In Re: M/s. Kundan Misthan Bhandar
GST
2018 (11) TMI 1266 – APPELLATE AUTHORITY FOR ADVANCE RULING, UTTARAKHAND – 2018 (19) G. S. T. L. 356 (A. A. R. – GST)
APPELLATE AUTHORITY FOR ADVANCE RULING, UTTARAKHAND – AAAR
Dated:- 22-10-2018
AAR Ruling No. 09/2018-19 in Application No. 08/2018-19
GST
SHRI VIPIN CHANDRA AND SHRI AMIT GUPTA MEMBER
Present for the Applicant: Shri Aishwarya Sharma, Advocate
Present for the Concerned Officer: None
RULING
Under Section 100(1) of the Uttarakhand Goods and Services Act, 2017, an appeal against this ruling lies before the appellate authority for advance ruling constituted under Section 99 of the Uttarakhand Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, within a period of 30 days from the date of service of this order.
1. This is an application under Sub-Section (1) of Section 97 of the CGST/SGST Act, 2017 (herein after referred to as Act) and the rules made thereunder filed by M/s. Kundan Misthan Bhandar, Subhash Market, Ramnagar (Naini
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etshop when such products are not consumed within the premises of the applicant but are takeaway.
2. Advance Ruling under GST means a decision provided by the authority or the appellate authority to an applicant on matters or on questions specified in sub section (2) of section 97 or sub section (1) of section 100 in relation to the supply of goods or services or both being undertaken or proposed to be undertaken by the applicant.
3. In the present case applicant has sought advance ruling whether the activity of the applicant is supply of goods or supply of services, nature & rate of tax on items and input tax credit. Therefore, in terms of said Section 97 (2) (d), (e) & (g) of Act, the present application is hereby admitted for the questions supra in terms of Section 97 (2) of Act. The provisions of said section are reproduced below:
(2) The question on which the advance ruling is sought under this Act, shall be in respect of,
(a) classification of any goods or services or both;
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as under:
5.1 Whether supply of pure food items such as sweetmeats, namkeens, cold drink and other edible items from a sweetshop which also runs a restaurant is a transaction of supply of goods or a supply of service:
A. Before coming to any conclusion, first we have to go through the relevant provisions of law and the same are covered under section 2 of the Act ibid. The relevant portion of the same extracted an read as under:
(30) “composite supply” means a supply made by a taxable person to a recipient consisting of two or more taxable supplies of goods or services or both or any combination thereof, which are naturally bundled and supplied in conjunction with each other in the ordinary course of business one of which is a principal supply;
(52) “goods” means every kind of movable property other than money and securities but includes actionable claim, growing crops, grass and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before supply or under a
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strategy today, we will notice very often, two or more goods, or a combination of goods and services, are supplied together. This could be due to either of the following reasons:
(i) A sales strategy – to attract more customers
(ii) The nature or type of goods or services, which requires them to be bundled or supplied together
Under Service Tax, this mechanism is called Bundled Service – which is the rendering of a service or services with another element of service of services. The service tax law was dealing with pure services and not with goods per se. Now the concept introduced is for goods also and is linked with the concept of Principal Supply. Under GST law, supplies which are bundled with two or more supplies of goods or services or combination of goods and services are classified, with distinct characteristics, as:
(i) Composite Supply
(ii) Mixed Supply
If we look at the definitions (supra), Composite supply is one where two or more goods or services or both are sup
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te supply. A supply can be a mixed supply only if it is not a composite supply, As a corollary it can be said that if the transaction consists of supplies not naturally bundled in the ordinary course of business then it would be a Mixed Supply. Once the amenability of the transaction as a composite supply is ruled out, it would be a mixed supply, classified in terms of a supply of goods or services attracting highest rate of tax.
C. From the discussion supra and submission made by the applicant we find that in the case of sweet shop cum restaurant, the services from the restaurant is a principle supply which provides a bundled supply of preparation & sale of food and serving the same and therefore it constitutes a composite supply. It further satisfied the following conditions of a composite supply:
(i) Supply of two or more goods or services or both together
(ii) Goods or services or both are usually provided together in the normal course of business.
In the instant case the natur
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here such supply or service is for cash, deferred payment or other valuable consideration.
5.2 Now we come to issue of applicability of GST rate. Since we already held above that the activity of the applicant come under the purview of “restaurant services”, the same falls under Heading 9963 of GST rates on services under Notification No. 11/2017-Central Rate (Tax) dated 28.06.2017 (as amended time to time) and the relevant port on of the same is reproduce as under:
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Heading 9963 (Accommodation, food and beverage services)
Supply, by way of or as part of any service or in any other manner whatsoever, of goods, being food or any other article for human consumption or drink, where such supply or service is for cash, deferred payment or other valuable consideration, provided by a restaurant, eating joint including mess, canteen, whether for consumption on or away from the premi
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