In Re: Kandla Port Trust (Deendayal Port Trust)
GST
2018 (10) TMI 447 – AUTHORITY FOR ADVANCE RULING, GUJARAT – 2018 (18) G. S. T. L. 73 (A. A. R. – GST)
AUTHORITY FOR ADVANCE RULING, GUJARAT – AAR
Dated:- 30-7-2018
GUJ/GAAR/ADM/2018/31 IN APPLICATION NO. Advance Ruling/SGST&CGST/2018/AR/23
GST
R.B. MANKODI AND G.C. JAIN MEMBER
Present for the applicant : Shri Hardik V Thacker, CA
The applicant Kandla Port Trust (Deendayal Port Trust – DPT), has submitted that it is providing various services like Pilotage, Berthing, Cargo Handling, Warehousing etc. in relation to import and export of goods at Port of Kandla. It is submitted that the applicant collects Port dues from port users and also collects other vessel and goods related charges like Port Dues, Demurrage, On-Board labour charges, Wharfage charges, Anchorage Charges etc. It is submitted that service is provided to dealers within the state and outside the state.
2. The applicant referred to provisions
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s or services or both;
(b) applicability of a notification issued under the provisions of this Act;
(c) determination of time and value of supply of goods or services or both;
(d) admissibility of input tax credit of tax paid or deemed to have been paid;
(e) determination of the liability to pay tax on any goods or services or both;
(f) whether applicant is required to be registered;
(g) whether any particular thing done by the applicant with respect to any goods or services or both amounts to or results in a supply of goods or services or both, within the meaning of that term.
No other issue can be decided by the Advance Ruling Authority and therefore the Acts limit the Advance Ruling Authority to decide the issues earmarked for it under Section 97(2).
6.1 As per Section 9 of the CGST Act, 2017 and the GGST Act, 2017, CGST and SGST respectively is leviable on intra-State supplies of goods or services or both. Further, as per Sec
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ate or same Union Territory shall be treated as intra-State supply.
7. In view of the aforesaid statutory provisions, the place of supply of services of the applicant is required to be determined in order to determine whether IGST would be applicable or CGST and SGST would be applicable on port related services being provided by the applicant. Thus, the entire issue is intrinsically related to determination of 'place of supply' of service by the applicant.
8. The applicant has filed application for advance ruling wherein provisions of Sections 5, 7 and 12 of the IGST Act, 2017 have been referred. Thus, the applicant is well aware that the issue is related to 'place of supply'.
9. This authority has been constituted in exercise of the powers conferred by section 96 of the Gujarat Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, which Act extends to the whole of the state of Gujarat. This authority is a creature of statute and has to function within the legal boundary mandated b
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