other than
or
caps;
electric
detonators [3603].
propellant powders;
such as Industrial
explosives.
2. 3604
Fireworks,
signalling flares, rain
rockets, fog signals and
other
articles.
pyrotechnic
3. 3606 Ferro-cerium and
other pyrophoric alloys
in all forms; articles of
combustible materials
as specified in Note 2 to
this Chapter; such as
liquid or liquefied-gas
fuels in containers of a
87
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[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
37.
37.
(Photographic or
cinematographic
goods)
5%
12%
18%
1. 3701 Photographic All goods not specified
plates and film for elsewhere
X-ray for medical
use.
2. Photographic plates
and films including
cinematographic
film [3705, 3706];
such as Children's
films certified

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tised,
unexposed.
28%
3. 3703 Photographic
paper, paperboard
and
sensitised,
unexposed.
textiles,
4. 3704 Photographic
plates, film, paper,
paperboard
and
textiles, exposed but
not developed.
5. 3706
Cinematographic
film, exposed and
developed, whether
or not incorporating
sound track or
consisting only of
sound track.
6. 3707
Chemical
preparations for
photographic uses
(other than varnishes,
glues, adhesives and
similar preparations);
unmixed products for
photographic uses,
put up in measured
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
38.
38
(Miscellaneous
chemical
products)
1. Municipal
waste, sewage
sludge, clinical
waste
5%
1. Silicon
[3818]
12%
18%
portions or put up for
retail sale in a form
ready for use.
28%
wafers 1. Artificial graphite; All goods not specified
colloidal or semi- elsewhere
colloidal graphite; 1. 3811 Anti-knock
preparations bas

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Nil
No.
5%
91
12%
18%
5. Gum, wood or
sulphate turpentine
and other terpenic 4.
oils produced by the
distillation or other
treatment
of
coniferous woods;
crude dipentene;
sulphite turpentine
and other crude para-
cymene; pine oil
containing alpha-
terpineol as the main
constituent [3805].
6. Rosin and resin acids,
and
derivatives
thereof; rosin spirit
and rosin oils; run
gums [3806]
7. Wood tar; wood tar
oils; wood creosote;
wood naphtha;
vegetable pitch;
brewers' pitch and
similar preparations
based on rosin, resin
acids or on vegetable
pitch [3807]
28%
paint or varnish
removers.
3819 Hydraulic brake
fluids and other
prepared liquids for
hydraulic
transmission,
containing
not
or
containing less than
70% by weight of
petroleum oils or oils
obtained
from
bituminous minerals.
5. 3820 Anti-
freezing preparations
and prepared de-icing
fluids.
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compound
rubber
plasticisers for rubber
or plastics, not
elsewhere specified
or included; anti-
oxidising
preparations and
other compound
stabilisers for rubber
or plastics.; such as
Vulcanizing agents
for rubber [3812]
12. Reaction initiators,
reaction accelerators
and
catalytic
preparations, not
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
elsewhere specified
or included. [3815]
13. Refractory cements,
mortars, concretes
and
similar
compositions, other
than products of
heading 3801 [3816]
14. Mixed alkylbenzenes
and
mixed
alkylnaphthalenes,
etc. [3817]
15. Chemical elements
doped for use in
electronics, in the
form of discs, wafers
or similar forms;
chemical compounds
doped for use in
electronics [3818];
other than silicon
wafers.
16. Prepared
culture
media for the
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maintenance
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(including viruses
and the l

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90 24), Precipitated
Silica (3824 90 25)
[3824].
20.3825
Residual
not
products of the
chemical or allied
industries,
elsewhere specified
or included; [except
municipal waste;
sewage sludge; other
wastes specified in
Note 6 to this
Chapter.]
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96
21. Biodiesel
and
28%
or
mixtures thereof, not
containing
containing less than
70% by weight of
petroleum oils and
oils obtained from
bituminous minerals
[3826].
S.
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No.
39.
39
(Plastics
and
articles thereof)
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Nil
1. Plastic bangles
5%
12%
1. Feeding bottles.
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18%
28%
All goods not specified 1. Floor coverings of
elsewhere
1. Primary polymers [all
goods falling under
3901 to 3913]
2. Ion exchangers based
on primary polymers
[3914]
3. Waste, parings and
scrap,
of plastics
[3915]
4. All goods including
canes of plastics
[3916]
5. Tubes, pipes and
hoses, and fittings
ther

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plastics,
elsewhere specified
(like reservoirs, vats,
shutters, containers,
doors and windows
and their frames,
thresholds,
etc.) [3925]
blinds
10. PVC Belt Conveyor
(3926 90 10)]
rubber, 1. Latex Rubber Thread All goods not specified
[4007]
and
1. Condoms and 1. Natural
contraceptives
[4014]
balata, gutta-percha,
guayule, chicle and
similar natural gums,
in primary forms or
elsewhere
2. Surgical
rubber
gloves or medical 1. 4002
examination rubber
in plates, sheets or
strip [4001]
gloves [4015]
3.
Nipples of feeding
bottles [4014]
2. Toy balloons made
of natural rubber
latex [4016]
3. Pneumatic tyres or
inner tubes, of
Synthetic
rubber and factice
derived from oils, in
primary forms or in
plates, sheets or strip;
mixtures of any
product of heading
4001 with any
product of this
pneumatic
1. New
tyres, of rubber used
in motor cars, buses or
lorries, aircraft, motor
cycles etc [4011]
[other than of a kind
used on/in bicycles,
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e
rickshaws and three
wheeled powered
cycle rickshaws.]
4. Other articles of
vulcanised
including
rubber
Floor
coverings and mats,
rubber boats or dock
fenders, air mattress,
rubber cots for textile
industry, cushions, of
vulcanised rubber
(other than erasers)
[4016]
5. Hard rubber and
articles of Hard
Rubber (including
printers rollers and
textile rollers and
cyclostyling rollers)
[4017]
99
99
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
100
12%
18%
5. 4006
Other
forms (for example,
rods, tubes and
profile shapes) and
articles (for example,
discs and rings), of
unvulcanised
rubber.
6. 4007 Vulcanised
rubber thread and
cord, other than latex
rubber thread.
7. 4008
Plates,
sheets, strip, rods
and profile shapes, of
vulcanised rubber
other than hard
rubber.
8. 4009
Tubes,
pipes and hoses, of
vulcanised rubber
other than hard
rubber, with or
without the

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kins, tanned
or crust hides and skins,
further prepared
not
[4101 to 4106]
1. 4101
Raw
hides and skins of
bovine (including
buffalo) or equine
animals (fresh, or
salted, dried, limed,
pickled or otherwise
preserved, but not
tanned, parchment-
dressed or further
prepared), whether
or not dehaired or
split.
2. 4102
Raw
skins of sheep or
lambs (fresh, or
salted, dried, limed,
pickled or otherwise
preserved, but not
tanned, parchment-
12%
All goods, that is leather
further prepared, etc.
[4107 to 4115]
1. 4107
Leather
further prepared after
tanning or crusting,
including
parchment-dressed
leather, of bovine
(including buffalo)
or equine animals,
without hair on,
whether or not split,
other than leather of
heading 4114.
4107 to 4111 Blank in
Tariff.
2. 4112
Leather
further prepared after
tanning or crusting,
including
parchment-dressed
leather, of sheep or
lamb, without wool
on, whether or not
18%
rubber [other than
Surgical gloves].

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ation
chamois) leather;
patent leather and
patent laminated
leather; metallised
leather.
5. 4115 Composition
leather with a basis
of leather or leather
fibre, in slabs, sheets
or strip, whether or
not in rolls; parings
and other waste of
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[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
5%
12%
18%
No.
but
prepared.
not further
leather or
composition leather,
of
6. 4106
not suitable for the
manufacture
of
leather
articles;
42.
42
[Articles
of
leather; saddlery
and
harness;
travel goods,
handbags and
similar
containers;
articles of animal
gut (other than
silk-worm gut)]
28%
Tanned
or crust hides and
skins of other
animals, without
wool or hair on,
whether or not split,
but not further
prepared.]
leather dust, powder
and flour
1. Gloves
specially
designed for use in
sports [4203]
All goods not specified
elsewhere
1. 4201 Saddlery and
harness for any animal

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essories, of leather
or of composition
leather.
4204 Blank in Tariff.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
43.
43
(Furskin
artificial
manufacturers
thereof)
and
fur;
5%
106
12%
18%
28%
4. 4205
Raw
Other
articles of leather or of
composition leather.
5. 4206 Articles of gut
(other than silk-worm
gut), of goldbeater's
skin, of bladders or of
tendons.
All goods not specified
elsewhere
1. 4303
1. 4301
furskins, including
heads, tails, paws and
other pieces or
cuttings, suitable for
furriers' use), other
than raw hides and
skins of heading 2.
4101, 4102 or 4103;
of mink, of lamb, of
fox, etc.
2. 4302 Tanned or
dressed furskins
(including heads,
tails, paws and other
pieces or cuttings),
unassembled, or
assembled (without
the addition of other
materials) other than
Articles of
clothing
apparel,
accessories and other
articles of furskin.
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plints] [4408]
Wood (including
strips and friezes for
parquet flooring, not
assembled)
continuously shaped
split poles; piles,
pickets and stakes of
wood, pointed but
not sawn lengthwise; 4.
wooden sticks,
roughly trimmed but
not turned, bent or
otherwise worked,
board,
Strand
Board (OSB) and
similar board (for
example, wafer board)
of wood or other
ligneous materials,
whether or not
agglomerated with
resins or other organic
binding substances,
107
S.
No.
Chapter
Nil
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
suitable for the
manufacture
of
walking-sticks,
umbrellas,
tool
handles or the like.
Wood
2. 4405
wool; wood flour.
3. 4406
Railway
or tramway sleepers
(cross-ties) of wood.
4. The
following
goods, namely:
a. Cement Bonded
18%
(tongued, grooved,
rebated, chamfered,
v-jointed, beaded, 2.
moulded, rounded or
the like) along any of
its edges or faces,
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d on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
h. Particle/fibre
board
manufactured
from agricultural
crop residues.
Packing
5. 4415
cases, boxes, crates,
drums and similar
packings, of wood;
cable-drums
of
wood; pallets, box
pallets and other load
boards, of wood;
pallet collars of
wood.
6. 4416
Casks,
barrels, vats, tubs
and other coopers'
products and parts
thereof, of wood,
including staves.
Tools,
7. 4417
tool bodies, tool
handles, broom or
brush bodies and
handles, of wood;
boot or shoe lasts and
trees, of wood.
109
18%
28%
panels, shingles and
shakes [4418]
7. Wood paving blocks,
articles of densified
wood not elsewhere
included or specified,
Parts of domestic
decorative articles
used as tableware and
kitchenware.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
18%
28%
S.
No.
Chapter
Nil
5%
12%
8. 4420
Wood
marquetry and inlaid
wood; caskets and
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ste
cork;
crushed,
granulated or ground
cork.
2. 4502
Natural
cork, debacked or
roughly squared, or in
rectangular
(including square)
blocks, plates, sheets
or strip (including
sharp-edged blanks
for corks or stoppers).
3. 4503 Articles
of natural cork such
28%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
46.
46
(Manufactures of
straw, of esparto
or of other
plaiting
materials;
Basket-ware and
wickerwork)
28%
and
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
as
18%
Corks
Stoppers, Shuttlecock
cork bottom.
4. 4504 Agglomerated
cork (with or without
a binding substance)
and articles of
agglomerated cork.]
All goods
1. 4601
Plaits and
similar products of
plaiting materials,
whether or not
assembled
strips;
into
plaiting
materials, plaits and
similar products of
plaiting materials,
bound together in
parallel strands or
woven, in sheet
form, whether or not
being
finished
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8%
28%
48.
48
(Paper
paperboard;
and
articles of paper
pulp, of paper or
of paperboard)
1. Judicial, Non- 1. Newsprint, in rolls
judicial stamp or sheets [4801]
papers, Court
fee
stamps
when sold by
the
Government
Treasuries
or
Vendors
authorized by
the
mechanical
chemical pulping
processes.
6. 4706 Pulps of
fibres derived from
recovered (waste and
scrap) paper or
paperboard or of
other
fibrous
cellulosic material.
7. 4707
Recovered
(waste and scrap)
paper
paperboard.]
or
1. Uncoated paper and All goods not specified 1. Wall paper and similar
paperboard, uncoated elsewhere
wall coverings [4814]
kraft
greaseproof
glassine
paper,
paper, 1. 4803
paper,
composite paper etc.
[4802, 4804, 4805,
4806 20 00, 4806 40
10, 4807, 4808, 4810,
4817]
2. Aseptic packaging
paper [4811]
114
Toilet or
facial tissue stock,
towel or napkin
stock and similar
paper of a kind used
for household or
sanitary purposes,
cellulose wadding
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and other
glazed transparent or
translucent papers, in
rolls or sheets.
4809 Carbon
paper, self-copy
or
paper and other
copying or transfer
papers (including
coated
impregnated paper
for duplicator stencils
or offset plates),
whether or not
printed, in rolls or
sheets.
4. 4811
Paper,
paperboard,
cellulose wadding
115
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
116
12%
18%
28%
and
webs
of
cellulose
fibres,
coated, impregnated,
covered, surface-
coloured, surface-
decorated or printed,
in rolls or rectangular
(including square)
sheets, of any size,
other than goods of
the kind described in
heading 4803, 4809
or 4810 [Other
aseptic packaging
paper and
5. 4812
Filter
blocks, slabs and
plates, of paper pulp.
6. 4813 Cigarette
paper, whether or not
cut to size or in the
form of booklets or
tubes.
7. 4815
Tariff
8. 4816

Blank in
Carbon
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able cloths,
serviettes, napkins
for babies, tampons,
bed sheets and
similar household,
sanitary or hospital
articles, articles of
apparel and clothing
accessories, or paper
pulp, paper, cellulose
wadding or webs of
cellulose fibres.
Registers,
11.4820
account books, note
books, order books,
receipt books, letter
118
pads, memorandum
pads, diaries and
similar
exercise
articles,
books,
blotting-pads, binders
(loose-leaf or other),
folders, file covers,
manifold business
28%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
forms, interleaved
carbon sets and other
articles of stationary,
of
paper
or
paperboard; and
book covers, of paper
or
paperboard
[including Albums
for samples or for
collections].
12. 4821
Paper or
paperboard labels
of all kinds, whether
or not printed.
13.4822
Bobbins,
spools, cops and
similar supports of
paper pulp, paper or
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ture, drawing or
colouring books.
2. 4904
Music,
printed or in
manuscript,
whether or not bound
or illustrated.
3. 4906
Plans
and drawings for
architectural,
engineering,
industrial,
commercial,
topographical or
similar purposes,
being
originals
drawn by hand;
hand-written texts;
photographic
paper pulp moulded
trays]
120
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
No.
Chapter
Nil
5%
similar charts of all
kinds, including
12%
reproductions
on
atlases, wall maps,
topographical
plans and globes,
printed.]
sensitised paper and
carbon copies of the
foregoing.
4. 4907
Unused
postage, revenue or
similar stamps of
current or new issue
in the country in
which they have, or
will have, a
recognised face
value;
stamp-
impressed
paper;
banknotes; cheque
forms; stock, share
or bond certificates
and
similar
documents of title.
5. Transfers
(decalcomanias)
[4908]
6. 4909 Pr

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of computer or
any other devices.
1. Safety headgear such All goods not specified
as helmets [6506 10] | elsewhere [other than
1. 6504 Hats and helmets, textile head
other
headgear, gears]
plaited or made by
assembling strips of 2. 6501 Hat-forms,
any material, whether
or not lined
trimmed.
2. 6505
other
or
Hats and
headgear,
knitted or crocheted,
or made up from lace,
felt or other textile
fabric, in the piece
(but not in strips),
whether or not lined
or trimmed; hair-nets
of any material,
whether or not lined
or trimmed.
hat bodies and hoods
of felt, neither blocked
to shape nor with
made brims; plateaux
and
manchons
slit
(including
manchons), of felt.
Hat-
3. 6502
shapes, plaited or
made by assembling
strips of any material,
neither blocked to
shape, nor with made
brims, nor lined, nor
trimmed.
4. 6503-Blank in Tariff.
123
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter

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of [6701
all goods]
18%
125
28%
All goods not specified
elsewhere
1. 6702
Artificial
flowers, foliage and
fruit and parts thereof;
articles made of
artificial flowers,
foliage or fruit.
2. 6703
Human
hair, dressed, thinned,
bleached or otherwise
worked; wool or other
animal hair or other
textile
materials,
prepared for use in
making wigs or the
like.
3. 6704
beards,
and
Wigs, false
eyebrows
eyelashes,
switches and the like,
of human or animal
hair or of textile
materials; articles of
human hair not
elsewhere specified or
included.
Chapter
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Nil
18%
S.
No.
68.
68
(Articles of stone,
plaster, cement,
asbestos, mica or
similar material)
5%
12%
1. Sand lime bricks
2. Fly ash bricks.
126
28%
1. 6804 Millstones, All goods not specified
grindstones, grinding elsewhere
wheels and the like,
without frameworks, 1. 6801
grinding, curbstones

