{"id":7027,"date":"2017-08-09T14:40:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T09:10:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-08-09T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T09:10:44","slug":"reduced-tax-liability-on-homes-under-gst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=7027","title":{"rendered":"Reduced tax liability on homes under GST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reduced tax liability on homes under GST <br \/>GST<br \/>Dated:- 9-8-2017<br \/><BR>=============<br \/>\nDocument 1<br \/>\ndavp 15502\/13\/0144\/1718<br \/>\nJAGO<br \/>\nGRAHAK<br \/>\nJAGO<br \/>\n==<br \/>\nGST<br \/>\nNATION<br \/>\nTAX<br \/>\nMARKET<br \/>\n==<br \/>\n==<br \/>\nGOOD NEWS<br \/>\nFOR<br \/>\nHOME<br \/>\nBUYERS<br \/>\n=== == =<br \/>\nReduced tax liability<br \/>\non homes under GST<br \/>\nThe CBEC and States have received many complaints that in view of the works contract<br \/>\nservice tax rate under GST at 12% in respect of under construction flats, complex etc, the people<br \/>\nwho have booked flats and made part payment before 1st July, 2017, are being asked to<br \/>\nbear higher tax incidence for payments made after 1st July, 2017. This is against the GST law,<br \/>\nas explained below.<br \/>\nConstruction of flats, complex, buildings have a lower incidence of GST as compared to a<br \/>\nplet<\/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\/news?id=18611\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>ction material was<br \/>\nearlier being borne by the builders, which they passed on to the customers as part of the price<br \/>\ncharged from them. This was not visible to the customer as it formed a part of the cost of the flat.<br \/>\n\u2022 The earlier headline rate of service tax on construction of flats, residences, offices etc. was 4.5%. Over and above<br \/>\nthis, VAT @1% under composition scheme was also charged. The buyer only looked at the headline rate of 5.5%.<br \/>\nIn other Cities\/States, where VAT was being levied under the composition scheme @2% or above, the headline<br \/>\nrate visible to the customer was above 6.5%. What the customer did not see is the embedded taxes on account of<br \/>\ncascading and sticking of input taxes in the cost of the flat etc.<br \/>\n\u2022<\/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\/news?id=18611\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduced tax liability on homes under GST GSTDated:- 9-8-2017============= Document 1 davp 15502\/13\/0144\/1718 JAGO GRAHAK JAGO == GST NATION TAX MARKET == == GOOD NEWS FOR HOME BUYERS === == = Reduced tax liability on homes under GST The CBEC and States have received many complaints that in view of the works contract service tax &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=7027\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reduced tax liability on homes under GST&#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-7027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027","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=7027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}