Goods and Services Tax – GST – Dated:- 7-10-2017 – EXPORT PACKAGE GST PRESS BRIEF The GST Council under Chairmanship of Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has in its 22nd Meeting held at Delhi on 6th October, 2017 approved a major relief package for exporters. 2. Mindful of the difficulties faced by exporters post-GST leading to a decline in export performance and export competitiveness, the Council had last month set up a high power Committee on Exports under Revenue Secretary Shri Hasmukh Adhia to recommend suitable strategies for helping this sector. This Committee had five senior Government functionaries from the Centre and an equal number from the States as members. 3. After wide ranging discussions with major Export Promotion C
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support the exporting community, which earns valuable foreign exchange and provides significant employment especially in the small and medium sector. Accordingly, the Council approved the following package of relief and incentives for exporters with immediate affect:- a. Within the next 4 days i.e. by 10.10.2017 the held-up refund of IGST paid on goods exported outside India in July would begin to be paid. The August backlog would get cleared from 18.10.2017 and refunds for subsequent months would be handled expeditiously. Other refunds of IGST paid on supplies to SEZs and of inputs taxes on exports under Bond/LUT, shall be processed from 18.10.2017 onwards. For this, the Council agreed to suitably empower Central and State GST officers so
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on such supplies given to the supplier. c. Merchant exporters will now have to pay nominal GST of 0.1% for procuring goods from domestic suppliers for export. The details would be released soon. d. The permanent solution to cash blockage is that of e-Wallet which would be credited with a notional amount as if it is an advance refund. This credit would be used to pay IGST, GST etc. The details of this facility would be worked out soon. The Council desired that the e-Wallet solution should be made operational w.e.f. 1st April 2018. e. Exporters have been exempted from furnishing Bond and Bank Guarantee when they clear goods for export. f. Specified banks and Public Sector Units (PSUs) are being allowed to import Gold without payment of IGST.
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