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late.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
127
12%
28%
coated 4. 6807 Articles of
asphalt or of similar
18%
corundum
paper, Flint coated
paper, Glass or sand
coated paper.
3. 6806
Slag
wool, rock wool and
similar mineral
wools; exfoliated
vermiculite,
5.
expanded clays,
foamed slag and
similar expanded
mineral materials;
mixtures and articles
of heat-insulating,
sound-insulating or
sound-absorbing
mineral materials,
other than those of
heading 6811 or 6812
or chapter 69.
4. 6811 Articles of
asbestos-cement, of
cellulose
fibre-
cement or the like.
material (for example,
petroleum bitumen or
coal tar pitch).
6808
Panels,
boards, tiles, blocks
and similar articles
of vegetable fibre, of
straw or of shavings,
chips,
particles,
other
sawdust or
waste, of wood,
agglomerated with
cement, plaster or
other mineral binders.
6. 6809 Articles of
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the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
129
12%
18%
28%
9. 6813 Friction material
and articles thereof
(for example, sheets,
rolls, strips, segments,
discs, washers, pads),
not mounted, for
brakes, for clutches or
the like, with a basis of
asbestos, of other
mineral substances or
of cellulose, whether
or not combined with
textiles or other
materials.
10. 6814 Worked mica
and articles of mica,
including
or
agglomerated
reconstituted mica,
whether or not on a
support of paper,
paperboard or other
materials.
11. 6815 Articles of stone
or of other mineral
substances (including
carbon fibres, articles
of carbon fibres and
articles of peat), not
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
69.
69
(Ceramic
products)
1. Earthen
pot
1. Building
bricks
and clay lamps
[6904 10 00]
[6912 00 40]
2. Bricks of fossil
meals or
similar
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er than Earthen
pot and clay lamps].
4.
6904 Ceramic flooring
blocks, support or
filler tiles and the like.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
131
12%
18%
5. 6905
28%
Chimney-pots,
cowls, chimney liners,
architectural
ornaments and other
ceramic constructional
goods.
6. 6906 Ceramic pipes,
conduits, guttering
and pipe fittings.
7. 6907 Ceramic flags
and paving, hearth or
wall tiles; ceramic
mosaic cubes and the
like, whether or not on
a backing; finishing
ceramics
8. 6908
Glazed
ceramic flags and
paving, hearth or wall
tiles; glazed ceramic
mosaic cubes and the
like, whether or not on
a backing.
9. 6909 Ceramic wares
for
laboratory,
chemical or other
technical
uses;
ceramic troughs, tubs
and similar receptacles
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
70. 70
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er, but
not otherwise worked.
132
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
133
12%
18%
4. 7010 Carboys,
bottles, flasks, jars,
pots,
phials,
ampoules and other
containers, of glass,
of a kind used for the
conveyance
packing of goods;
preserving jars of
glass; stoppers, lids
and other closures, of
glass.
or
5. 7013 Glassware of a
kind used for table,
kitchen, toilet, office,
indoor decoration or
28%
2. 7004 Drawn
glass and blown glass,
in sheets, whether or
not having an
absorbent, reflecting
or non-reflecting
layer, but
otherwise worked.
3.
similar purposes 4.
(other than that of
heading 7010 or
7018).
6. 7015
Clock or
watch glasses and
similar
glasses,
glasses for non-
not
7005 Float glass
and surface ground or
polished glass, in
sheets, whether or not
having an absorbent,
reflecting or non-
reflecting layer, but
not otherwise worked.
7006
Glass

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ed
glass, other than
imitaion jewelery;
glass microsphers not
exceeding 1 mm in
diameter:
mirrors, whether or
8. 7011
not framed, including
rear-view mirrors.
Glass
envelopes (including
bulbs and tubes),
open, and glass parts
thereof,
without
fittings, for electric
lamps, cathode-ray
tubes or the like.
9. 7012
Tariff.
10. 7014

Blank in
Signalling
glassware and optical
elements of glass
(other than those of
heading 7015), not
optically worked.
11. 7016 Paving
blocks, slabs, bricks,
squares, tiles and other
articles of pressed or
moulded
glass,
whether or not wired,
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
72.
72
(Iron and steel)
5%
135
12%
18%
9. 7019
fibres (including
glass wool) and
articles thereof (for
example,
yarn,
woven fabrics)
Glass
All goods
1. 7201 Pig iron
and spiegeleisen in
pigs, blocks or other
primary forms.
28%
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Iron and
non-alloy steel in
ingots or other
primary
forms
(excluding iron of
heading 7203).
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
137
12%
18%
7. 7207
Semi-
finished products of
iron or non-alloy
steel.
8. 7208
Flat-
rolled products of
iron or non-alloy
steel, of a width of
600 mm or more,
hot-rolled, not clad,
plated or coated.
9. 7209 Flat-
rolled products of
iron or non-alloy
steel, of a width of
600 mm or more,
cold-rolled (cold-
reduced), not clad,
plated or coated.
10. 7210 Flat-
rolled products of
iron or non-alloy
steel, of a width of
600 mm or more,
clad, plated or coated.
11.7211 Flat-
rolled products of
iron or non-alloy
steel, of a width of
28%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
less than 600 mm, not
clad, plated or coated.
Flat-
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mm not further
worked than hot-
rolled
21.7221
Bars and
rods, hot-rolled, in
irregularly wound
coils, of stainless
steel.
22.7222
Other bars
and rods of stainless
steel; angles, shapes
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
and sections of
stainless steel.
23.7223
Wire of
stainless steel.
24. 7224
Other
alloy steel in ingots or
other primary forms;
semi-finished
products of other
alloy steel.
25.7225
Flat-
rolled products of
other alloy steel, of a
width of 600 mm or
more of sillicon
electrical steel
26.7226
Flat-
rolled products of
other alloy steel, of a
width of less than 600
mm.
27.7227
Bars and
rods, hot-rolled, in
irregularly wound
coils, of other alloy
steel.
28.7228
Other bars
and rods of other
alloy steel; angles,
140
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
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s], ranges,
grates,
cookers
(including those with
subsidiary boilers for
central
heating),
barbecues, braziers,
gas-rings,
plate
warmers and similar
non-electric domestic
appliances, and parts
thereof, of iron or steel
[7321]
Radiators for central
heating,
not
electrically heated,
and parts thereof, of
iron or steel; air
heaters and hot air
distributors (including
141
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
142
12%
18%
crossing
pieces,
sleepers (cross-ties),
fish-plates, chairs,
chair wedges, sole
plates (base plates),
rail clips bedplates,
ties and other
material specialized
for jointing or fixing
rails
3. 7303
Tubes,
pipes and hollow
profiles, of cast iron.
4. 7304
Tubes,
pipes and hollow
profiles, seamless, of
iron (other than cast
iron) or steel.
5. 7305
Other
tubes and pipes (for
example, welded,
riveted or similarly
3.
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d
shutters,
balustrades, pillars,
and columns), of iron
or steel; plates, rods,
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
18%
angles,
shapes,
144
section, tubes and the
like, prepared for
using structures, of
iron or steel [other
than transmission
towers] [7308]
9. Reservoirs, tanks,
vats and similar
containers for any
material (other than
compressed
or
liquefied gas), of iron
or steel, of a capacity
exceeding 300 1,
whether or not lined
or heat-insulated, but
not fitted with
mechanical
or
thermal equipment
[7309]
10. Tanks, casks, drums,
cans, boxes and
similar containers,
for any material
(other
than
compressed
liquefied gas), of iron
or steel, of a capacity
or
28%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
not exceeding 300 1,
whether or not lined
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aples (other than
those of heading
8305) and similar
articles, of iron or
steel, whether or not
with heads of other
material,
excluding
but
such
articles with heads of
copper.
18.7318
Screws,
bolts, nuts, coach
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
screws, screw hooks,
rivets, cotters, cotter-
pins,
washers
(including spring
147
washers) and similar
articles, of iron or
steel.
19. 7319
Sewing
needles,
knitting
needles,
bodkins,
crochet
hooks,
embroidery stilettos
and similar articles,
for use in the hand, of
iron or steel; safety
pins and other pins of
iron or steel, not
elsewhere specified
or included.
20. Springs and leaves
for springs, of iron
and steel [7320]
21. LPG stoves [7321]
22. 7323
steel
iron or
wool; pot
scourers and scouring
or polishing pads,
gloves and the like, of
iron or steel.
28%
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sil &
sign
board),
Manufactures
of
stainless
steel
(excluding utensils),
Articles of clad metal
[7326]
(Copper
and
2. Table or kitchen or
elsewhere
articles thereof)
other household
articles of copper
[7418]
1. 7401
Copper
mattes;
cement
149
28%
All goods not specified 1. All goods other than
copper (precipitated
copper).
2. 7402
Unrefined
copper
for
copper;
anodes
electrolytic refining.
3. 7403
Refined
copper and copper
alloys, unwrought.
4. 7404 Copper
waste and scrap.
utensils i.e. sanitary
ware and parts thereof
of copper [7418]
2. Other articles of
copper
[including
chain and parts thereof
under 7419 10 and
other articles under
7419 99] but not
including
metal
castings under 7419
91 00 [7419]
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
150
12%
18%
28%
5. 7405
Master
6. 7406
Copper
alloys of copper.
powders and flakes.
7. 7407 Copper
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3. 7503
4. 7504
Unwrought
Nickel
waste and scrap.
Nickel
powders and flakes.
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
76.
76
(Aluminium and
articles thereof)
12%
18%
5. 7505
Nickel
28%
1. Utensils [7615]
2. Table or kitchen or
bars, rods, profiles
and wire.
6. 7506
Nickel
plates, sheets, strip
and foil.
7. 7507
Nickel
tubes, pipes and tube
or pipe fittings (for
example, couplings,
elbows, sleeves).
Wire,
8. Other articles of
nickel; such as cloth,
grill and netting, of
nickel
Electroplating anodes
of nickel, Blanks
ordinarily used for
manufacturing_tubes
& pipes of nickel,
Nickel screen, Other
articles of nickel and
nickel alloy [7508]
All goods not specified 1. Aluminium
elsewhere
other household
articles of aluminium
[7615]
1. 7601
Aluminium
alloys; such as Ingots,
foil
(whether or not
printed or backed with
paper, paperboard,
plastics o

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OR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
bridge-sections,
towers, lattice masts,
roofs,
frameworks,
roofing
balustrades, pillars
and
columns);
aluminium plates.
rods, profiles, tubes
and the like, prepared
for use in structures.
10. Aluminium
reservoirs, tanks, vats
and
similar
or
containers, for any
material (other than
compressed
liquefied gas), of a
capacity exceeding
300 1, whether or not
lined or heat-
insulated, but not
fitted
with
mechanical
or
thermal equipment
[7611]
11. Aluminium
casks,
drums, cans, boxes,
etc. [7612]
154
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
77.
78.
77 (blank in
tariff)
78
(Lead and articles
thereof)
155
12%
18%
12. Aluminium
containers
for
or
compressed
liquefied gas [7613]
13. Stranded wires and
cables [7614]
14. 7616 Other articles of
aluminium; such as

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.
No.
Chapter
(Tin and articles
thereof)
81.
81
(Other
base
metals; cermets;
articles thereof)
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Nil
5%
12%
18%
1. 8001Unwrought tin.
1. 8002
and scrap.
2. 8003
Tin waste
Tin bars,
rods, profiles and
wire]
3. Other articles of tin
[8007]
All goods
1. Other base metals,
such as Tungsten,
Molybdenum,
Tantalum,
Magnesium, Cobalt
mattes, and other
intermediate products
of cobalt metallurgy,
Bismuth, Cadmium,
Titanium, Zirconium,
157
Antimony,
Manganese,
Beryllium,
chromium,
germanium,
vanadium, gallium,
hafnium,
niobium
(columbium),
indium,
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
18%
28%
rhenium
thallium,
and
and
cermets, including
their waste scrap
[other than Articles
of other base metals
and articles of
cermets] [8101 to
8113]
2. Arti

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paper knives, pencil
pliers),
tweezers,
cutting shears, pipe-
cutters, bolt croppers,
perforating punches
and similar hand
tools.
158
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
No.
Chapter
Nil
similar hewing
tools; secateurs
and pruners of
any
kind;
scythes,
sickles, hay
knives, hedge
shears, timber
wedges and
other tools of a
kind used in
agriculture,
horticulture or
forestry
[8201].
5%
12%
18%
2. 8204
Hand-
operated spanners
and
wrenches
(including torque
meter wrenches but
not including tap
wrenches);
interchangeable
spanner sockets, with
or without handles.
3. 8205
tools
Hand
(including
glaziers' diamonds),
not
elsewhere
28%
sharpeners and blades
thereof [8214].
159
or
specified or included;
blow lamps; vices,
clamps and the like,
other than accessories
for and parts of,
machine-tools
water-jet cutting
machines; anvils;
portable forges; hand
or pedal-opera

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mechanical
appliances, weighing
10 kg or less, used in
the preparation,
conditioning
or
serving of food or
drink.
161
9. 8213
Scissors,
28%
tailors' shears and
similar shears, and
blades therefor.
10. 8215
forks,
Spoons,
ladles,
skimmers, cake-
servers, fish-knives,
butter-knives, sugar
tongs and similar
kitchen or tableware.
1. 8301
Padlocks
All goods not specified
elsewhere
or 1. 8302
and locks (key,
combination
electrically operated),
of base metal; clasps
and frames with
clasps, incorporating
locks, of base metal;
keys for any of the
Base metal
mountings, fittings
and similar articles
suitable for furniture,
doors,
windows,
staircases,
blinds,
coachwork, saddlery,
S.
No.
Chapter
Nil
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
foregoing articles, of
base metal.
2. Bells, gongs and the
like [8306]
28%
trunks, chests, caskets
or the like; base metal
hat-racks

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ture of
heading 9403.
8305 Fittings for
loose-leaf binders or
files, letter clips, letter
162
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
163
metal powder, used
for metal spraying
[8311]
28%
corners, paper clips,
indexing tags and
similar office articles,
of base metal; staples
in strips (for example,
for offices, upholstery,
packaging), of base
metal.
5. 8308 Clasps,
frames with clasps,
buckles, buckle-
clasps, hooks, eyes,
eyelets and the like, of
base metal, of a kind
used for clothing or
clothing accessories,
footwear, jewellery,
wrist watches, books,
awnings, leather
goods, travel goods or
saddlery or for other
made up articles;
tubular or bifurcated
rivets, of base metal;
beads and spangles, of
base metal.
6. 8310
Sign-
plates, name-plates,
address-plates and
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dairy machinery
[8434]
5. Sewing
[8452]
machines
reactors;
and
1. Nuclear reactors; fuel
elements (cartridges),
non-irradiated, for
nuclear
machinery
apparatus for isotopic
separation [8401]
Steam or other
vapour generating
boilers (other than
central heating hot
water boilers capable
also of producing low
pressure steam);
super-heated water
boilers [8402]
3. Central heating
boilers other than
those of heading
8402 [8403]
reciprocating or rotary
internal combustion
piston engine [8407]
2. Compression-ignition
3.
4.
internal combustion
piston engines (diesel
semi-diesel
or
engines) [8408]
Parts suitable for use
solely or principally
with the engines of
heading 8407 or 8408
[8409]
Pumps for dispensing
fuel or lubricants of
the type used in filling
stations or garages
under 8413 11(except
hand pumps under
8413 11 10), Fuel,
lubricating or cooling
medium pumps for
164
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[As per discussions in the GST Council M

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hoods
compressors and fans;
ventilating
recycling
incorporating a fan,
whether or not fitted
with filters [8414]
Air-conditioning
machines, comprising
a motor-driven fan and
elements for changing
the temperature and
humidity, including
those machines in
which the humidity
cannot be separately
regulated [8415]
7. Refrigerators, freezers
and other refrigerating
or freezing equipment,
165
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
gas turbines
jets [8411]

turbo-
9. Other engines and
motors (Reaction
engines other than
turbo jets, Hydraulic
power engines and
motors, Pneumatic
power engines and
motors, other, parts)
[other than wind
turbine or engine]
[8412]
10. 8416
Furnace
burners for liquid
fuel, for pulverised
solid fuel or for gas;
mechanical stokers,
including their
mechanical grates,
mechanical
dischargers
ash
and
similar appliances.
11.841

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l
dryers; filtering or
purifying machinery
and apparatus, for
liquids or gases
[8421]
14. 8425 Pulley tackle
and hoists other than
skip hoists; winches
and capstans; jacks
15. Ship's
28%
and tissue culture
chambers and rooms
having temperature,
humidity or light
control], 8419 89 70 [
Apparatus for rapid
heating of semi-
conductor devices
apparatus for chemical
or physical vapour
deposition
semiconductor wafers;
on
apparatus for chemical
vapour deposition on
LCD
[8419]
derricks; 9. Dish
frames,
cranes including
cable cranes; mobile
lifting
straddle carriers and
works trucks fitted
with a crane [8426]
16. 8431 Parts suitable
for use solely or
principally with the
machinery
of
headings 8425 to
8430
substratus]
washing
household
machines,
[8422 11 00] and other
[8422 19 00] [8422]
10. Weighing machinery
(excluding balances of
a sensitivity of 5
centigrams or better),
including weight
operated counting or
checking machines;
weighing

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aper or paperboard.
20. 8440
Book-
binding machinery,
including book-
sewing machines.
levellers, scrapers,
mechanical shovels,
excavators, shovel
tamping
and road
rollers [8429]
15. Other
moving,
grading, levelling,
scraping, excavating,
tamping, compacting,
extracting or boring
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
28%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
169
18%
21.8441
Other
machinery
making up paper
for
machinery, for earth,
minerals or ores; pile-
drivers
extractors;
snow-
pulp, paper or
paperboard,
including cutting
machines of all kinds.
and pile-
ploughs and snow-
blowers [8430]
16. Printer,
photo
copying,
fax
and
machines,
ink
22.8442 Machinery,
apparatus
equipment (other
than the machines of
headings 8456 to
8465) for preparing
or making plates,
printing components;
plates, cylinders and
lithographic stones,
prepared for printing
purposes
example, planed,
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spinning,
doubling or twisting
machines and other
machinery
for
producing textile
yarns; textile reeling
or winding (including
weft-winding)
machines
machines
preparing
and
for
textile
yarns for use on the
machines of heading
8446 or 8447
26.8446
Weaving
machines (looms).
28%
electric or
electric] [8472]
non-
19. Automatic goods-
vending machines (for
example, postage
stamps, cigarette, food
or
beverage
changing
machines), including
money
machines [8476]
20. Machinery
for
preparing or making
up tobacco, not
specified or included
elsewhere in this
chapter [8478]
21. Passenger boarding
bridges of a kind used
in airports [8479 71
00] and other [8479 79
00].
22. Transmission
shafts
(including cam shafts
and crank shafts) and
cranks; bearing
housings and plain
shaft bearings; gears
and gearing; ball or
roller screws; gear
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
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N

