{"id":17321,"date":"2019-03-13T12:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:56:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:56:04","slug":"rcm-applicability-on-cotton-freight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=17321","title":{"rendered":"RCM applicability on Cotton Freight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RCM applicability on Cotton Freight<br \/> Query (Issue) Started By: &#8211; Balakrishnan Ramalingam Dated:- 13-3-2019 Last Reply Date:- 30-8-2019 Goods and Services Tax &#8211; GST<br \/>Got 5 Replies<br \/>GST<br \/>My clients Spinning Mills are paying Lorry Freight payment for purchase of Cotton &#8211; Inter State. Please clarify whether RCM is applicable under GTA for the above Lorry Freight Payment?<br \/>\nReply By Rajagopalan Ranganathan:<br \/>\nThe Reply:<br \/>\nSir,<br \/>\nYou have to pay GST on freight under reverse charge if you procure cotton from agriculturist vide Sl. No. 4A of Notification No. 4\/2017-Central tax (Rate) dated 28..6.2017 as amended.<br \/>\nReply By Balakrishnan Ramalingam:<br \/>\nThe Reply:<br \/>\nSir,<br \/>\nI am refering about Freight on Cotton purchase (GTA) and not cotton per se. The a<\/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=114743\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>gal requirement as GTA but at the same time non-issuance of consignment note cannot be adopted as modus operandi.<br \/>\n(2) If any agricultural produce is subjected to process (by cultivator or producer) which alters the basic character of the same, that would fall out of definition of agriculture produce. For example : jaggery, Sugar etc.In this scenario and GST is applicable.<br \/>\n(3) if we treat cotton as agricultural produce, no GST is applicable under RCM. It is exempted vide serial No.21 of Notification No.12\/17-CT(Rate) dated 28.6.17 as amended.<br \/>\n(4). In my view, raw cotton is agricultural produce and cotton is not agricultural produce inasmuch as Raw cotton is subjected to various processes before being converted into cotton through machine<\/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=114743\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCM applicability on Cotton Freight Query (Issue) Started By: &#8211; Balakrishnan Ramalingam Dated:- 13-3-2019 Last Reply Date:- 30-8-2019 Goods and Services Tax &#8211; GSTGot 5 RepliesGSTMy clients Spinning Mills are paying Lorry Freight payment for purchase of Cotton &#8211; Inter State. Please clarify whether RCM is applicable under GTA for the above Lorry Freight Payment? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=17321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RCM applicability on Cotton Freight&#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-17321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321","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=17321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}