{"id":11476,"date":"2018-04-19T12:37:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T07:07:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-04-19T12:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T07:07:54","slug":"legal-fees-under-reverse-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=11476","title":{"rendered":"Legal Fees under Reverse Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Fees under Reverse Charge<br \/> Query (Issue) Started By: &#8211; Basha AbdulRazack Dated:- 19-4-2018 Last Reply Date:- 20-4-2018 Goods and Services Tax &#8211; GST<br \/>Got 6 Replies<br \/>GST<br \/>Sir,<br \/>\nWe are paying monthly Retainer Fees to Advocate but they are not charging GST, so Reverse Charge mechanism is applicable or not, please clarify.<br \/>\nThanks &#038; Regards<br \/>\nRazack.<br \/>\nReply By KASTURI SETHI:<br \/>\nThe Reply:<br \/>\nLegal services are under RCM. Recently Board has clarified.<br \/>\nReply By Basha AbdulRazack:<br \/>\nThe Reply:<br \/>\nSir,<br \/>\nThank you for your clarification but Reverse Chage mechanisim rule for Epxenses cancelled till 30.06.2018, so advocate fees come under this category or not? please confirm once again to proceed further.<br \/>\nThanks &#038; Regards<br \/>\nRazack<br \/>\nReply By Rajag<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/forum\/issue?id=113644\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p> 9 (4) of CGST Act, 2017 is exempted up to 30.6.2018 vide Notification No.8\/2017-Central Tax (Rate) dated 28.6.2017 as amended.<br \/>\nReply By Susheel Gupta:<br \/>\nThe Reply:<br \/>\nThere are two sections of RCM<br \/>\nSection 9(3) &#8211; which requires payment on RCM on advocate fees, transportation charges. etc.<br \/>\nSection 9(4) &#8211; which requires payment on RCM on purchases from unregistered suppliers<br \/>\nSection 9(4) has been deferred till 30.06.2018. But u need to pay GST on advocate fees under section 9(3) which has not been deferred and still applicable.<br \/>\nRegards<br \/>\nCA Susheel Gupta<br \/>\n9811004443, 8510081001<br \/>\nReply By Basha AbdulRazack:<br \/>\nThe Reply:<br \/>\nDear Sirs,<br \/>\nThank you very much for giving detailed explanations to Mr. Rajagopalan Ranganathan Sir &#038; Mr. Susheel Gupta Sir.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/forum\/issue?id=113644\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Fees under Reverse Charge Query (Issue) Started By: &#8211; Basha AbdulRazack Dated:- 19-4-2018 Last Reply Date:- 20-4-2018 Goods and Services Tax &#8211; GSTGot 6 RepliesGSTSir, We are paying monthly Retainer Fees to Advocate but they are not charging GST, so Reverse Charge mechanism is applicable or not, please clarify. Thanks &#038; Regards Razack. Reply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=11476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Legal Fees under Reverse Charge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}