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hes, envelopes or
similar packings;
mechanical
[8484]
seals
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
172
12%
18%
28%
combs,
extruding
nipples, shuttles,
healds and heald
frames,
hosiery
needles)
29. 8449 Machinery for
the manufacture or
finishing of felt or
nonwovens in the
piece or in shapes,
including machinery
for making felt hats;
blocks for making
hats.
30.8451
Machinery
(other than machines
of heading 8450) for
washing, cleaning,
wringing, drying,
ironing, pressing
(including fusing
presses), bleaching,
dressing,
dyeing,
finishing, coating or
impregnating textile
yarns, fabrics or
made up textile
articles and machines
for applying the paste
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
to the base fabric or
other support used in
the manufacture of
floor coveri

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ining electrical
connectors,
insulators, coils,
contacts or other
electrical features not
specified or included
elsewhere in this
chapter [8487]
174
28%
S.
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
Chapter
Nil
5%
12%
18%
28%
85. 85
(Electrical
machinery and
equipment and
parts thereof;
sound
recorders
and re-producers,
television image
and
sound
recorders and
reproducers, and
parts
and
accessories of
such articles)
energy 1. Telephones for All goods not specified 1. Static converters (for
1. Renewable
devices &
spare
parts for their
manufacture
a) Bio-gas plant
b) Solar power
c)
based devices
Solar power
generating
system
d) Wind
mills
and
wind
operated
electricity
cellular networks or
for other wireless
networks [8517] and
parts for their
manufacture.
example, rectifiers)
and inductors [8504]
2. Primary cells and
batteries
elsewhere.
1. Electric motors and
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contained electric
motor [8510]
Electrical ignition or
starting equipment of
a kind used for spark-
175
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
176
28%
compression-ignition
12%
18%
5. Industrial
or
ignition
laboratory electric
furnaces and ovens
(including
those
functioning
by
induction
or
or
or
dielectric loss); other
industrial
laboratory equipment
for the heat treatment
of materials by
induction
dielectric loss [8514]
6. Electric (including
electrically heated
gas), laser or other
light or photo beam,
ultrasonic, electron
beam, magnetic pulse
or plasma arc
soldering, brazing or
welding machines
and
apparatus,
whether or not
capable of cutting;
electric machines and
apparatus for hot
spraying of metals or
cermets [8515]
or
internal combustion
engines (for example,
ignition magnetos,
magneto-dynamos,
ignition
coils,
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glow plu

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storage
“smart
cards” and other
media for the
recording of sound or
of other phenomena,
whether or not
recorded, including
matrices and masters
for the production of
dry
accumulators,
batteries,
magnetos), other than
lighting equipment of
heading 8512 [8513]
10. Electric instantaneous
or
storage water
heaters and immersion
heaters; electric space
heating apparatus and
soil heating apparatus;
electrothermic hair-
dressing apparatus (for
example, hair dryers,
hair curlers, curling
tong heaters) and hand
dryers;
electric
smoothing irons; other
electro-thermic
appliances of a kind
used for domestic
purposes;
electric
heating resistors, other
than those of heading
8545 [8516]
11. ISDN System[8517 69
10], ISDN Terminal
Adaptor [8517 69 20],
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
discs, but excluding
products of Chapter
Blank in
37.
10.8524
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Transmission
or
apparatus for radio-
broadcasting
television, whether or
not incorporating
178
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
179
12%
18%
apparatus of heading
8535, 8536 or 8537.
16.8540 Thermionic,
cold cathode or
photo-cathode valves
and tubes (for
example, vacuum or
vapour or gas filled
valves and tubes,
mercury
arc
rectifying valves and
tubes, cathode-ray
tubes,
television
camera tubes).
17.8541
Diodes,
transistors
and
similar
semi-
conductor devices;
photosensitive semi-
conductor devices;
including photo
voltaic cells, whether
or not assembled in
modules or made up
into panels; light-
emitting diodes
(led); mounted piezo-
electric crystals”;
28%
reception apparatus or
sound recording or
reproducing
apparatus; television
cameras,
digital
cameras and video
cameras recorders
[8525]
aid
17. Radar apparatus, radio
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of primary cells,
primary batteries and
electric
accumulators; spent
primary cells, spent
primary batteries and
spent
electric
accumulators;
safety or traffic
control equipment for
railways, tramways,
roads,
inland
waterways,
facilities,
parking
port
installations
or
airfields (other than
those of heading 8608)
[8530]
electrical parts of 22. Electric sound or
machinery
or
apparatus,
not
specified or included
elsewhere in this
Chapter.
visual signalling
apparatus
(for
example, bells, sirens,
indicator panels,
burglar or fire alarms),
other than those of
180
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
181
12%
18%
28%
heading 8512 or 8530
[8531]
23. Electrical apparatus
for switching or
protecting electrical
circuits, or for making
connections to or in
electrical circuits (for
example, switches,
relays, fuses, surge
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s under 8545
2000 and goods under
8545 (including arc
lamp carbon and
battery carbon) [8545]
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
18%
86. 86
[Railway
or
All goods not specified
elsewhere, [5% with no
refund of
accumulation]
ITC
tramway
locomotives,
rolling-stocks and
parts thereof;
1. 8601
Rail
railway
or
locomotives
tramway
track
powered from
an
fixtures
and
external source of
1. Refrigerated
containers [8609]
2. Containers (including
containers for the
transport of fluids)
specially designed
and equipped for
carriage by one or
183
28%
or
29. Insulating fittings for
electrical machines,
appliances
equipment, being
fittings wholly of
insulating material
apart from any minor
components of metal
(for example, threaded
sockets) incorporated
during moulding
solely for the purposes
of assembly, other
than insulators of
heading
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85

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May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
5. 8605 Railway or
tramway passenger
coaches, not self-
propelled; luggage
vans, post office
coaches and other
special purpose
railway or tramway
coaches, not self-
propelled (excluding
those of heading
8604).
6. 8606 Railway or
tramway goods vans
and wagons, not
self-propelled.
7. 8607
Parts of
railway or tramway
locomotives
or
rolling-stock; such
as Bogies, bissel-
bogies, axles and
wheels, and parts
thereof.
8. 8608 Railway or
tramway
track
fixtures and fittings;
mechanical
(including electro-
185
12%
18%
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
mechanical)
signalling, safety or
traffic
equipment
control
for
railways, tramways,
roads,
inland
waterways, parking
facilities,
installations
port
or
12%
18%
28%
87. 87
(Vehicles other
than railway or
tramway rolling-
stocks, and parts
and accessories
the

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Nil
No.
5%
12%
cycles (including
delivery tricycles),
not motorised, of
8712 [8714]
5. Self-loading or self-
unloading trailers for
agricultural purposes
[87162000]
6. Hand propelled
vehicles (e.g. hand
carts, rickshaws and
the like); animal
drawn
[8716 80]
vehicles
18%
28%
cars [other than Cars
for
physically
handicapped persons].
3. 8704
vehicles
Motor
for the
transport of goods
[other
than
Refrigerated motor
vehicles].
4. 8705 Special
motor
purpose
vehicles, other than
those principally
designed for the
transport of persons or
goods (for example,
breakdown lorries,
crane lorries, fire
fighting vehicles,
concrete-mixer lorries,
road sweeper lorries,
spraying
mobile
lorries,
workshops,
187
mobile
unit)
radiological
5. 8706 Chassis fitted
with engines, for the
motor vehicles of
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
188
12%
18%

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by
carriages and parts
thereof.
13. 8716 Trailers and
semi-trailers; other
vehicles,
not
mechanically
propelled;
parts
thereof [other
than
Self-loading or self-
unloading trailers for
agricultural purposes,
and Hand propelled
vehicles (e.g. hand
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
88.
88
(Aircraft;
spacecraft
and
parts thereof)
89.
89
(Ships, boats and
floating
structures)
1. Spacecraft
(including
satellites) and
suborbital and
spacecraft
5%
example,
1. 8802 Other aircraft
(for
helicopters,
aeroplanes), other
than those for
personal use
launch vehicles
[8802 60 00]
2.
8803

Parts of
goods of heading
of
8802
2. 8803 Parts of
goods
heading 8801
All goods not specified
elsewhere.
1. 8901
ships,
Cruise
excursion
boats, ferry-boats,
cargo ships, barges
12%
18%
1. Balloons
and
dirigibles, gliders and
other
aircraft [8801].
2. Parachutes

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ls, fire-floats,
dredgers, floating
cranes and other
vessels
navigability
the
of
which is subsidiary
to their main
function; floating
docks; floating or
submersible drilling
or
platforms.
5. 8906
production
Other
vessels,
warships
including
and
191
28%
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
18%
28%
90.
90
(Optical,
1. Hearing
[9021].
photographic,
cinematographic,
measuring,
checking,
precision,
medical
or
lifeboats other than
rowing boats.
6. 8907
Other
floating structures
(for example, rafts,
tanks, coffer-dams,
landing-stages,
buoys and beacons).
7. Any chapter – parts
of goods of headings
8901, 8902, 8904,
8905, 8906, 8907
aids 1. Coronary stents and 1. Spectacle lenses,
coronary
systems for use with 2. Blood
stent
contact lens [9001]
cardiac catheters.
2. Artificial kidney
3. Disposable sterilized
dialyzer
microbarrier
glu

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c
(other
than
cinematographic)
cameras; photographic
192
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
18%
Braillers; and (vi) out instruments 2. [9002] Lenses,
Artificial limbs
[9017].
5. Assistive devices, 6. Instruments and
rehabilitation aids
and other goods for
disabled, specified in
List 32 appended to
notification
No.12/2012-
Customs, dated the
17th March, 2012.
appliances used in
medical, surgical,
dental or veterinary
sciences, including
scintigraphic
apparatus, other
electro-medical
apparatus and sight-
testing instruments
[9018].
7. Mechano-therapy
appliances; massage
apparatus;
psychological
aptitude-testing
apparatus; ozone
therapy,
oxygen
therapy,
aerosol
therapy, artificial
prisms, mirrors and
other
optical
elements, of any
material, mounted, 4.
being parts of or
fittings
instruments
for
or
apparatus, other than
such elements of
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[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
protective masks
having
neither
mechanical parts nor
replaceable filters
[9020].
9. Orthopaedic
appliances, including
crutches, surgical
belts and trusses;
splints and other
fracture appliances;
artificial parts of the
body; hearing aids
and other appliances
which are worn or
carried, or implanted
18%
28%
of
Chapter;
(for
properties
materials
example, metals,
wood, textiles, paper,
plastics).
6. 9025 Hydrometers
and similar floating
instruments,
thermometers,
and
pyrometers,
barometers,
hygrometers
psychrometers,
recording or not, and
any combination of
these instruments.
in the body, to 7. 9026
compensate for a
defect or disability
[9021].
10. Apparatus based on
the use of X-rays or
of alpha, beta or
gamma radiations,
for
medical,
surgical, dental or
veterinary uses,
including
radiography
or
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control panels and
desks,
examinations
screens,
18%
apparatus of heading
9014, 9015, 9028 or
9032
8. 9027
Instruments and
28%
instruments
appliances.
and
12. [9015] Surveying
(including
photogrammetrical
or
apparatus
physical or chemical
analysis
(for
for
surveying),
hydrographic,
oceanographic,
example,
hydrological,
polarimeters,
refractometers,
meteorological
geophysical
or
spectrometers, gas or
instruments
and
smoke
analysis
apparatus);
instruments
and
apparatus
for
treatment tables,
chairs and the light
[9022].
195
measuring
or
checking viscosity,
for
or
porosity, expansion,
surface tension or the
like; instruments and
appratus
measuring
checking quantities
of heat, sound or light
(including exposure
meters); microtomes
Gas,
9. 9028
liquid or electricity
appliances, excluding
compasses;
rangefinders.
13. [9016] Balances of a
sensitivity of 5 cg or
better, with or without
weights.
14. [9017] Instruments for
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g radiography
or
radiotherapy
apparatus, X-ray tubes
and other X-ray
generators, high
tension generators,
control panels and
desks,
screens,
examinations
treatment
or
tables,
chairs and the light.
16.9023
Instruments,
apparatus and models,
designed
demonstrational
purposes
for
(for
example, in education
or
or
exhibitions),
unsuitable for other
uses.
cosmic or other
ionising radiatioin
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
28%
12.9031 Measuring or
checking
instruments,
appliances
and
machines,
not
specified or included
elsewhere in this
Chapter; profile
projectors.
13.9033 Parts and
accessories
(not
specified or included
elsewhere in this
Chapter)
for
machines,
appliances,
instruments
or
apparatus of Chapter
All goods not specified
elsewhere.
90.
and
1. Braille
[9101, 9102]
watches
1. 9103
Clocks
with watch
movements,
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ith clock or
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
18%
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
199
28%
or
watch movement
synchronous
with
motor
6. 9108
Watch
movements, complete
and assembled
7. 9110 Complete
watch or clock
movements,
unassembled or partly
assembled (movement
sets); incomplete
watch or clock
movements,
assembled; rough
watch or clock
movements
8. 9111
Watch
cases and parts thereof
Clock
9. 9112
cases and cases of a
similar type for other
goods of this chapter,
and parts thereof
10.9113 Watch
straps, watch bands
and watch bracelets,
and parts thereof
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
92.
92
(Musical
instruments; parts
and accessories
of such articles)
1. Indigenous
handmade
musical
instruments
5%
200
12%
18%
28%
11.9114
Other
watch parts].
Al goods not specified
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is
chapter; decoy calls of
all kinds; whistles, call
horns and other
mouth-blown sound
signalling instruments
8. 9209 Parts (for
example, mechanisms
for musical boxes) and
accessories
(for
example, cards, discs
201
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
93.
93
(Arms
and
ammunition;
parts
and
accessories
thereof)
5%
202
12%
18%
28%
and
rolls
for
mechanical
of
instruments)
musical instruments;
metronomes, tuning
forks and pitch pipes
of all kinds.]
All goods not specified 1. 9302 Revolvers and
elsewhere
pistols, other than
1. Military
other
weapons
than
revolvers, pistols
[9301].
2. 9303
Other
firearms and similar
devices
which
operate by the firing
of an explosive
charge (for example,
sporting shotguns and
rifles,
loading
muzzle-
firearms,
very pistols and other
devices designed to
project only signal
flares, pistols and
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ressure
lantern [9405 50 31]
lanterns
gas
supports,
cushions
and
similar stuffed
furnishings;
lamps
and
lighting fittings,
not elsewhere
specified
or
2. Parts of kerosene
pressure
including
mantles [9405 91 00,
9405 92 00 or 9405
99.00]
components thereof
[9405, 9405 50 31].
2. LED lights or
fixtures including
LED lamps [9405].
3. LED (light emitting
diode) driver and
MCPCB (Metal Core
Printed
1. Hurricane lanterns,
Kerosene lamp/
lantern, petromax,
glass
1. Medical,
surgical, All goods not specified
dental or veterinary elsewhere.
furniture
(for
chimney,
example, operating 1. 9401
Seats
accessories
&
tables, examination
(other than those of
tables, hospital beds
heading
9402),
with
mechanical
whether or
not
fittings, dentists'
chairs);
barbers'
convertible into beds,
and parts thereof.
chairs and similar 2.
chairs,
having
9403
Other
furniture and parts
4. Coir
included;
illuminated signs,
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luminated name-
plates and the like,
having a permanently
fixed light source, and
parts thereof not
elsewhere specified or
included.
95.
95
(Toys, games and
sports requisites;
parts
accessories
thereof)
and
1. Sports goods other 1. Electronic Toys like All goods not specified
than articles and
equipments for
general physical
exercise [9506]
2. Toys like tricycles,
scooters, pedal cars
etc. (including parts
and accessories
thereof) [other than
electronic toys]
[9503].
tricycles, scooters, elsewhere.
pedal cars etc.
(including parts and 1. 9501, 9502 – Balnk in
accessories thereof)
Tariff.
2. 9504
[9503].
Video
games consoles and
Machines
3. 9505 Festive, carnival
or other entertainment
articles,
including
205
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
3. Fishing rods, fishing
hooks, and other line
fishing tackle; fish
landing nets, etc.
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S.
No.
Chapter
Nil
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
5%
12%
3. Pencils,
pastels,
charcoals, writing or
crayons,
drawing
2.
drawing chalks and
tailor's chalk [9609].
towels,
sanitary
or
4. Sanitary
tampons,
napkins, clinical
diapers [9619 all
goods].
18%
Brushes
2100, 9606 22 00,
9606 29, 9606 30].
9603
(including brushes
constituting parts of
machines, appliances
28%
and
mother-of-pearl
other animal carving
material, and articles
of these materials
(including articles
obtained by moulding)
vehicles), 2. 9602
handoperated
mechanical
floor
not
sweepers,
motorised, mops and
feather dusters;
prepared knots and
tufts for broom or
brush making; paint
pads and rollers;
squeegees (other than
roller squeegees)
3. 9604 Hand
sieves and hand
riddles
4. 9605
Travel
sets for personal
toilet, sewing or shoe
or clothes cleaning
5. 9607 Slide fasteners
and parts thereof.
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operating in the hand;
hand-operated
composing sticks and
hand printing sets
incorporating
such
4.
composing sticks
9613 Cigarette lighters
5.
and other lighters,
whether or
mechanical
not
or
electrical, and parts
thereof other than
flints and wicks
9614 Smoking pipes
(including pipe bowls)
and cigar or cigarette
holders, and parts
thereof
Monopods, bipods, 6. 9616
Scent
tripods and similar sprays and similar
articles.
toilet sprays, and
mounts and heads
therefor; powder-puffs
and pads for the
application
cosmetics or toilet
preparations
of
208
GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
[As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
97. 97
(Works of art,
collectors' piece
and antiques)
5%
12%
All goods.
1. 9701
Paintings,
drawings
and
pastels, executed
entirely by hand,
other than drawings
of heading 4906 and
other than hand-
painted or hand-
decorated
manufactured
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h May, 2017]
S.
Chapter
Nil
No.
5%
12%
6. 9706 Antiques
98. 98
9803
Passenger 1. 9804
(Project imports, baggage
laboratory
Specified 1.
Drugs and medicines
[i.e. List, 1 of
chemicals,
notification
passengers'
No.12/2012-Central
baggage,
Excise,
dated
personal
17.03.2012 and List
importation, ship
stores)
3, 4 of notification
No.12/2012-
Customs,
dated
17.03.2012]
intended
personal use.
of an age exceeding
18%
28%
one hundred years.]
medicines
9804 Other Drugs All goods.
and
intended for personal 1. 9801 All items of
use.
machinery including
1. 9804 All dutiable
articles intended for
personal use
prime
movers,
instruments,
apparatus
and
appliances,
control
gear and transmission
equipment, auxiliary
for
equipment (including
those required for
research and
development
as
all
purposes, testing and
quality control), as
well
components (whether
finished or not) or
raw materials for the
manufacture of the
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GST Compensation Cess Rates for different supplies [As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]

