{"id":77209,"date":"2026-11-02T08:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:31:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:31:40","slug":"alcoholic-strength-proof-determines-whether-fermented-grape-beverages-qualify-as-non-alcoholic-products-for-indirect-tax-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=77209","title":{"rendered":"Alcoholic strength proof determines whether fermented grape beverages qualify as non-alcoholic products for indirect tax classification."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcoholic strength proof determines whether fermented grape beverages qualify as non-alcoholic products for indirect tax classification.<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>Fermentation using yeast prevents a grape-based beverage from being treated as a fruit pulp or fruit juice-based drink for classification purposes. A beverage qualifies as non-alcoholic only where its alcoholic strength does not exceed 0.5% by volume. Available analysis and a later private test report did not provide valid documentary proof of alcoholic strength, so non-alcoholic status could not be established. Consequently, no HSN classification or tax rate was determined, although the beverage was treated as fermented rather than juice-based.<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=105696\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcoholic strength proof determines whether fermented grape beverages qualify as non-alcoholic products for indirect tax classification.Case-LawsGSTFermentation using yeast prevents a grape-based beverage from being treated as a fruit pulp or fruit jui&#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-77209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77209","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=77209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}