{"id":76702,"date":"2026-09-21T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:57:05","slug":"local-authority-status-under-gst-excludes-statutory-bodies-outside-enumerated-categories-limiting-kerala-water-authority-s-works-contract-concession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=76702","title":{"rendered":"Local authority status under GST excludes statutory bodies outside enumerated categories, limiting Kerala Water Authority&#8217;s works-contract concession."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local authority status under GST excludes statutory bodies outside enumerated categories, limiting Kerala Water Authority&#39;s works-contract concession.<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>GST local-authority status is confined to bodies expressly enumerated in the CGST\/KGST definition; a statutory body is not included merely because its constituting State law deems it a local authority. Accordingly, works contract services supplied to Kerala Water Authority attract GST at 18% from 1 January 2022 rather than the concessional local-authority rate. On delayed differential GST, interest applies only to the portion discharged through the electronic cash ledger, not to the portion paid through the electronic credit ledger.<br \/> TMI Updates &#8211; Highlights, quick notes, marquee, annotation, news, alerts <\/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\/highlights?id=103997\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local authority status under GST excludes statutory bodies outside enumerated categories, limiting Kerala Water Authority&#8217;s works-contract concession.Case-LawsGSTGST local-authority status is confined to bodies expressly enumerated in the CGST\/KGST def&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76702","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=76702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}