GST Compensation Cess Rates for different supplies [As per discussions in the GST Council Meeting held on 18th May, 2017]
GST
Dated:- 19-5-2017

The fitment of rates of goods were discussed today during the 14th GST Council meeting held at Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. The Council has broadly approved the rates of GST Compensation Cess to be levied on certain goods. The information is being uploaded immediately after the GST Council's decision and it will be subject to further vetting during which the list may undergo some changes.
S. No.
Description of supply
Tariff item, heading, sub-heading, Chapter, of goods or service, as the case may be
Rate for GST Compensation Cess
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
1.
Pan Masala
2106 90

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ilter
14.
Not exceeding 65 mm
2402 20 10
5% + ₹ 1591 per thousand
15.
Exceeding 65 mm but not 70 mm
2402 20 20
5% + ₹ 2876 per thousand
16.
Filter
17.
Not exceeding 65 mm
2402 20 30
5% + ₹ 1591 per thousand
18.
Exceeding 65 mm but not 70 mm
2402 20 40
5% + ₹ 2126 per thousand
19.
Exceeding 70 mm but not 75 mm
2402 20 50
5% + ₹ 2876 per thousand
20.
Others
2402 20 90
5% + ₹ 4170 per thousand
Other tobacco products
21.
Cigar and cheroots
2402 10 10
21% or ₹ 4170 per thousand, whichever is higher
22.
Cigarillos
2402 10 20
21% or ₹ 4170 per thousand, whichever is higher
23.
Cigarettes of tobacco substitutes
2402 90 10
Rs.4006 per thousand
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bacco, bearing a brand name
2403 91 00
72%
33.
Preparations containing chewing tobacco
2403 99 20
72%
34.
Snuff
2403 99 40
72%
35.
Preparations containing snuff
2403 99 50
72%
36.
Tobacco extracts and essence bearing a brand name
2403 99 60
72%
37.
Tobacco extracts and essence not bearing a brand name
2403 99 60
65%
38.
Cut tobacco
2403 99 70
20%
39.
All goods, other than pan masala containing tobacco 'gutkha', bearing a brand name
2403 99 90
96%
40.
All goods, other than pan masala containing tobacco 'gutkha', not bearing a brand name
2403 99 90
89%
Others
41.
Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal.
2701
Rs.400 per tonne
42.
Lignite, wheth

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INTERPRETATION OF CENTRAL GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (CGST) ACT (PART-6)(Meaning of Important Terms)

INTERPRETATION OF CENTRAL GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (CGST) ACT (PART-6)(Meaning of Important Terms)
By: – Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal
Goods and Services Tax – GST
Dated:- 19-5-2017

This part of the series contains meanings of certain terms covered in Section 2 of the CGST Act, 2017. These are Credit Note, Debit Note, Deemed Exports, Document, Electronic Commerce, Electronic Commerce Operator, Exempt Supplyand Fixed Establishment.
Credit Note [Section 2(37)]
'Credit note' means a document issued by a registered person under sub-section (1) of section 34. Accordingly, Credit note has to be issued by taxable person who had issued a tax invoice for supply of any goods and/or services. Credit note should contain prescribed particulars.
Credit note has to be issued :
* where tax invoice has charged excess value and/or excess tax than required,
* where goods supplied are returned by recipient.
* Where services supplied are found to be deficient.
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to settle the correct amount of value and tax.
Deemed Exports [Section 2(39)]
'Deemed exports' means such supplies of goods as may be notified under section 147.
For a transaction of supply of goods, to be covered under the scope of 'deemed exports', following conditions ought to be satisfied:
* to be notified by the Central Government/State Government on the recommendation of the GST Council.
* transactions should be those in which the goods supplied do not leave India, and
* payment for such supplies is received either in Indian Rupees or in convertible foreign exchange.
Example of such deemed exports could be transactions in relation to Special Economic Zones (SEZs). This deeming provision will not apply to supply of services.
Document [Section 2(41)]
'Document' includes written or printed record of any sort and electronic record as defined in clause (t) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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ans any person who owns, operates or manages digital or electronic facility or platform for electronic commerce. For example, Flipkart, Amazon, Uber cab, Ola cab.
Thus, an E-commerce operators should:
* own, operate or manage any electronic platform
* facilitate the supply of goods and / or services,
* provide services to others or on behalf of others
Examples of e-commerce operators are Amazon, Flipkart or Paytm etc. The orders for goods and services are booked on such platforms and these platforms also receive the payment. Such orders in turn may be supplied by different suppliers and payment to them is made by e-commerce operator. There are different business models under e-commerce.
Exempt Supply [Section 2(47)]
'Exempt supply' means supply of any goods or services or both which attracts nil rate of tax or which may be wholly exempt from tax under section 11, or under section 6 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, and includes non-taxable supply.
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Minutes of the 14th GST Council Meeting held on 18 and 19 May 2017

Minutes of the 14th GST Council Meeting held on 18 and 19 May 2017
14th GST Council Meeting Dated:- 19-5-2017 GST Council – Minutes
GST
Minutes of the 14th GST Council Meeting held on 18 and 19 May 2017
The fourteenth meeting of the GST Council (hereinafter referred to as 'the Council') was held on 18 and 19 May 2017 in Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC), Srinagar under the Chairpersonship of the Hon'ble Union Finance Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley. The list of the Hon'ble Members of the Council who attended the meeting is at Annexure 1. The list of officers of the Centre, the States, the GST Council and the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) who attended the meeting is at Annexure 2.
2. The following agenda items were listed for discussion in the 14th Meeting of the Council-
1. Confirmation of the Minutes of the 13th GST Council Meeting held on 31 March 2017
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item with the permission of the Chairperson
11. Date of the next meeting of the GST Council
3.1. The Hon'ble Chairperson welcomed all the Members to the Council Meeting. He conveyed the sad news that Shri Anil Madhav Dave, the Union Minister for Environment had passed away on 18 May, 2017. The Hon'ble Members of the Council observed one-minute silence in memory of the departed soul.
3.2. At the start of the proceedings, the Hon'ble Chairperson placed on record his profuse thanks to Dr. Haseeb A. Drabu, the Hon'ble Finance Minister of Jammu & Kashmir and all his colleagues for the outstanding arrangements for the Meeting. He observed that this had set at rest any lurking doubts regarding the environment in the State and the feasibility of holding the Council meeting in Srinagar. He added that all participants were surprised and happy to find normalcy in Sri nagar. The Hon'ble Minister from Jammu & Kashmir thanked the Council for accepting their invitation to hos

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ise duty despite the fact that 32% of the total Central Excise collection was being devolved to the States. He added that since devolution of Central taxes in the divisible pool to the States had been enhanced to 42%, the liability of States to reimburse the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) collected in the GST regime should at best be limited to 10%. The Secretary to the Council (hereinafter referred to as the Secretary) recalled that in the 2nd meeting of the Council, it was decided that if the Central Government continued with the present areabased exemption scheme, it shall reimburse only 58% of the total CGST collected from the eligible industries due to the fact that only 58% of the CGST revenue shall remain in the onsolidated Fund of India and that the remaining 42% shall be devolved to the States. He stated that if any Value Added Tax (VAT) exemption was given to such units, the State concerned could reimburse this tax amount collected as State Goods and Services Tax (SGST

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overnment was not obliged to continue with the same in the GST regime. He added that presently, the discussion was limited to the Minutes of the last Council meeting and enquired whether the version of the Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand recorded therein required any modification. The Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand did not propose any modification to his version recorded in the Minutes.
5. In view of the above discussion, for Agenda item 1, the Council decided to adopt the Minutes of the 13th Meeting of the Council without any changes.
Agenda Item 2: Rate of interest for delayed payment of tax by the taxpayer and delayed refund by the Government to the taxpayer:
6. Introducing this Agenda item, the Secretary stated that Section 50(1) and Section 50(3) of the CGST Act and the SGST Acts provided for an upper ceiling of rate of interest of 18% and 24% respectively to be paid by the taxpayer in specified circumstances. He further stated that Section 56 of the CGST Act and t

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hat the rate of interest should be simple interest per annum and should be the same as the prescribed upper ceiling of interest rates under Sections 50(1) (18%), 50(3) (24%), 54(12) (6%), and 56 (6% for the main Section and 9% for the proviso to Section 56) of the CGST Act and the SGST Acts and the same would be made applicable under the IGST Act under corresponding circumstances. He suggested that the Council could agree to this suggestion and approve rates of simple interest per annum at the upper prescribed ceilings under the various Sections. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
7. For agenda item 2, the Council approved the following rates of simple interest per annum for the delayed payment of tax by the taxpayer and the delayed refund by the Government to the taxpayer: –
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approved by the Council
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Section 50 (1) of the CGST Act/ SGST Acts
and under corresponding circumstances in
the IGST Act (Section 20)
18%
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ade through him by other suppliers and to pay the same to the Government by the 10th of the following month of the collection. He stated that this provision was essentially meant to create an audit trail for a supplier who made supplies through the electronic platform of others. He stated that this agenda item was discussed during the meeting of officers of the States and the Centre held in Srinagar on 17 May, 2017 and that there was a broad agreement that the rate of TCS under Section 52(1) of the CGST Act and the SGST Acts could be 0.5% under each Act and 1 % under the second proviso to Section 20 of the IGST Act. He suggested that the Council might approve these rates of TCS. The Council approved this suggestion.
8.2. For agenda item 3, the Council approved the following rates for Tax Collection at Source (TCS) by Electronic Commerce Operators (e-operators):
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Rate of TCS approved by
the Council
1
Section 52 (1) of the CGST Act and the SGST Acts
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n,
payment of tax, furnishing of returns, computation and settlement of integrated tax, electronic way bill and for carrying out such other functions and for such purposes as may be prescribed. ”
9.2. The Secretary proposed that the Council might approve to issue a notification to the effect that www.gst.gov.in shall be the Common Goods and Services Tax Electronic Portal specified under Section 146 of the CGST (which would also be applicable to the IGST Act by virtue of Section 20 of the IGST Act) and the SGST Acts, and Section 21 of the UTGST Act and that this website was being managed by the Goods and Services Tax Network on behalf of the Government. The Council approved this proposal.
9.3. For agenda item 4, the Council approved the proposal to issue a notification that www.gst.gov.in shall be the Common Goods and Services Tax Electronic Portal specified under Section 146 of the CGST and the SGST Acts and Section 21 of the UTGST Act, which is being managed by the Goods and Servic

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am (PMT) comprising officers from the Centre, States and the GST Council. GST Council Secretariat shall act as the project management office of the project GST. It was proposed to create eight Standing Committees to look after various aspects of the project. Each Committee shall have two Convenors, one each from the Centre and State. Each Committee would be expected to identify steps to be taken in their area of responsibility and to provide a blue-print for step wise action to be undertaken with target dates. This would lead to uniformity and clarity regarding actions to be taken by the respective revenue administrations and the expected time-lines for the same.
The Convenors of the Committee shall be the Nodal officers to give inputs to the Project Management Team on issues relating to their area of responsibility. The decisions could be taken by the individual Standing Committees to the extent possible, and where necessary, at the level of the PMT. PMT might place issues of importa

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rks
(c) Single interface Committee
(i) Coordinating migration and verification of past credit
(ii) Rules for single interface including in the IGST in coordination with Law Committee
(iii) State-wise coordination teams for assigning taxpayers
(iv) Any other administrative issue needing resolution at the State level
(d) Fitment Committee
(i) Recommending rates of taxes on all commodities and services
(ii) Recommending interest rates under various Sections and Rules
(iii) Recommending Composition rates
(iv) Recommending any other rate provided in Act or Rules
(v) Examining all representations of trade on rate and other issues
(e) Publicity and Outreach Committee
(i) Publicity in print, electronic and social media
(ii) Outreaching taxpayers
(iii) Circulating publicity material for uniformity of messaging
(iv) Publicity in vernacular media particularly on issues such as cascading of taxes, benefits of GST, anti-profiteering etc.
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hese sectors, Guidance Notes might also be required to be issued, including in regional languages. He stated that the Sectoral Groups could be constituted for the following sectors: –
(i) Banking, Financial and Insurance Sector
(ii) Telecommunication
(iii) Exports including EOUs and SEZs
(iv) IT/ITES
(v) Transport and Logistics
(vi) Textiles
(vii) MSMEs, includingjob work
(viii) Oil and Gas (upstream and downstream)
(ix) Gems and Jewellery
(x) Services received and provided by the Government
(xi) Food Processing Sector
(xii) E-commerce
(xiii) Big Infrastructure (Airport, Sea port- including MRO)
(xiv) Travel and Tourism
(xv) Handicrafts (Exports)
(xvi) Media and Entertainment
(xvii) Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
10.5. The Secretary further informed that in the agenda note circulated by the Council for this agenda item, 17 sectors were identified for sectoral analysis and that during the meeting of the officers of the Centre and the States held on 17 May,

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at sufficiently senior level. He stated that during the meeting of the officers of the Centre and the States held on 17 May, 2017 in Srinagar, it was suggested that there should be one member from each of the four zones of the country and that in this view, there should be four members from the States in the PMT. The Council agreed to this suggestion. As regards the constitution of the various Committees, the Secretary informed that on the suggestions received, the Council had tentatively constituted the Committees. He stated that while the Convenors of the Committees had been identified, the States could give names for inclusion as members in various Committees. He further observed that these Committees would be vested more with responsibility rather than authority and that decisions would lie with the Council. He stated that the PMT could take quick decisions on the basis of recommendations of the relevant Committee and that these Committees would need to meet very often. He stated t

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esirous of becoming members of various Committees should give the name of the officers in writing to the Council. The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala stated that the decisions of the PMT should be circulated to the Council. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
10.8. For agenda item 5, the Council approved the following:
(i) A 3-tier structure for Project Management ofGST consisting of the office of the Revenue Secretary, a Project Management Team called GST Implementation Committee (4 officers from States, 4 from the Centre and 1 from GST Council) and eight Standing Committees. In addition, there shall be 18 Sector Groups (including one on Mining Sector).
(ii) To authorize the Chairperson, GST Council, to constitute the GST Implementation Committee and other Standing Committees and the Sectoral Working Groups after incorporating further nominations received from the States and carry out changes in scope and nomenclature of Committees/Groups, wherever required.
(iii) To include P

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Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers may, post amendment, refer to GST Council. He further added that in place of “Ex-officio Member Secretary, EC”, Clause 48 should read as “Ex-officio Additional Secretary, GST Council”. He stated that in view of this, it was proposed that Additional Secretary, GST Council may be nominated as Ex-Officio Director on the Board of GSTN to replace Shri Satish Chandra. The Council approved the proposal.
11.2. For agenda item 6, the Council approved the nomination of Additional Secretary, GST Council as ex-officio Director on the Board of GSTN in place of the erstwhile Member Secretary, Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers (EC).
Agenda Item 7: Approval of mechanism to split the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges between the Centre and the States:
12.1. Introducing this agenda item, the Secretary stated that to incentivize the use of digital economy, the Government of India had decided to bear the applicable Merchant Discount Rate (

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edit. He stated that similarly, SGST collected by States would also be used for payment of IGST due to cross-utilization. He expressed that a cleaner way of sharing ofMDR charges between the Government of India and the States might be to split these charges, in proportion of the final GST revenues accruing to the States and the Centre after cross-utilization and apportionment processes are finalized.
12.2. The Secretary informed that this agenda item was discussed during the meeting of the officers in Sri nagar on 17 May, 2017 and some States like Haryana, Assam, Rajasthan and Odisha had not favoured putting additional financial burden on the State Governments. He further stated that some States desired to know the likely financial burden on the State Governments if the MDR charges for payment of GST by debit card up to Rs.l lakh was to be borne by the State Governments and the Central Government. He also informed that Uttar Pradesh had suggested that the Central Government could bear

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ion, a fresh agenda item could be introduced on a later date. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
12.3. For agenda item 7, the Council approved to defer the agenda item for consideration and to consider it on a later date after ascertaining the likely financial implications of this proposal.
Agenda item 8: Approval of amendments to the following Draft GST Rules and related Forms: (i) Registration; (ii) Return; (iii) Payment; (iv) Refund; (v) Invoice, Debit/Credit Note; (vi) Input Tax Credit; (vii) Valuation; (viii) Transitional Provisions; and (ix) Composition:
13.1. Introducing this agenda item, the Secretary recalled that the Council had approved nine GST Rules during its 13th Meeting held on 31 March, 2017 and that these were put in the public domain and sent to the States. He informed that before the 14th Council meeting, the Law Committee could finalise seven GST Rules and the connected Forms, which were circulated as Volume-2A and Volume-2Bof the Agenda Note respectively. H

