{"id":9938,"date":"2018-01-18T16:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:29:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-01-18T16:59:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:29:40","slug":"non-gst-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=9938","title":{"rendered":"Non GST ITEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non GST ITEM<br \/> Query (Issue) Started By: &#8211; Kiran Ray Dated:- 18-1-2018 Last Reply Date:- 22-1-2018 Goods and Services Tax &#8211; GST<br \/>Got 3 Replies<br \/>GST<br \/>Unbranded Rice is in which category is it exempted,Nil rated or NON GST items<br \/>\nThanks<br \/>\nKiran ray<br \/>\nReply By KASTURI SETHI:<br \/>\nThe Reply:<br \/>\nBrand name must be registered under Trademark Act to attract higher rate of GST<br \/>\nC.B.E. &#038; C. Press Release No. 68\/2017, dated 5-7-2017<br \/>\nReply By Kishan Barai:<br \/>\nThe Reply:<br \/>\nMy query is that, if the brand name &quot;ABC&quot; is not registered under tradmark act then will it attract 5% GST if rice traded under &quot;ABC&quot; Brand name ??<br \/>\nReply By KASTURI SETHI:<br \/>\nThe Reply:<br \/>\nDear Sir, Pl. go through this circular your doubt will be clear.<br \/>\nBrand name mus<\/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=113318\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>017 [which notifies the CGST rates of intra-state supply of goods] and Notification No. 2\/2017-Central Tax (Rate), dated 28th June, 2017 [which exempts intra-state supply of the specified goods] clearly defines &#8220;registered brand name&#8221; as brand name or trade name, which is registered under the Trade Marks Act, 1999. In this regard, Section 2 (w) read with section 2 (t) of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 provide that a registered trade mark means a trade mark which is actually on the Register of Trade Marks and remaining in force.<br \/>\nThus, unless the brand name or trade name is actually on the Register of Trade Marks and is in force under the Trade Marks Act, 1999, CGST rate of 5% will not be applicable on the supply of such goods.<br \/> Discussion For<\/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=113318\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non GST ITEM Query (Issue) Started By: &#8211; Kiran Ray Dated:- 18-1-2018 Last Reply Date:- 22-1-2018 Goods and Services Tax &#8211; GSTGot 3 RepliesGSTUnbranded Rice is in which category is it exempted,Nil rated or NON GST items Thanks Kiran ray Reply By KASTURI SETHI: The Reply: Brand name must be registered under Trademark Act to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=9938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Non GST ITEM&#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-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","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=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}