AGGREGATE TURNOVER IN GST REGIME
By: – Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal
Goods and Services Tax – GST
Dated:- 9-9-2016
Any tax is levied as a percentage of any amount which is either income or value or revenue or turnover. Presently, excise duty is levied on MRP, Service Tax on value of taxable service and VAT on turnover of goods. In the proposed GST regime, what will be relevant will be 'aggregate turnover'.
The 'aggregate turnover' will be relevant for the purpose of –
* registration of taxable person
* Threshold exemption limits
* Composition levy
The valuation of supply of goods and services shall be done in terms of section 15 of Model Law on GST read with GST Valuation (Determination of the Value of Supply of Goods and Services) Rules, 2016 [both are at draft stage as of now]. Accordingly, valuation may be done as per transaction value, by comparison, computed value method or residual method.
Meaning of Aggregate Turnover
'Aggregate turnover'
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same Permanent Account Number (PAN) of Income Tax, taken as a whole on an All India basis. For example, if a person is having, say 10 branch offices in different parts of a country under a same PAN filing single income tax return, his turnover for all such offices shall be aggregated.
'Aggregate turnover' shall, however, exclude the following sums –
* Taxes, if any charged under the CGST Act, SGST Act and IGST Act.
* Value of supplies of goods and services on which tax is levied on reverse charge basis.
* Value of inward supplies of goods and services.
Under the present tax law, aggregate turnover is not defined in the tax statutes but turnover is defined in VAT laws and for the purpose of threshold exemption. In Service Tax, Notification No. 33/2012-ST dated 20.06.2012 defines aggregate turnover as under-
"Aggregate value means the sum total of value of taxable services charged in the first consecutive invoices issued during a financial year but does not include
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limit for turnover, i.e. (exempt below 10 lakhs)
A
Taxable turnover
10,00,000
Non taxable / exempt turnover / export turnover
Nil
Aggregate turnover
10,00,000
Tax @ 20%
2,00,000
Effective tax rate
20%
B
Taxable turnover
Nil
Exempt / non-taxable / export turnover
10,00,000
Aggregate turnover
10,00,000
Tax @ 20%
2,00,000
Effective tax rate
Entire tax is cost
C
Taxable turnover
10,000
Non-taxable / exempt / export turnover
9,90, 000
Aggregate turnover
10,00,000
Tax @ 20%
2,00,000
Effective tax rate
2000 %
D
Taxable turnover
5,00,000
Non-taxable / exempt / export turnover
5,00,000
Aggregate turnover
10,00,000
Tax @ 20%
2,00,000
Effective tax rate
40%
(Note: Effective tax rate is based on taxable turnover)
The proposed scope of aggregate turnover may not yield the desired benefit to small tax payers and as such it may end up in tax inefficient and retrogatory measure. The present limit of exemption in Service Tax is only ₹ 10 lakhs wherea
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