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REG RULE 12.
(ii) The word “Registration. 16” may be replaced with “Registration17″  in Rule 1 of Composition Rules.
(iii) Under Rule 7(1) (i) of the ITC Rules, {'F' is the total turnover of the registered person during the tax period”} may be replaced with {'F' is the total turnover in the State of the registered person during the tax period”} to bring in more clarity.
13.2. Starting the discussion on this agenda item, the Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand stated that Rule 4 of the Registration Rules provided for separate registration for multiple business verticals within a State and enquired as to what treatment would be given to a trader who sold various items like cloth, sanitary ware, hosiery, etc. when his combined turnover exceeded Rs. 20 lakh. The Secretary stated that the trader would be required to take only one registration and that if he was only making supplies to consumers (B2C), he would not be required to file invoice-wise details. He sta

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ST Rules on Return were taken up for discussion. The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala requested to circulate a note on the scheme of matching of returns under GST. The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala raised another issue as to what mechanism was there to ensure that a vehicle transporting taxable goods interstate was carrying invoice. Commissioner (GST Policy Wing), CBEC, stated that a separate e-way bill Rules would address this issue and that when goods were handed over to the transporter, an e-way bill would be generated. He informed that several comments had been received on the draft e-way bill Rules and after examining them, the Rules on e-way bill would be brought before the Council. The CEO, GSTN, added that where a transport vehicle carried multiple inv?ice for multiple people, a unique code would be generated and this could be checked anywhere on the way. He added that this code could also be accessed on mobile phone and the e-way bill would give details regarding the goods

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re) Code and how the manufacturer of tractor would declare the same. Dr. P.D. Vaghela, Commissioner of Commercial Tax (CCT), Gujarat, clarified that inputs would be accounted separately and ITC would be available on such inputs and the final product (tractor) would be declared separately under a different HSN Code. The Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand also raised the issue of difficulties that job workers for jewellery would face in declaring the HSN Code. The Secretary stated that this issue could be discussed when fitment rate for gold was discussed which was not in the agenda item for this Meeting.
13.4. Shri Somesh Kumar, Principal Secretary (Revenue), Telangana, raised a few questions relating  to the Registration Rules, First, he pointed out that in Rule 9 of the Registration Rules (dealing with  suo moto registration), it was provided that every person to whom a temporary registration had been  granted shall submit an application for registration within 90 d

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lty would  apply, On the third question, he stated that the requirement Of one-year validity period Of a registration  was kept only for those taxable persons who had taken registration voluntarily though they were within  the exemption threshold. On the fourth question, he clarified that physical verification of a registered premises after the grant of registration would be done only in exceptional cases which would be decided by the computer on the basis of risk parameters.
13.5. The Hon'ble Minister from Meghalaya observed that in Rule l(e) of the Tax Invoice Rules, the requirement of recording the name and address of the recipient was only for those transactions where the value of taxable supply was Rs. 50,000 or more and suggested that this value limit should be lowered. The Secretary stated that this issue was discussed earlier during the 13th Council Meeting (held on 31 March, 2017) and it was explained that any reduction in the monetary limit from Rs. 50,000

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ons from the North-Eastern States to buy goods from Silchar or Guwahati. He stated that an exception should be made in the Rules regarding the monetary limit for recording the address of the purchasers in B2C transactions. The Secretary stated that the issue did not relate to the North-Eastern States but to its neighbouring States where such an exception in the relevant Tax Invoice Rules would need to be made. The Hon'ble Minister from Meghalaya stated that the threshold for recording address of the purchaser on the invoice should be reduced from Rs. 50,000 as otherwise smaller States like Meghalaya would lose revenue. The Hon'ble Minister from Bihar stated that different States had different issues and all could not be addressed in the GST Law. He observed that pe ople from Bihar bought blankets from outside the State and Bihar would not get any tax from this transaction if invoice did not have the address of the purchaser on record. The Hon'ble Minister from Meghalaya sta

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ategory States, implementation of this provision in its current form would lead to loss of revenue. The Commissioner (GST Policy Wing), CBEC, stated that a special provision in respect of this Rule would be required in the neighbouring States like West Bengal. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat stated that North-Eastern States were good tourist destinations and they would also get revenue for purchases below Rs. 50,000 by tourists from outside the State. The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala enquired whether a consumer could insist on writing his address on an invoice of value below Rs. 50,000. The Hon'ble Minister from Meghalaya suggested that this requirement should be made compulsory in the Invoice Rules. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh suggested that there should be a provision in the Invoice Rules that the address of the buyer would be recorded in an invoice where the buyer insisted on it. The Secretary suggested that a provision to this

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orded in an invoice where the buyer insists on it.
Agenda Item 9: Approval of the Fitment of goods and services into the various rate slabs:
15.1. Introducing this agenda item, the Secretary stated that in the 4th Council Meeting (held on 3-4 November, 2016), the Council had laid down a set of guiding principles in respect of bands of rates of GST and GST Compensation mechanism and that officers of the Fitment Committee consisting of the Central Government and ten State Governments met three times (for a total of six days) and finalised its recommendations on rates on the basis of these guiding principles. He stated that the Committee had recommended the rates after taking into account the present tax incidence on account of Central Excise, Service Tax and VAT (including cascading on account of these taxes) as well as embedded taxes and the incidence of CST, Octroi, Entry Tax, etc. He added that in certain cases, the Committee had recommended lower/higher GST rates, vis-a-vis the pre

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e recommended continuation of exemptions in the form of IGST exemptions. These cases included Multilateral/Bilateral Commitments [including exemption for goods in transit to the land locked Countries], re-import or re-export cases and passenger facilitation at international Airports.
15.3. He further stated that in the case of services, the Committee largely followed the following principles while recommending the GST rate structure: (a) continuance of exemption for certain services, so as to maintain present tax incidence on services; (b) To suggest broadly the same GST rate for different modes of transportation services, more or less at the present rates [lower than the general standard rate of 18% for services] because the inputs for transportation sector such as fuel, etc. were not in GST; (c) Withdrawal of exemptions in certain cases where such exemptions had been extended because of lack of jurisdiction; (d) Withdrawal of exemption in certain cases, like Works Contract [a compos

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ods, circulated before the Council Meeting) covered about 1211 items at 4-digit HSN classification (total items at 8-digit being about 11,000) and out of these, about 88 items were largely in the exempt List (constituting 7% of the total goods at the 4-digit level), about 173 items were in the 5% List (constituting 14% of the total goods at the 4-digit level), about 200 items were in the 12% List (constituting 17% of the total goods at the 4- digit level), about 521 items were in the 18% List (constituting 43% of the total goods at the 4-digit level) and about 229 items were in the 28% List (constituting 19% of the total goods at the 4-digit level). He further stated that about 81 % of items at 4-digit level would largely be taxed at the rate of 18% or lower and only about 19% of items at the 4-digit level would be taxed at the rate of 28%. He further added that about 60% of the items at the 4-digit level would be covered in the standard rate of 12% and 18% and about 21 % items would b

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dendum to the detailed agenda notes of Agenda Item 9 circulated before the Council Meeting had been discussed during a meeting with the officers of the Centre and the States held on 17 May, 2017 in Srinagar. He added that based on the suggestions agreed upon during the officers' meeting, rates on certain goods/services were proposed to be modified as compared to what was proposed in the original agenda notes and that a 4-page addendum was circulated suggesting these modified rates during the meeting today (enclosed as Annexure 4 to the Minutes).
15.5. Starting the discussion on this agenda item, the Hon'ble Minister from Kerala made a general point that 70% of the VAT revenue came from goods that attracted the VAT rate of 14.5% and that the same weight ofthe goods should have been there for 28% tax slab under GST but this weight was only 20%. He observed that coverage of goods under the exemption list was understandable as it was meant to keep the Consumer Price lndex (CPI) ba

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r limit on which VAT was levied was different in different States. He further stated that there could be additional revenue collection through better compliance by use of lnformation Technology (IT), e-way bill system, etc. He stated that as the present rate structure was loaded against the revenue neutral rate (RNR), one had to be cautious about lowering the rates on State specific goods. He added that the Council would also need to consider how to operationalise the anti-profiteering provisions of the law in order to ensure that Maximum Retail Price (MRP) was reduced for goods which were required to have the MRP label as otherwise it would lead to windfall gains to the corporates.
15.6. The Hon'ble Minister from Jammu & Kashmir stated that the choice lay between elasticity and buoyancy. He suggested that a study could be done to estimate the gains from buoyancy in taxes. He further stated that the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) should prepare a new basket for CPI as the

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T rates low and to put a cap of 18% in the Constitution itself He stated that the whole issue of having a band of tax rates  arose from this concern and there was an effort to reduce the number of goods falling in the band of 28% rate. He further stated that coverage of goods in the 28% rate band had to take account of the current reality, and some of the goods which were considered luxury earlier, were no longer luxury goods, and therefore, kept at 18%. He further stated that the concern regarding fall in revenue due to lowering of rates were legitimate as every Finance Minister needed to balance his budget. He stated that how much would be gained from buoyancy was a judgment call to be taken. Further, there would be additional buoyancy gains due to increased compliance under income tax. He further stated that the Central Government had to be more watchful about revenue as States were protected for five years due to the provision of compensation at the assured rate of growth of 1

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other goods due to introduction of GST. The Hon'ble Minister from Goa stated that the anti-profiteering provision of law should be operationalised. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that it would be useful to highlight those goods on which tax was being reduced under GST and the Council and the Governments could do a media campaign to ensure that the tax reduction was passed on to the consumers.
15.8. The Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand stated that the goods that were not taxed under VAT would be taxed under GST. The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Puducherry stated that the concerns of small States should be addressed in the GST as they might not be able to carry out substantial additional revenue mobilisation. He stated that if compensation was paid every two months, it could affect the developmental activities of the smaller States. The Hon'ble Minister from Tamil Nadu stated that he was happy to see that the goods which were at present exempt both by the Centre and t

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d be discussed in terms offive criteria
namely, (i) revenue impact; (ii) impact on domestic manufacturing; (c) the existing combined rate of tax; (iv) the relevance ofthe product for consumers; and (v) optical perception of GST. The following goods were mentioned Annexure-wise by the Hon'ble Members for discussion: –
Annexure I (List of goods at nil CST rate):
(i) 'Jari booti': The Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand stated that jari booti was presently kept in Annexure II (5% List) and that it should be put in the nil rate category as 67% of jari booti came from the forests of Uttarakhand. The Secretary stated that jari booti was used as herbal medicine, and therefore, it should be taxed. He stated that the Forest Development Corporation would sell jari booti to companies like Dabur which would take input tax credit (ITC) and use it for payment of tax on its final products. The Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand stated that there was no VAT onjari booti in his Stat

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e under Annexure I attracting Nil rate of GST, while suji, put up in unit container and bearing a registered brand name, to be kept under Annexure II at 5% rate.
(iii) 'Dalia': The Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand stated that on the same logic as suji, dalia should also attract nil rate of GST. After discussion, it was agreed that dalia, other than those put up in unit container and bearing a registered brand name, would attract Nil rate of GST and dalia put up in unit container and bearing a registered brand would be taxed at the rate of 5%. This was agreed to by the Council.
(iv) Rusk: The Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand stated that it was not taxed under VAT, and therefore, it should be kept at Nil rate. The Secretary stated that rusk was modified bread, and therefore, it was justified to levy tax at the rate of 5%, as proposed. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
(v) 'Seviyan'(Vermicelli): The Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand suggested that it should a

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biscuits which were mostly used by the poorer sections of the society should be kept in the exempt List. The Secretary stated that value based rate of taxation led to suppression of value and loss of revenue. He suggested that the rate of tax should not be varied on the basis of value of biscuits. After discussion, the Council agreed to discuss this issue separately when they took up discussion on the rate of tax for biscuits.
(ix) Silk yarn, cotton yarn in hank: The Hon'ble Minister from Assam suggested that silk yarn should be kept in the exempted category. The Hon'ble Minister from Karnataka stated that there would be no revenue implication in exempting silk yarn as silk fabrics would be taxed. The Hon'ble Minister from Uttar Pradesh suggested that cotton yarn in hank should be kept in the exempt category. The Hon'ble Chairperson observed that reducing taxes on a large number of products would adversely affect the revenue and that the Governments needed to strike a bala

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t embroidery or zari articles was used in high value textile clothing, and therefore, it was reasonable to tax it at the rate of 5%. He stated that the burden of this tax would be borne by the buyers of these textile articles and not the persons who produced them. The CEA stated that GST was a consumption tax and its incidence would be borne by the consumers, and therefore, it was important to see who were the consumers of the product. The Council agreed not to change the recommended rate for zari at 5%.
(xii) 'Chikan': The Hon'ble Minister from Uttar Pradesh suggested that chikan should be kept under the exempt category. The Secretary stated that though chikan was a local produce, it was largely used by the rich class and when sari and dhoti were proposed to be taxed at the rate of 5%, it would not go down well with the people to exempt chikan products. The Hon'ble Minister from Bihar stated that too many exemptions would lead to problem of misclassification. The Coun

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ussed separately. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
(xiv) Fish net and fish net fabric: The Hon'ble Minister from Andhra Pradesh stated that these goods were used by fishermen, and therefore, should be kept in the exempt category. The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Puducherry and the Hon'ble Minister from Goa supported this proposal. The Hon'ble Minister from Tamil Nadu stated that India had a long coast line and lakhs of fishermen were dependent on fishing for their livelihood and keeping this in mind, Tamil Nadu had presently exempted fish net from VAT. He stated that as ITC would be available, fish net could be taxed at 5%. The CEA stated that fish net had a lot of embedded tax and putting it in exempt category would mean that it would continue to carry the embedded tax whereas the imported goods would be carrying no embedded tax, .making them cheaper. He further stated that if fish net was charged to Nil rate of GST, no lGST could be charged on imported fish net, w

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Manipur also suggested to exempt bamboo matting. The Hon'ble Minister from Tripura suggested that bamboo and bamboo products should be kept under the exempt category. The Secretary stated that the GST rate for these products falling in Chapter 46 was discussed during the meeting of officers of the Centre and the States on 17 May, 2017 in Sri nagar and it was agreed at the officers' level that rather than putting them under exempt category, they could be taxed at the rate of 12% instead of the earlier recommended rate of 18%. He added that this item was included in the addendum circulated in the Council on 18 May 2017 after the meeting of the officers of the Centre and the States in Sri nagar (Annexure 4 of the Minutes). The Council approved the revised proposed rate.
(xvi) Bamboo floor tiles and bamboo panels: Ms. Brahmneet Kaur, CCT, Tripura, stated that bamboo floor tiles and bamboo panels should also be taxed at Nil rate or at the rate applicable for other bamboo products.

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ed that fresh tamarind was already in the exempt category.
(xix) Fertilizers: The Hon'ble Minister from Andhra Pradesh suggested that the fertilizers sold by Primary Agricultural Co-operative Societies should be kept under the exempt category. The Hon'ble Minister from Telangana supported this proposal. The Secretary stated that the raw materials used for making fertilizers were chemicals which were proposed to be taxed at the rate of 18% and exempting
fertilizers would lead to a situation of inverted duty structure leading to large amounts of refund. After discussion, it was agreed to keep fertilizers at the proposed rate of 12%.
(xx) Cotton fabrics, cotton textiles and man-made fabrics: The Hon'ble Minister from Andhra Pradesh suggested that cotton fabrics and man-made fabrics should be kept in the exempt category The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi suggested that cotton fabrics and cotton textiles should be kept in the exempt category. The Hon'ble Deput

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industrial product which required processing and processing industry would get input tax credit which could be passed through if the product was taxed at the rate of 5%. He further pointed out that dry fish sold by fishermen would not attract GST because of very low turnover (below Rs. 10 lakh in Special Category States and Rs. 20 lakh in other States). He further stated that as fish would be transported to the North-Eastern States from other States like Andhra Pradesh, there would be tax on supply of transport services which could also be passed through by keeping a low tax of 5%. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
(xxiii) Indigenous hand-made musical instruments: The Hon'ble Minister from Uttar Pradesh suggested that these goods should be kept under the exempt category. The Secretary stated that the GST rate for these products was discussed during the meeting of officers of the Centre and the States on 17 May, 2017 in Srinagar and it was agreed at the officers' level tha

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d be exempt. Ms. Smaraki Mahapatra, CCT, West Bengal, suggested that cheaper footwear should be taxed at the rate of 5%. The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Puducherry stated that taxation on footwear should be categorised on the basis of their sale price. the Hon'ble Minister from Kerala observed that chappals other than hawai chappals and straps thereof ere proposed to be kept in the 18% rate slab and he proposed that these should be taxed at the rate of 12% and shoes be taxed at the rate of 28%. The Secretary suggested that the tax rate on footwear products should be discussed separately. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
(xxvi) Sago (sabudana): The Hon'ble Minister from Tamil Nadu suggested that sago should be kept under the exempt category. He stated that Tamil Nadu was a large producer of sago whose input was apioca and it was a food product of the common man. He stated that if it was taxed at 5%, the full urden of tax would fall on the common man and this would affect th

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ted that natural honey other than that put up in unit container and bearing a registered brand name might be kept at Nil rate whereas natural honey put up in unit container and bearing a registered brand name might be taxed at 5%. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
(xxviii) Chemical contraceptives: The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi suggested that chemical contraceptives should be exempted from tax. The Secretary stated that the GST rate for this product was discussed during the meeting of officers of the Centre and the States on 17 May, 2017 in Srinagar and it was agreed at the officers' level that instead of the proposed rate of 5%, it could be kept under the exempt category. He stated that this item was covered in the addendum to the GST rate schedule for goods circulated during the Council meeting on 18 May 2017 (Annexure-4 of the Minutes). The Council agreed to this proposed change.
(xxix) Wheel-chair for physically handicapped persons: The Hon'ble Deputy

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t on primary products and that the input tax for farmers should not go up as this would lead to inflation The Chief Minister of Puducherry supported this proposal. The Hon'ble Minister from Karnataka suggested that these goods could be taxed at the rate of 5%. The Secretary stated that there would be embedded input taxes on these products, and therefore, these should be kept at the rate of 12%. He further added that if there was no headline rate ofGST on this product, no IGST could be charged 011 import of similar products and this would put domestic manufacturers at a disadvantage The Hon'ble Minister from Haryana observed that according to their estimates, embedded taxes on these goods would not be more than 3% and that if the cost of local agricultural implements was increased, this would encourage imports. After further discussion, the Council agreed to discuss this issue again.
(xxxii) Hand tools: The Hon'ble Minister from Rajasthan stated that non-electrically opera

