{"id":8361,"date":"2017-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-10-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:30:00","slug":"clarification-on-taxability-of-printing-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=8361","title":{"rendered":"Clarification on taxability of printing contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clarification on taxability of printing contracts<br \/>11\/11\/2017 Dated:- 20-10-2017 CGST &#8211; Circulars \/ Ordes<br \/>GST<br \/>Circular No. 11\/11\/2017-GST<br \/>\nF. No. 354\/263\/2017-TRU<br \/>\nGovernment of India<br \/>\nMinistry of Finance<br \/>\nDepartment of Revenue<br \/>\nTax research Unit<br \/>\n****<br \/>\nNorth Block, New Delhi<br \/>\n20th October 2017<br \/>\nTo,<br \/>\nThe Principal Chief Commissioners\/Chief Commissioners\/ Principal Commissioners\/ Commissioner of Central Tax (All) \/<br \/>\nThe Principal Director Generals\/ Director Generals (All)<br \/>\nMadam\/Sir,<br \/>\nSubject: Clarification on taxability of printing contracts<br \/>\nRequests have been received to clarify whether supply of books, pamphlets, brochures, envelopes, annual reports, leaflets, cartons, boxes etc., printed with design, logo, name, address or other<\/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\/circulars?id=56344\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>. Principal supply has been defined in Section 2(90) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act as supply of goods or services which constitutes the predominant element of a composite supply and to which any other supply forming part of that composite supply is ancillary.<br \/>\n4. In the case of printing of books, pamphlets, brochures, annual reports, and the like, where only content is supplied by the publisher or the person who owns the usage rights to the intangible inputs while the physical inputs including paper used for printing belong to the printer, supply of printing [of the content supplied by the recipient of supply] is the principal supply and therefore such supplies would constitute supply of service falling under heading 9989 of the<\/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\/circulars?id=56344\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarification on taxability of printing contracts11\/11\/2017 Dated:- 20-10-2017 CGST &#8211; Circulars \/ OrdesGSTCircular No. 11\/11\/2017-GST F. No. 354\/263\/2017-TRU Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Tax research Unit **** North Block, New Delhi 20th October 2017 To, The Principal Chief Commissioners\/Chief Commissioners\/ Principal Commissioners\/ Commissioner of Central Tax (All) \/ The Principal Director &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=8361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clarification on taxability of printing contracts&#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-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","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=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}