Question 2 – Draft-Bills-Reports – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) GST – FAQ [OLD] on Goods and Services Tax (GST) – (December 2015) – Question 2 – Q 2: What is GST? How does it work? Ans: As already mentioned in answer to Question 1, GST is a tax on goods and services with comprehensive and continuous chain of set-off benefits from the producer's point and service provider's point upto the retailer's level. It is essentially a tax only on value addition at each stage, and a supplier at each stage is permitted to set-off, through a tax credit mechanism, the GST paid on the purchase of goods and services as available for set-off on the GST to be paid on the supply of goods 32 and services. The final consumer will thus bear only
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77; 20, he pays net GST of only ₹ 2, after setting-off of Input Tax Credit of ₹ 13 from the gross GST of ₹ 15 to the manufacturer. Similarly, when a retailer sells the same goods after a value addition of (say) ₹ 10, he pays net GST of only Re.1, after setting-off ₹ 15 from his gross GST of ₹ 16 paid to wholeseller. Thus, the manufacturer, wholeseller and retailer have to pay only ₹ 6 (= ₹ 3+Rs. 2+Re. 1) as GST on the value addition along the entire value chain from the producer to the retailer, after setting-off GST paid at the earlier stages. The overall burden of GST 33 on the goods is thus much less. This is shown in the table below. The same illustration will hold in the case of final ser
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