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s and diagnostic kits that were kept at 5% rate, which included life-saving and cancer related drugs while all other drugs were proposed to be taxed at the rate of 12%. He stated that as there was tax on intermediate chemicals, the cancer drug industry would not like the final products to be exempted. As regards the proposal to exempt generic medicines, he stated that it would be very difficult to monitor and distinguish the supply of generic and branded medicines, and therefore, both were kept in the 12% rate slab. The Council agreed to keep the rates of tax on drugs as recommended in the agenda notes.
(xxxiii) Kerosene PDS: The Hon'ble Minister from Maharashtra suggested that PDS kerosene should be kept under the exempt category. After discussion, it was agreed that it should continue to be in the 5% rate category.
(xxxiv) Electricity: The Hon'ble Minister from Punjab stated that electricity also needed to be put under the exempted List. The Hon'ble Minister from Karnat

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om tax.
(xxxvi) Assistive devices for disabled: The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala suggested that such devices should be kept in the exempt category. The Secretary stated that this would lead to embedded taxes in he final product and would be harmful for the domestic industry. The Council agreed not to put the assistive devices in the exempt category.
(xxxvii) Kerosene stove: The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister ofGujarat suggested that kerosene stove hould be charged at Nil rate of tax. However, after discussion, Council agreed to keep the tax rate at 12%.
(xxxviii) Areca nut: The Hon'ble Minister from Karnataka stated that fresh areca nut harvested from trees was proposed to be taxed at Nil rate, the dry and processed areca nut was proposed to be taxed at the rate of 12%. He stated that the weighted average of the combined tax incidence today would not be more than 5%. He stated that farmers sold dried areca nut and its rate of tax should not be more than 8% The Hon'ble

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hat resin should be taxed at the rate of 5% instead of the proposed rate of 18% as this was collected by the poorer sections of the society. After discussion, the Council agreed to this suggestion and decided to put :natural gums, resins, etc. in the 5% rate category.
(xl) Tendu leaves: The Hon'ble Minister from Madhya Pradesh suggested that this should be taxed at the rate of 28% and not at 5%. The Secretary suggested that the rate of tax on tendu leaves could be discussed separately along with the rate of tax on bidi. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
(xli) Dried tobacco leaves: The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat suggested that the dried tobacco leaves should be kept in the category of exempt goods instead of at the rate of 5%. After discussion, the Council agreed to levy 5% GST on tobacco leaves under reverse charge.
(xlii) Rubber tyres: The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala suggested that the rate of tax on rubber tyres should be increased from 5% to 12%. T

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be possible to verify this aspect at all stages and this would create disputes at the field level. The Council agreed not to have a separate rate of tax for semi-mechanised safety matches.
(xliv) 'Namkeen' including 'Khakhra': The Hon'ble Minister from Rajasthan stated that namkeen (bhujia) should not be taxed at the rate of 18% and that it should be kept in the 5% category, particularly when 'rasagulla' was to be taxed at the rate of 5%. He added that namkeens sold by multi-national companies could be taxed at a higher rate. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat suggested that the Gujarati namkeen, khakhra, should be kept under the exempt category as it was consumed by common people. The Secretary stated that khakhra was taxable at the same rate as other namkeen which was proposed to be taxed at the rate of 18%. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that the packed namkeen was sold by big brand owners and they should be taxed whereas the smaller su

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ble Minister from Meghalaya and the Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat stated that any increase in the rate of tax on clay bricks would adversely affect the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Scheme. The Council agreed to keep the tax rate of clay bricks at 5%.
(xlvi) Fly ash bricks: The Hon'ble Minister from Bihar suggested that fly ash bricks should be taxed at the rate of 5% as encouraging use of such bricks would help save land in thermal power plants. The Secretary stated that the GST rate for this product was discussed during the meeting of officers of the Centre and the States on 17 May, 2017 in Srinagar and it was agreed at the officers' level that instead of the proposed rate of 18%, it could be taxed at the rate of 12%. He stated that this item was covered in the addendum to the GST rate schedule for goods circulated during the Counci I meeting on 18 May 2017 (Annexure-4 of the Minutes). The Council agreed to this proposed change.
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ively for generation of power. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that this would pose challenge for levying the tax. After discussion, the Council agreed not to have a separate classification for coal used captively for generation of power.
Annexure III (List of goods at 12% CST rate):
(xlviii) Plywood and particle board: The Hon'ble Minister from Chhattisgarh stated that plywood and particle board should be kept in the 12% List instead of the presently proposed tax rate of 28%. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Del hi stated that if one wanted to prevent wood to be cut, then boards based on bagasse and fibre should be encouraged. The Secretary explained that only specified boards including bagasse based boards and boards made from agricultural residue were proposed to be taxed at the rate of 12% but other wood based boards and plywood were proposed to be taxed at the rate of 28%. He added that all building materials were proposed to be taxed at the rate of 28%. The Hon&#

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e trees and to use the planks directly. The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala suggested that wood based particle board should be taxed at a lower rate. The Hon'ble Minister from Haryana stated that most of the units in the ply board sector fell under micro and small enterprises with a turnover of less than Rs. 4 crore and were exempt from Central Excise duty upto the turnover of Rs. 1.5 crore. Therefore, the incidence of Central Excise duty at the rate of 12.5% was not applicable on them and as such, taxing them at the rate of 28% was not justifiable and that GSTon ply board at the rate of 18% would be more appropriate. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that tax on these goods was not being imposed for the first time and if the existing combined tax rate was about 30%, it would be reasonable to keep it at 28% but not at 18%. He added that ifsuch a steep reduction was made on one item, the Members should also suggest an item on which GST rate could be increased correspondingly. Afte

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Hon'ble Minister from Kerala suggested that mobile phone should be taxed at the rate of 18%. The Secretary stated that the present combined incidence of tax on mobile phone was around 14% and therefore, it was put in the rate slab of 12%. He stated that this product was also very important for the Digital India Programme. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated that there was already a large grey market for mobile phones, and therefore, tax on it should not be too high. The Hon'ble Chairperson observed that this product was now being substantially manufactured in India. The Council agreed to keep the rate of tax on mobile phone at 12%.
(Ii) Coconut water: The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Puducherry stated that tender coconut water should not be taxed at the rate of 12%. Shri Alok Shukla, Joint  Secretary (TRU-I), CBEC, clarified that only packaged tender coconut water was proposed to be taxed at the rate of 12%. The Secretary suggested that tender coconut water

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uncil approved the rate of 5% as proposed in the agenda notes.
Annexure IV (List of goods at 18% GST rate):
(Iv) Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved: The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated that this entry appearing at Sl.No.8 of Annexure IV attracting a tax rate of 18% had an overlapping entry at Sl.No.4 at Annexure II attracting a rate of 5% (edible fruit and nuts, in frozen state or preserved) and that this could lead to evasion of tax. He suggested to rectify it by deleting the word 'preserved' from the entry at Sl.No.4 at Annexure II. The Joint Secretary (TRUI), CBEC, explained that entry at Sl.No.8 of Annexure IV referred to fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved, by vinegar or acetic acid which fell under Chapter 20 whereas the entry at Sl.No.4 of Annexure II referred to fruits and nuts provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas or in brine) which fell under Chapter

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Helmet: The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Puducherry suggested that the rate of tax for helmet should be reduced to 5% as it was very important for road safety. The Secretary stated that as per the combined incidence of tax, this product should be in the 28% rate slab, but as the inputs for this product would be taxed at the rate of 18%, the rate of tax on helmet was already proposed to be kept at 18%. The Council agreed to keep the rate of tax for helmet at 18%.
(lx) Information Technology (IT) products: The Hon'ble Minister from Karnataka stated that IT products were facing global competition and NASSCOM had suggested that the IT industry would be better off it IT products in India were classified as per the ITA-I (Information Technology Agreement-I) of the WTO. The Joint Secretary (TRU-I), CBEC, stated that the basis of classification of IT products under ITA-I and GST was the same, namely, the HSN and 217 items spread over HSN Chapters 38 to 90 were covered under the ITA-I ag

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e Hon'ble Minister from Karnataka stated that it was a national aspiration to use recycled products. The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala stated that instead of tax exemption, subsidies could be given to encourage the use of recycled products. The Council agreed not to have a rate differential for recycled products.
(lxii) Sanitary napkins and tampons: The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala suggested that the rate of tax on these products should be reduced to 12%. The Secretary stated that these goods had already been moved to the List of goods under 12% rate slab. The Council agreed to this rate.
(lxiii) Arms and ammunition: The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala stated that the rate on arms and ammunition should be kept in the square bracket. After discussion, the Council agreed to the rate as proposed in the agenda notes (i.e. 18% in Chapter 93).
(Ixiv) Packed and branded cereals: The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala observed that many goods proposed to be exempted from tax were

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be subject to tax. The Hon'ble Minister from Punjab also supported the suggestion to levy tax on packed and branded cereals. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated that even retailers in small shops packed cereals in packages of 1 kg and 2 kg and these should not get taxed. The Hon'ble Minister from Kerala stated that the term 'branded' meant use of a trade mark. The Hon'ble Minister from Jharkhand stated that all branded food should be taxed, as products like branded atta were sold at a high price. The Hon'ble Minister from Maharashtra stated that almost every district had a brand as for instance, there was a brand of Mahakali alta sold by ladies. The CCT, West Bengal, did not support the proposal to tax packed and branded food items. The Hon'ble Minister from Haryana stated that the activity of branding should not be penalised by way of a tax. The Hon'ble Minister from Karnataka stated that the primary grains were also being mostly sold

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le Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated that more and more consumers were moving towards buying packed and branded cereals. The Hon'ble Minister from Haryana suggested that decision on this issue could be postponed to a later date. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
(Ixv) X-ray plates and films: The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat suggested that the rate of tax on x-ray plates and films for medical use should be reduced from 18% to 12% as bulk of these goods were used by Government hospitals. After discussion, the Council agreed to reduce the rate of tax on x-ray plates and films for medical use to 12% while retaining the proposed rate of 18% for x-ray films for other use.
(Ixvi) Stent for heart surgery: The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat suggested that stent for heart surgery should be taxed at the rate of 5%. The Secretary clarified that coronary stent falling under Chapter 90 was already proposed to be taxed at the rate of 5%. The Council approv

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Joint Secretary (TRU-I), CBEC, stated that all cars were proposed to be taxed at the rate of 28% but the rate of compensation cess was proposed to be low for smaller cars. The Council agreed to this suggestion.
(Ixx) Cement: The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated that as real estate was kept out of GST, to help this sector, the rate of cement should be in the 18% rate slab. The Joint Secretary (TRU-1), CBEC, stated that the existing Excise Duty on cement was 12.5% plus a component of specific rate and VAT at standard rate. Therefore, the rate of tax on cement under GST would be lower than the present combined tax incidence. The Council agreed to keep the rate of tax on cement at 28%.
(Ixxi) Paint: The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated that as real estate was kept out of GST, to help this sector, the rate of paint should be in the 18% rate slab. After discussion, the Council agreed that it should be taxed at the rate of 28%, in line with the present inc

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He further stated that this sector gave large scale employment to people. The Hon'ble Chairperson observed that marble and granite was largely used by rich people. The Hon'ble Minister from Rajasthan stated that there were different grades of marble from high to the low end and it was used by all sections of the society. After discussion, the Council agreed to keep the rate of tax on marble and granite slabs at 28%.
(lxxiv) Motorcycles: The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Puducherry stated that motorcycles were used by poorer and mid-income sections of the society, and therefore, they should be taxed at a lower rate. The Secretary stated that the combined rate of taxation on motorcycles was approximately 31%, and therefore, it was proposed to be taxed at the rate of 28%. The Council agreed to keep the rate of tax on motorcycles at 28%.
(lxxv) Hybrid and Electrically operated cars: The Hon'ble Minister from Karnataka stated that the rate of tax on these cars should be lower

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ty Chief Minister of Gujarat suggested that intra-ocular lens should be kept in lower tax slab.
Rates of GST ComDensation Cess:
16.1. The proposed rate of Compensation Cess for different supplies of goods as contained in Annexure XI of Volume-3 of the detailed agenda notes was taken up for discussion. Introducing this subject, the Secretary stated that the rate of Cess on the varieties of cigarettes and other tobacco products was proposed on the lines of the present Central Excise tariff structure on these products and that the proposed multiple rates on cigarettes was proposed to maintain the existing tax rates.
16.2. Regarding the proposal to charge cess on motor vehicles, the Secretary stated that the present combined incidence of tax on small cars was around 28% and in order to protect revenue, it was proposed to impose a cess of 1% on small petrol cars and 3% on small diesel cars. He suggested that he proposed cess of 1% and 3% on small petrol and diesel hybrid motor vehicles r

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from Haryana stated that some manufacturers might maintain the length of car applicable for lower rate of tax but sell it at a high value and that this would lead to loss of revenue. The Secretary stated that it was not advisable to change the criteria of taxation at this stage and suggested to adopt the criteria as used for excise classification and as recommended by the Fitment Committee. The Council agreed to this proposal.
16.3. The CEA suggested that the rate structure for cess could be rationalised by using certain objective criteria. The Secretary stated that rationalisation could be done at a later date as at this stage, the existing rates of taxes needed to be maintained.
16.4. The Secretary drew attention to page 114 of Volume-3 of the detailed agenda notes where Fitment Committee had recommended to impose cess on high-end motor bikes, say of engine capacity above 500 cc, aircrafts for personal use and yachts. As regards cess on aircrafts for personal use and yachts, the Se

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oms dated 29.3.1958). He suggested that in today's time, such an exemption was not desirable. The Hon'ble Minister from Bihar stated that the IGST exemption for the Vice President of India should be continued. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated that his UT had no objection to continuing with this exemption. The Council approved this exemption as well as the other proposed exemptions/concessions from IGST.
18. For agenda item 9, the Council approved the rates of GST on supply of goods, Compensation cess and exemptions from IGST as presented in Volume-3 of the detailed agenda notes and the Addendum thereto and another Addendum attached as Annexure-4 to the Minutes with the following modifications: –
GST Rate on Goods
(i) Suji: Other than put up in unit container and bearing a registered brand name, to be charged to Nil rate of tax instead of the proposed 5% and suji put up in unit container and bearing a registered brand name to be charged at the rate of 5%;

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ntire textile chain;
(xi) 'Puja samagri': Fitment Committee to first define the term 'puja samagri' and then to exempt it;
(xii) Footwear: Council to discuss separately the tax rate on footwear;
(xiii) Sale by CSD Canteen: Council to discuss it separately;
(xiv) Power driven agricultural implements: Council to discuss it again;
(xv) Electricity: Council to examine this issue further and put it in exempt list, if required;
(xvi) Coffee beans, not roasted: To be charged to Nil rate of tax;
(xvii) Areca nut: Dried areca nuts, whether or not shelled or peeled, to be taxed at the rate of 5%;
(xviii) Natural Resin: to be charged to 5% of tax instead of the proposed rate of 18%;
(xix) Tendu Leaves and Bidi: Council to discuss separately the tax rate on biri and tendu leaves;
(xx) Dried tobacco leaves: to levy 5% GST on tobacco leaves under reverse charge;
(xxi) 'Namkeen' including 'khakhra': to be charged to 12% of tax instead of the proposed 18%;
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oncessions in Annexure XII of Volume-3 of the detailed agenda notes approved.
Discussion on rates for Services
19. The Secretary introduced the proposed rates of tax and exemptions for services as contained in Annexure VI to X of Volume-3 of the detailed agenda notes and the Addendum thereto. He stated that after discussion during the meeting of officers of the Centre and the States held on 17 May, 2017 in Srinagar, it was agreed to add a few more services to be exempt under GST as they were exempted under the existing Service Tax regime and was circulated to the Council on 18 May, 2017 (Annexure-4 of the Minutes). The Council; thereafter, took up for consideration the various Annexures VI to X and Annexures XIII and XIV relating to services contained in the detailed Agenda Notes for agenda item 9.
Annexure VI (List A-l):
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ed under the authority of the Constitution, no GST should be payable on collection of such fee. He pointed out that Government provided security to high dignitaries as part of its sovereign function and that since services provided by an employer to his employee were taxable for a value above Rs. 50,000, security services would be liable to GST. The Additional Chief Secretary, Haryana, stated that in his State also, there was a fee for giving liquor licence and no GST should be levied on that for the reasons as explained by Punjab and also on the ground that as alcohol for human consumption was not covered under GST, the activities connected to it should also not be charged to GST. The Hon'ble Ministers from Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Rajasthan and Telangana also supported the view that no GST should be charged on the licence fee for giving liquor licence for human consumption. Shri Amitabh Kumar, Joint Secretary (TRU-II), CBEC, stated that there was no GST for services given by an e

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ery weak justification for charging tax from telecom operators on spectrum fees. The Hon'ble Minister from Bihar stated that tax on liquor fee should not be exempted as this tax would now be shared with the Central Government. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that 42% of this collection would also be shared with the States.
19.3. The Hon'ble Minister from Jammu & Kashmir raised an issue as to what was the broad policy objective for charging tax on Government services. The Secretary stated that tax was charged on big items like giving right-of-way for laying pipeline or sale of spectrum. The Advisor (GST), Punjab, stated that a distinction should be made between the Constitutional power to levy a tax (like entry 51 and 56 of List II of Schedule 7 of the Constitution) and other taxes. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat supported the levy of tax on the fee for giving liquor licence as this would be distributed to all the States. The Hon'ble Minister from Assam st

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d that in his State, the fee for liquor licence was collected on quarterly basis. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi also stated that the arrangement of charging higher tax on liquor would lead to problems. The Hon'ble Minister from Telangana stated that in his State liquor fee was collected by a Corporation and services given by the Corporation could be exempt. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that from the taxation policy point of view, the price effect on dealers or consumers of alcohol was not a primary policy objective. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated that the main problem was lack of set off of ITC under State Excise. The Hon'ble Minister from Punjab stated that liquor fee was a de facto tax and there should be no tax on tax. The Secretary stated that grant of a licence was a service given by the Government and this could not be exempted. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that the only way to address this issue was to change the taxati

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e fee for liquor in the GST regime also and not to exempt it.
19.5. The Hon'ble Minister from Madhya Pradesh stated that an exemption should also be given for services provided for religious pilgrimage such as Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. The Secretary clarified that it was already exempt. Shri R.K. Tiwari, Additional Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh, suggested that services given by State bodies like State Co-operative Banks should also be exempted from tax. The Secretary stated that in the Addendum to the agenda notes for Agenda Item 9 circulated on 18 May, 2017, there was an entry to exempt services by way of collection of contribution under any scheme of the State Governments and under this, the States could list out their specific schemes for exemption from GST which could be brought before the Council.
Annexure VI (List A-2):
20.1. The Secretary explained that List A-2 of Annexure VI contained proposals to continue Service Tax exemptions in GST with modifications as recommende

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s had argued that their revenue would be adversely affected if the room rent limit for exemption was kept high. The Hon'ble Minister from Goa suggested to keep the exemption limit for room rent at Rs. 500 per day as this figure was arrived at after consideration in the Fitment Committee.
20.2. The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Puducherry stated that his Union Territory was a tourist destination where houses were being converted as hotels and there was increasing inflow of tourists. He, therefore, suggested to keep the exemption limit for room rent at Rs. 1,000 per day. The Hon'ble Ministers from Uttarakhand and Telangana also supported this proposal. The Hon'ble Ministers from Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar supported the exemption limit for room rent at Rs. 500 per day. The Hon'ble Minister from Rajasthan stated that the tourism industry and the hotel industry needed to be treated differently and suggested the exemption limit of room rent to be Rs

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ted that if States wanted to promote a particular film, they could give reimbursement of SGST portion of the tax. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated that theatre and cultural activity was a different dimension of society and could not be treated the same as consumption of alcohol in a restaurant. He observed that in a place like Mandi House, which had a seating capacity of 200, even 50 tickets were sold with difficulty, and therefore, it needed to be encouraged. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that though Delhi had world-class stadia, it had very few big events. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi responded that Delhi might not have many big events, it had several small events and charitable programmes. The Secretary stated that smaller theatre groups would enjoy exemption up to the turnover ofRs. 20 lakh. The Hon'ble Minister from Goa also agreed with the proposed rates.
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n to particular activities could not be justified. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat suggested that tax on job charges could be kept at a lower rate. The Secretary stated that tax on the job charges would be paid by the principal manufacturer and he would be eligible to take ITC on the same.
Annexure VI (List A-3);
21. The Secretary stated that List A-3 of Annexure VI contained proposals to withdraw in GST certain exemptions extended under Service Tax. He further stated that this List should be read along with Addendum circulated on 18 May, 2017 after the meeting of officers of the Centre and the States (Annexure 4 of the Minutes) in which some exemptions were proposed to be restored and it was also provided that services by way of collection of contribution under any scheme of the State Governments could also be included in the exemption list after consideration by the Council. The Council approved List A – 3 of Annexure VI along with the Addendum circulated on 18 May

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newsprint manufactured in India. He further stated that 50% of advertisement came from businesses and they would get credit for this tax. He added that 6 major news group had proposed that a tax of 5% should be imposed on selling of space for advertisements in print media if GST was levied on newsprint. He stated that if tax was exempted, then, the major newspapers would suffer a disadvantage due to embedded taxes. The Principal Secretary (Finance), Chhattisgarh, stated that they had also received representations to levy 5% tax on supply of newspapers. The Secretary stated that this tax should not be levied as burden would fall on the consumers, who would not be eligible for ITC. The Hon'ble Minister from Bihar stated that the print media deserved to be congratulated for coming forward with a suggestion to levy tax in their sector. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that the taxation on media was different from taxation on business and there were court judgments to the effect that

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g health care services where room charges were Rs. 2,000 or more per day. The Joint Secretary (TRU-II), CBEC, stated that the tax would be charged at the rate of 18% in view of entry at SI.No.6 of Annexure IX. The Hon'ble Minister from Kamataka stated that presently they charged luxury tax at the rate of 18% for such hospital rooms. The Hon'ble Minister from Telangana stated that they charged tax for such hospital rooms at the rate of 10%. The Joint Secretary (TRU-II), CBEC, stated that such luxury tax was also being charged in Kerala and a few other States. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Del hi stated that patients did not go to hospital for luxury but for treatment and no tax should be levied for their stay in hospital. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that taxation in education and health sectors should be avoided and even if some States were charging luxury tax for hospital rooms, rate of 18% appeared excessive. The  Secretary stated that the rate could be

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xcept passengers travelling in sleeper class) at the rate of 5% as there was no GST on petroleum products. The Hon'ble Minister from Uttarakhand stated that in respect of transport of passengers by air-conditioned contract or stage carriage, no benefit of tax would now accrue to the States as it was a destination based tax. The Secretary stated that this would be governed by the provisions of place of supply under the IGST Act. The Hon'ble Minister from Karnataka stated that a flat composition rate of 5% on transportation by road was a retrograde step as this would encourage grey market operations whereas the general effort under the GST was to bring all businesses into the tax net. He stated that in order to encourage transparency of business of transport, which was bedrock of economic development, it was important that the tax administration should be able to ascertain as to how much fuel etc. was consumed by the transporter. He stated that this scheme ould encourage under re

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ld be allowed on the same. The Hon'ble Chairperson observed that the officers had calculated the set-off on account of petrol/diesel and earlier the tax on transport sector came to 4.5%, which was now being made 5%. The Secretary stated that increasing the rate of tax at a level much higher than the present rate would be disruptive for the economy and suggested to continue with the proposed rate. The Council agreed to the proposal and approved the proposal to levy 5% GST on all services covered under Annexure VII.
Annexure VIII:
24.1. The Secretary stated that Annexure VIII contained the services which were proposed to be taxed at the rate of 12%. He explained the scheme of taxation for restaurants and stated that a composition rate of 5% was available for restaurants with turnover between Rs. 20 lakh and Rs. 50 lakh and airconditioned or non-air-conditioned restaurants would attract a tax rate of 12% with full ITC and restaurants with liquor licence (whether or not air-condition

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Minister from Rajasthan suggested to keep the rate of tax for restaurants at 12% irrespective of the fact whether or not it had a liquor licence. The Hon'ble Minister from Meghalaya stated that all non-air-conditioned restaurants should be taxed at the rate of 5%. The Secretary stated that the present weighted average of only VAT incidence on restaurants was about 12% and if it was reduced to 5%, it would lead to a big loss of revenue. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Puducherry suggested to keep different rates of tax for air-conditioned and non-airconditioned restaurants. After further discussion, the Council agreed that restaurants having facility of air-conditioning or central heating at any time during the year (whether serving liquor or not) would be levied to tax at the rate of 18%, restaurants serving liquor-would be taxed at the rate of 18% and restaurants not having facility of air-conditioning or central heating at any time during the year and not having licence to s

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t presently the approximate combined incidence of tax was around 9% -10% but the headline rate of tax would now become 12% with the benefit of II'C. He added that the overflow of input tax credit in this sector would not be refunded. He state~ that building materials would be mostly in the rate slab of 12% and due to benefit of lTC, the prices of flats should become cheaper. He stated that consumer education would be required on this subject.
24.3. The Hon'ble Minister from Telangana stated that two different schemes of taxation in construction sector could lead to confusion and suggested that sale of finished flats should also get ITC as otherwise there was a risk of builder selling finished flats as flats under construction. The Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister ofGujarat stated that this possibility had become remote after the enactment of the Real Estate (Development and Regulation) Act (RERA). The Hon'ble Minister from Maharashtra stated that abatement regarding value ofl

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r and the developer came into existence:
Sr. No.
Stage during which the developer enters into a contract with the purchaser.
Rate of Abatement
a)
Before issue of the Commencement-Certificate.
NIL
b)
From the Commencement Certificate to the completion of plinth level.
5%
c)
After the completion of plinth level to the completion of 100% of RCC framework
15%
d)
After the completion of 100% RCC framework to the Occupancy Certificate.
45%
e)
After the Occupancy Certificate
100%
He added that for determining the value of supply of services as per the above Table, it shall be necessary for the dealer to furnish a certificate from the Competent Authority. This would make the levy compliant with Law laid down by Hon'ble Courts and such deduction would avoid hardship to people in Maharashtra (mainly MMRDA region). He further proposed exemption from levy of Maharashtra SGST on ongoing construction of complex, building etc. services, where lump sum amount was already paid on

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lue, this would lead to exercise of discretion and could affect revenue. After discussion, the Council agreed to the proposal on the rate of tax on construction service proposed in Annexure VIII and also the other taxation proposals in Annexure VIII.
Annexure IX:
25. The Secretary explained that this Annexure contained services which were proposed to be taxed at the rate of 18%. He stated that some of the items covered under this Annexure such as renting of hotels and supply of food/drinks in air-conditioned restaurants had already been discussed earlier while discussing the services covered under Annexure VI (List A-2) and Annexure VIII respectively. He proposed that subject to these modifications, the rate of services proposed under Annexure IX might be approved. He added that any other service not covered in 5%, 12% or 28% Schedule would fall in this slab. The Council agreed to the proposal.
Annexure X:
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f the ticket rate on circus and theatrical performance was less than Rs. 250, then the tax would be exempt. The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Puducherry stated that tax on admission to cinema should be kept at the lower slab of 18%. The Hon'ble Minister from Telangana suggested that the rate for entry into multiplex cinema hall could be kept at 28% and for entry into other cinema hall could be kept at the rate of 18%. The Hon'ble Chairperson stated that tax at the rate of about 28% was already being paid on entry into cinema halls. He suggested that services by way of admission or access to circus, Indian classical dance including folk dance, theatrical performance and drama could be charged to GST at the rate of 18% and the rest of the entries under SI.No.l of Annexure X could be taxed at the rate of28%. The Council agreed to this proposal.
26.2. The Hon'ble Minister from Assam raised an issue as to at what rate tax on dish TV, cable TV etc. would be charged. The Secretar

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that all Members had to run Governments. The Hon'ble Minister from Jammu & Kashmir cautioned that the architecture of GST should not be impaired by making various carve outs and one should avoid going towards the system of modified VAT. After further discussion, the Council agreed that hotels with room tariff ofRs. 1,000 and above but less than Rs. 2,500 per room per day would attract the rate of 12% with full ITC and hotels with room tariff of Rs. 2,500 and above but less than Rs. 5,000 per room per day would attract the rate of 18% with full ITC.
26.3. The Hon'ble Minister from Karnataka stated that a high tax of 28% on horse racing. would lead to evasion of tax. However, the Council agreed to keep the tax rate at 28%.
26.4. After further discussion, the Council approved the entries under Annexure X with the following amendment: –
(i) services by way of admission or access to circus, Indian classical dance including folk dance, theatrical performance and drama to be taxed

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ate for a good at 6 or 8-digit levels. He proposed that for GST purposes, the classification of goods and the Rules for Interpretation thereof as given in the First Schedule to the icustoms Tariff Act, 1975 be relied upon. The Council agreed to this proposal.
29.2. The Secretary drew attention to an Addendum to Agenda Notes circulated by the GST Council Secretariat on 16 May, 2017 wherein it was mentioned that a new Chapter 99 was proposed to be added to the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 which would provide 6-digit classification of services based on the United Nations Central Product Classification (UN CPC). He stated that the 5- digit classification of UN CPC (excluding '99') had been adapted to meet the Indian requirements. He informed that a Committee of officers in CBEC was constituted to recommend a scheme of classification of services for GST. The Committee had proposed a scheme of classification based on National Product Classification for Services Sec

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of taxable services which were covered in the positive list regime. The new GST system would enable collection of data at a more disaggregated level vis-à-vis the present system of clubbing all services under 120 odd accounting heads. He proposed that the Council might accept this classification of services for GST. The Council approved the proposal.
30. For agenda item 9, the Council approved the proposals related to supply of services as presented in Volume-3 of the detailed agenda notes and the Addendum thereto and another Addendum attached as Annexure-4 to the Minutes along with the modifications, where relevant, as listed below:
(i) Annexure VI (List A-1): The Council approved the proposal of the Fitment Committee to continue under GST, the 54 existing listed exemptions under the service tax, and to also exempt the services provided by the GSTN to the Central of State Governments/Union Territories for implementation of GST;
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e VII: The Council approved the proposal to levy tax at the rate of 5% on the 11 listed services;
(vi) Annexure VIII: The Council approved the proposal to levy tax at the rate of 12% on the 7 listed services with the following modifications:
(a) restaurants having facility of air-conditioning or central heating at any time during the year (whether serving liquor or not) to be levied to tax at the rate of 18% and restaurants not having facility of air-conditioning or central heating at any time during the year and not having license to serve liquor to be taxed at the rate of 12%, , restaurants not having facility of air-conditioning or central heating at any time during the year and having license to serve liquor to be taxed at the rate of 18%;
(vii) Annexure IX: The Council approved the proposal to levy tax at the rate of 18% on the 6 listed services subject to the modification of rates in respect of renting of hotels and supply of food/drinks in air-conditioned restaurants recorde

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ge;
(xii) Schedules for classification of Goods and Services: The Council approved the proposal to adopt  the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 and the Rules for Interpretation thereof for classification of Goods under GST and addition of a new Chapter 99 to the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 providing for a 6-digit classification of Services based on the United Nations Central Product Classification (UN CPC).
Agenda Item 10: Any other agenda item with the permission of the Chairperson:
31. The Hon'ble Minister from Jammu & Kashmir stated that the Council needed to deliberate on the tax treatment in respect of trade across the Line of Control (LOC) in his State. The Secretary stated that broadly the existing regime could be continued but this could be examined and discussed further. The Hon'ble Minister from Tamil Nadu circulated a written speech which was taken on record.
 Agenda Item 11: Date of the next meeting of the GST Council:

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meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
(Arun Jaitley)
Chairperson GST Council
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List of Ministers who attended the 14th GST Council Meeting on 18-19 May 2017
S No
State/Centre
Name of the Minister
Charge
Govt. of India
Shri Arun Jaitley
Finance Minister
2
Govt. of India
Shri Santosh Kumar
Gangwar
3
Puducherry
Shri V. Narayanasamy
Minister of State (Finance)
Chief Minister
4
Delhi
Shri Manish Sisodia
Deputy Chief Minister
Arunachal
5
Pradesh
Shri Chowna Mein
Deputy Chief Minister
6
Gujarat
Shri Nitinbhai Patel
Deputy Chief Minister
7
Manipur
Shri Y. Joykumar Singh
Deputy Chief Minister
Shri Yanamala
8
Andhra Pradesh
Ramakrishnudu
Finance Minister
9
Assam
Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma
Finance Minister
10-
Bihar
Shri Bijendra Prasad Yadav Finance Minister
11
Chhattisgarh
Shri Amar Agrawal
Minister, Commercial Taxes
12
Goa
Shri Mauvin Godinho
Minister for Panchayat
13
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List of Officials who attended the 14th GST Council Meeting on 18-19 May 2017
Name of the Officer
Shri Mahender Singh
Shri R.K. Mahajan
Shri P.K. Jain
S No
State/Centre
1 Govt. of India
Dr. Hasmukh Adhia
2 Govt. of India
3 Govt. of India
Ms. Vanaja N. Sarna
Dr. Arvind Subramanian
4 Govt. of India
5 Govt. of India
6 Govt. of India
7 Govt. of India
8 Govt. of India
9 Govt. of India
10 Govt. of India
11 Govt. of India
12 Govt. of India
13 Govt. of India
14 Govt. of India
Shri B.N. Sharma
Shri P.K. Mohanty
Shri Alok Shukla
Ms. Hemambika R. Priya
Shri Simanchala Dash
Shri B.B. Mohapatra
Shri Upender Gupta
Shri Udai Singh Kumawat
Shri Amitabh Kumar
Shri G.D. Lohani
Shri D.S.Malik
Shri Hemant Jain
Charge
Revenue Secretary
Chairman, CBEC
Chief Economic Adviser
Member (GST), CBEC
Member (Budget), CBEC
Chief Commissioner, (AR), CESTAT,
CBEC
Additional Secretary, Dept. of Revenue
Advisor (GST), CBEC
Joint Secretary (TRU), Dept

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Assistant Commissioner, GST Policy
Additional Secretary
Commissioner
Joint Commissioner
Assistant Commissioner
Superintendent
Inspector
Chairman
30 GST Council
31 GST Council
32 GSTN
33 GSTN
Shri Prakash Kumar
CEO
34
Andhra
Pradesh
Shri J. Syamala Rao
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
Andhra
Additional Commissioner,
35
Shri T. Ramesh Babu
Pradesh
Arunachal
36
Shri Marnya Ete
Commercial Taxes
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
Pradesh
Arunachal
37
Shri Tapas Dutta
Assistant Commissioner
Pradesh
38 Assam
Shri Anurag Goel
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
39 Bihar
Ms. Sujata Chaturvedi
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
40 Bihar
Shri Arun Kumar Mishra
Additional Secretary, Commercial
Taxes
41 Chhattisgarh
Shri Amitabh Jain
42 Chhattisgarh
Ms. Sangeetha P
43 Delhi
Shri S. N. Sahai
Principal Secretary (Finance)
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
Principal Secretary, Finance
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Madhya
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Madhya
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Shri Sudip Gupta
Pradesh
Dr. Shamim Ahmed Wani
Shri P.K. Bhat
Shri Sanjay Kumar Prasad
Dr. Rajan Khobragade
Shri Raghwendra Kumar
Singh
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
Additional Commissioner,
Commercial Taxes
Additional Commissioner,
Commercial Taxes
Additional Commissioner,
Commercial Taxes
Joint Commissioner, Commercial
Taxes
Asst. Commissioner, Commercial
Taxes
Joint Commissioner, Commercial
Taxes
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
Deputy Commissioner, Commercial
Taxes
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Joint Commissioner
Shri R.K. Khurkishor Singh Assistant Commissioner
S No State/Centre
Name of the Officer
65 Maharashtra
Shri Dhananjay Akhade
66 Manipur
67 Meghalaya
Shri Leonardo Khongsit
68 Nagaland
Shri Y. Mhathung Murry
69 Nagaland
Shri Wochamo Udyuo
70 Odisha
Shri Ashok Meena
71 Odisha
Shri Sahadev Sahu
72 Puducherry
Dr. V. Candavelou
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Shri Kaashi Vishweshwar
Rao
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
Deputy Commissioner, Commercial
Taxes
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
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87 Uttarakhand
Shri Piyush Kumar
88 Uttarakhand
Shri Vipin Kumar
89 Uttar Pradesh
90 Uttar Pradesh
91 Uttar Pradesh
92 West Bengal
Ms. Smaraki Mahapatra
93 West Bengal
Shri Khalid Anwar
Shri R.K. Tiwari
Shri Mukesh Kumar
Meshram
Shri Vivek Kumar
Charge
Additional Commissioner,
Commercial Taxes
Additional Commissioner,
Commercial Taxes
Additional Chief Secretary
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
Additional Commissioner
Commissioner, Commercial Taxes
Sr. Joint Commissioner, Commercial
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Presentation on GST Rules
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GOODS AND SERVICES TAX
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of non-resident taxable person, a business
entity incorporated or established outside India has to submit a
tax identification number or unique number on the basis of
which the entity is identified by the Government of that country
or its PAN, if available for registration
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Updated Rules for Registration (2/2).
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TAX
MARKET
Provides for Aadhar based electronic verification code as a mode
of authentication of any document
Such verification to be done within two days of furnishing of
documents
Provides that Companies have to authenticate documents
through digital signature certificate only
Updated Rules for Payment
INATION
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MARKET
Provides that a registered person upon noticing any discrepancy
in his electronic liability or cash ledger can communicate the
same to the officer exercising jurisdiction in the matter
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MARKET
Provides that maximum number of characters in Invoice No., Bill
of Supply, etc. can be 16
Provides for signature or digital signature of invoice issued by
recipient under reverse charge
Provides that in context of advance received
。 where the rate of tax is not determinable it will be paid @
18%
where nature of supply is not determinable it will be
deemed to be inter-State supply
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Updated Rules for Invoice (2/2)
Particulars to be contained in payment voucher and refund
voucher have been provided
Provides that Special dispensation for issuance of invoice already
made available for Banking company, insurer, Financial
institution, etc. will be applicable in case of issuance of receipt
voucher, payment voucher, refund voucher also
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Provides that the supplier of goods or services to distinct or
related persons can also opt to declare value as 90% of the price
charged by recipient
Provides that special valuation Rules in case of certain supplies
would be applicable only at the option of the supplier
Provides for valuation of goods repossessed from the defaulting
borrower for recovery of loan or debt
Valuation of services procured through pure agent simplified
Provides for valuation of supplies in case such supplies were
inclusive of tax
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TAX
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ADDENDUM DATED 18.05.2017 TO THE GST RATE SCHEDULE FOR GOODS
CIRCULATED ON 14.05.2017
[As per discussions in the Fitment Committee]
Amendments in the Detailed Horizontal Rate Sheets circulated to CCTs on 14.05.2017:

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an or other vegetable materials [4601, 4602] {Plaits and similar products of
plaiting materials, whether or not assembled into strips; plaiting materials, plaits and similar
products of plaiting materials, bound together in parallel strands or woven, in sheet form,
whether or not being finished articles (for example, mats, matting, screens) of vegetables
materials such as of bamboo, of rattan, of other vegetable materials [4601] and Basketwork,
wickerwork and other articles, made directly to shape from plaiting materials or made up from
goods of heading 4601; articles of loofah [4602]} presently recommended to be at 18% may
be kept at 12%.
7. Fly ash bricks [Ch. 68] presently recommended to be at 18% may be kept at 12%, along with
sand lime bricks.
8. Indigenous handmade musical instruments [Ch. 92] presently recommended to be at 12% may
be kept at Nil.
9. Branded broomsticks, phool bahari jhadoo (9603 10 00) presently recommended to be at 18%
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ional Skill Development
Corporation or the Sector Skill Council
in relation to
(a) the National Skill Development Programme implemented by
the National Skill Development Corporation; or
(b) a vocational skill development course under the National Skill
Certification and Monetary Reward Scheme; or
(c) any other Scheme implemented by the National Skill
Development Corporation.”
Services of assessing bodies empanelled centrally by Directorate Exemption may be
General of Training, Ministry of Skill Development and continued
Entrepreneurship by way of assessments under Skill Development
Initiative (SDI) Scheme
Services provided by training providers (Project implementation
agencies) under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana
under the Ministry of Rural Development by way of offering skill or
vocational training courses certified by National Council For
Vocational Training.
64. Services by way of sponsorship of sporting events organised, –
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n Mantri
Awas Yojana;
Exemption at (bb)
may be continued in
respect of pure
labour contracts.
Services by way of construction, erection, commissioning, or Exemption at (bb)
installation of original works pertaining to,-
may be continued in
(b) a single residential unit otherwise than as a part of a residential respect of pure
complex;
labour contracts.
67. Services of general insurance business provided under following Exemption may be
schemes –
continued and its
(a) Hut Insurance Scheme;
(b) Cattle
Insurance
present
expanded to include
scope
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insurance
Integrated Rural Development Programme);
schemes.
(c) Scheme for Insurance of Tribals;
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(d) Janata Personal Accident Policy and Gramin Accident Policy;
(e) Group Personal Accident Policy for Self-Employed Women;
(f) Agricultural Pumpset and Failed Well Insurance;
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urgent query

urgent query
Query (Issue) Started By: – mukesh pareek Dated:- 18-5-2017 Last Reply Date:- 27-6-2017 Goods and Services Tax – GST
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GST
Dear Experts,
We are manufacturing cosmetics products after using denatured Alcohol and paying excise duty under M&TP Act to state Goverment.
My question is whether M&TP act continue or discontinue after applicable of GST ?
Reply By Rajagopalan Ranganathan:
The Reply:
Sir,
Taxes leviable under Medicinal & Toilet Preparation Act is s

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GST Bill introduced, hits hurdles in Odisha Assembly

GST Bill introduced, hits hurdles in Odisha Assembly
GST
Dated:- 18-5-2017

Bhubaneswar, May 18 (PTI) The special session of the Odisha Assembly on GST today hit hurdles from the begining with the Opposition seeking more time to go through contents of the Bills introduced by state Finance minister S B Behera.
As the House began for the day after obituary reference to some departed ex-members of the assembly, the finance minister moved The Odisha Goods and Service Tax Bill, 2017 and The Odisha Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2017.
However, Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra of Congress objected to the manner in which the Bills were pushed in the House. He sought more time for the law-makers to study the bills before hold

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Govt making export benefit scheme GST-compliant: Official

Govt making export benefit scheme GST-compliant: Official
GST
Dated:- 18-5-2017

New Delhi, May 17 (PTI) The government is re-designing the export benefit scheme MEIS to make it GST-compliant, a senior official said today.
Neeraj Prasad, Additional Commissioner, GST Cell, Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) also said that the issue of working capital requirements under the new tax regime is being deliberated upon by the government.
He said this while addressing Ficci's Executive Committee Meeting here.
Under the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS), the commerce ministry gives duty benefits to several products.
It provides duty benefits at 2 per cent, 3 per cent and 5 per cent depending upon the product a

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FOCUS AREAS OF REPORTS GENERATED BY SOFTWARE FOR FILING RETURNS

FOCUS AREAS OF REPORTS GENERATED BY SOFTWARE FOR FILING RETURNS
By: – Pradeep Jain
Goods and Services Tax – GST
Dated:- 18-5-2017

As we all know, filing of numerous returns in the GST regime will be a cumbersome task which will be essential for claiming input tax credit because credit availment requires matching of outward supplies of the supplier and inward purchases of the purchaser on online portal. The task will be tedious for large sized companies which will require them to develop software for generation of utility reports that will aid and assist in filing returns. Following are the key areas that need attention while developing software for generating reports that are useful for filing returns:-
Since the assessee

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T will be payable even in case of advance received for supply of goods. In such a scenario, specific reference of purchase order should be given against each advance received so that the tax paid on the advance could be adjusted during the issuance of invoice for the same. The accounting for advance receipts will be required to be done party wise on FIFO basis.
Another significant area of concern is giving effect of debit notes and credit notes. Although, there is no problem in giving effect of debit notes issued by supplier of goods because that will lead to increase in tax liability which will not be objected by the revenue department. However, the effect of credit notes issued is to be given only if there is reduction in tax liability

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JOB WORK AND JOB WORKER UNDER GST REGIME (PART-1)

JOB WORK AND JOB WORKER UNDER GST REGIME (PART-1)
By: – Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal
Goods and Services Tax – GST
Dated:- 18-5-2017

Introduction
Job-work industry constitutes a significant sector in Indian economy. It's an indispensable extended arm of India's industrial sector contributing significantly to GDP. 'Job work' basically includes outsourced activities which may or may not result in manufacture.
A large number of industries find it difficult to complete the entire process of production or manufacturing activity on their own. As such, the industry depend on outside support for many things, like, testing, various intermediate processes on raw material etc., for completing/intermediating the manufacturing process.
Presently in industry field, many manufacturers send inputs/semi-finished inputs for some or other process. The activities undertaken by small/medium industries on inputs/semi-finished inputs as per the directions of the principal manufacturer are known

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istered person and the expression 'job worker' shall be construed accordingly. [Section 2(68) of the CGST Act, 2017].
This definition is much wider than the one given in Notification No. 214/86 – CE dated 23rd March, 1986. In the said notification, job work has been defined in such a manner so as to ensure that the activity of job work must amount to manufacture. Thus the definition of job work itself reflects the change in basic scheme of taxation relating to job work in the proposed GST regime.
Examples of common job works are slitting, machining, welding, painting, electroplating, assembly, powder coating etc. Job works are also widely resorted to in textile, agri-processing, printing, gems & jewellery sectors etc.
Many a times, the job worker may be more efficient, both in terms of the quality and cost as compared to the main manufacturer due to the pursuance of core competencies and economies of scale. Most of the big manufacturers, in fact, make very good use of this concept o

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relation to:
* agriculture, printing or textile processing;
* cut and polished diamonds and gemstones; or plain and studded jewellery of gold and other precious metals, falling under Chapter 71 of the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985;
* any goods excluding alcoholic liquors for human consumption, on which appropriate duty is payable by the principal manufacturer; or
* processes of electroplating, zinc plating, anodizing, heat treatment, powder coating, painting including spray painting or auto black, during the course of manufacture of parts of cycles or sewing machines upto an aggregate value of taxable service of the specified processes of one hundred and fifty lakh rupees in a financial year subject to the condition that such aggregate value had not exceeded one hundred and fifty lakh rupees during the preceding financial year.
Taxable Person
Under GST, 'taxable person' means a person who is registered or liable to be registered under the provisions of GST Act, 2017.
An e

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se of Service Tax, exemption limit is an aggregate turnover of INR 10 lakh in a financial year. However, under GST regime, the limit of threshold exemption will be enhanced to INR 20 lakh on all India basis except in the case of North-eastern and hilly States (total 11 States) where it will be INR 10 lakhs. These States are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand.
For this purpose, the definition of 'aggregate turnover' has been provided in section 2(6) of the GST Act, 2017 which is different from the existing one. Since, under GST regime, limit of threshold exemption will be reduced to INR 10 or 20 lakhs from INR 1.5 crore, it will adversely affect the manufacturers. In the case of service providers, it will be beneficial.
Registration
According to section 22 of GST Act, 2017, every supplier shall be liable to be registered under the Act in the State from where he makes a taxable supply of g

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rnover exceeds the prescribed threshold.
Composition Levy
Composition levy has been in vogue in indirect taxes to address the compliance issues vis-a-vis revenue in case of small job workers and their specific business units having complexity in the determination of valuation of taxable amount.
Under GST regime, there is also a concept of composition levy. An alternate levy for small businesses( like job work business), whose aggregate turnover in financial year doesn't exceed INR 50 lakh, composition levy in lieu of tax will be payable at the proposed rates but not exceeding than 1 per cent in case of manufacturer and 0.5 per cent for others (basically traders). There will be equal SGST/UTGST. Thus, total tax payable will be double of the aforesaid rates.
Under GST regime, 'aggregate turnover' includes the aggregate value of-
* all taxable supplies,
* exempt supplies,
* exports of goods and/or services and
* inter-State supplies of a person having the same PAN,
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nder the GST, or
* who makes any inter-State outward supplies of goods.
Accordingly, if the process undertaken by the job worker amounts to manufacture/ deemed manufacture of goods (except as may be restricted by the Government), then such job worker is eligible to opt for composition scheme. In case any process does not amount to manufacture/deemed manufacture or services only, then such job worker is not eligible for composition scheme.
Supply
In the case of job work, the supply of goods, after completion of job-work, by a registered job worker shall be treated as the supply of goods by the principal.
Goods sent by a taxable person to a job worker will be treated as supply and liable to GST will be treated as a supply as supply includes all forms of supply such as sale, transfer, etc. However, the registered taxable person (the principal), under intimation and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed send any inputs and/or capital goods, without payment of tax, to a job

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thout payment of tax.
supply such inputs or capital goods, other than moulds and dies, jigs and fixtures, or tools, within one year and three years, respectively, of their being sent out from the place of business of a job worker on payment of tax within India, or with or without payment of tax for export, as the case may be.
It is important to note that the there is no time limit for bringing back moulds and dies, jigs and fixtures, or tools.
The goods shall not be permitted to be supplied from the place of business of a job worker unless principal declares the place of business of the job-worker as his additional place of business except in a case-
* where the job worker is registered under section 25 i.e., the procedure for registration, or
where the principal is engaged in the supply of such goods as may be notified by the Commissioner.
The principal shall be responsible for keeping proper accounts for the inputs or capital goods instead of job worker.
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he purposes of transportation of goods for job work, the consigner may issue a delivery challan, serially numbered, instead of tax invoice at the time of removal of goods for transportation.
* The delivery challan shall be prepared in triplicate, in the case of supply of goods, in the following manner:-
* the original copy being marked as 'original for consignee',
* the duplicate copy being marked as 'duplicate for transporter'; and
* the triplicate copy being marked as 'triplicate for consigner'.
Where goods are being transported on a delivery challan in lieu of invoice, the same shall be declared in FORM [Part A of FORM GST INS-01]
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Job work "Textile Processing "
Textile processing is predominantly done on job work basis in the power loom sector. The processor receives Grey/un processed fabric on the behalf of their client/s. In this case inputs i.e. chemicals, power , fuel etc is purchased by the job worker (

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TRANSFER OF ACD AND CVD TO GST

TRANSFER OF ACD AND CVD TO GST
Query (Issue) Started By: – sachin shilamkar Dated:- 17-5-2017 Last Reply Date:- 27-5-2017 Goods and Services Tax – GST
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GST
What are the provisions under GST for transfer of ACD and CVD paid by the importer/dealer on the closing stock which will transfer to GST on 1st July when GST will get implemented.
What records need to be maintained and how to apply for the same.
Regards
Sachin
Reply By Rajagopalan Ranganathan:
The Reply:
Sir,
According to Explanation 1 & 2 appended to Section 140 of CGST Act, 2017 " eligible duties" means-
the additional duty leviable under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act (CVD), 1975 (51 of 1975.);
(iii) the additiona

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Manpower supplier and transporters requires GST Registration?

Manpower supplier and transporters requires GST Registration?
Query (Issue) Started By: – Ramakrishnan Seshadri Dated:- 17-5-2017 Last Reply Date:- 18-5-2017 Goods and Services Tax – GST
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GST
Dear Sir,
We are paying service tax for manpower and transport under rcm.
Our question is whether the service provider has to get registered themselves with the GST .
Please clarify.
Thanks & Regards,
S.Ramakrishnan
Reply By Rajagopalan Ranganathan:
The Reply:
Sir,
Yes you h

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COMPLIANCE ON CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION UNDER REVISED GST LAW:-

COMPLIANCE ON CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION UNDER REVISED GST LAW:-
By: – Pradeep Jain
Goods and Services Tax – GST
Dated:- 17-5-2017

At present, the manufacturers/dealers registered under the Central Excise Act, 1944 have the option to surrender their registration if they intend to close their operations but there is no liability or legal compliance to be discharged on cancellation of the registration. However, the situation is not same in the proposed GST regime as the assessee is required to discharge tax and is also required to file final return under section 40 of the Revised GST Law.
According to section 26(7) of the Revised GST Law, every registered taxable person whose registration is cancelled shall pay an amount e

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ount as discussed above is required to be made for inputs as such, inputs contained in semi-finished goods, inputs contained in finished goods, capital goods and even input services. The assessee can compute the value of inputs contained in the stock of goods as on the date of cancellation but it is extremely difficult to compute the input tax credit of input services contained in the stock of goods. Moreover, there might be dispute as regards whether reversal of credit of input services directly related to the stock of goods is required like transportation services for bringing inputs in the premises or whether input service credit indirectly pertaining to the stock of goods such as telephone services, security services etc. is also requir

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law is pursued, it is found that Schedule-I of the Old GST Law prescribed matters to be treated as supply without consideration which also mentioned the assets retained after deregistration which meant that assets on which no credit was taken were also treated as supply on deregistration. Not only this, permanent transfer or disposal of business assets was also considered as supply without consideration so as to levy tax irrespective of fact whether input tax credit was availed on such assets or not. However, this provision has been dispensed with in the revised GST law and now, only permanent transfer or disposal of business assets where input tax credit has been availed has been mentioned in Schedule-I thereby meaning that tax would be l

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