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July 1, 2022, marked the completion of five years of India’s ambitious Goods and Services Tax (GST) law. The same week also witnessed the 47th GST Council meeting scheduled at Chandigarh for two days- the 28th and 29th of June 2022.
Smt Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the meeting in the presence of the Minister of State for Finance and state ministers, including the MoF (state) Shri Pankaj Chaudary. It was a significant meeting held after several months with many crucial matters, including modification to Form GSTR-3B, rate revisions and withdrawal of exemptions, inversion corrections, and IT-related measures.
The FM also announced that the 48th GST Council meeting is expected to be held in Madurai, Tamil Nadu during the first week of August 2022. The agenda would include the setting up of GST Appellate Tribunals and fixing the GST rate on casinos, online gaming, etc based on the GoM’s report.
FM began to brief the media around 4 p.m. She began by appreciating the efforts of the Chandigarh administration in organising a smooth two-day conference. Four Group of Ministers (GoM) reports were discussed in detail at the meeting. These formed the core agenda of the 47th GST Council meeting. The reports tabled included-
GST Council allowed amendments in GSTR-3B (Monthly GST return for taxpayers). Further, it permitted auto-population of most details in Form GSTR-3B and annual returns in Form GSTR-9 for better compliance and ease in compliance. The Council was clear that the new GST return system would be withdrawn as it is no longer relevant. A proposal for comprehensive alterations in GSTR-3B will be placed before the public for seeking input.
Annual returns for FY 2021-22 may be notified with minimal changes.
The GST Council accepted the interim report of GoM on rate rationalisation
in totality and most of the recommendations by the Fitment Committee.
| Description of goods or services | Old Rate | New Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Solar water heaters and systems | 5% | 12% |
| Prepared or finished leather or chamois leather or composition leathers | 5% | 12% |
| Job work for processing of hides, skins, leather, making of leather products including footwear, and clay brick manufacturing | 5% | 12% |
| Earthwork works contracts and sub-contracts to the Central and state governments, Union Territories and local authorities | 5% | 12% |
| Pawan Chakki being air-based atta chakki, wet grinder, cleaning, sorting or grading machines for seeds and grain pulses, and milling machines or cereal making machines, etc; | 5% | 18% |
| Ink for drawing, printing, and writing | 12% | 18% |
| Knives with paper knives, cutting blades, pencil sharpeners and its blades, skimmers, cake-servers, spoons, forks, ladles, etc | 12% | 18% |
| Centrifugal pumps, submersible pumps deep tube-well turbine pumps, bicycle pumps that are power-driven mainly for handling water | 12% | 18% |
| Milking machines and dairy machinery, cleaning, sorting or grading machines and its parts for eggs, fruit or other agri produce | 12% | 18% |
| Lights and fixture, LED lamps, their metal printed circuits board | 12% | 18% |
| Marking out and drawing instruments | 12% | 18% |
| Services by foreman to chit fund | 12% | 18% |
| Works contract for railways, metro, roads, bridges, effluent treatment plant, crematorium, etc. | 12% | 18% |
| Works contract and sub-contract to the Central and state governments, local authorities for canals, dams, pipelines, plants for water supply, historical monuments, educational institutions, hospitals, etc | 12% | 18% |
| Refund of accumulated ITC for edible oils and coal is disallowed. | ||
| *The rates will come into effect from 18th July 2022 subject to CBIC notification | ||
| Description of goods or services | Old Rate | New Rate |
|---|---|---|
| What's costlier | ||
| Cut and Polished diamonds | 0.25% | 1.50% |
| Tetra Pack (Aseptic Packaging Paper) | 12% | 18% |
| Tar (From coal, or coal gasification plants, or producer gas plants and coke oven plants) | 5%/18% | 18% |
| What's cheaper | ||
| Import of tablets called Diethylcarbamazine (DEC) free of cost for National Filariasis Elimination Programme (IGST) | 5% | Nil |
| Import of particular defence items by private businesses or suppliers for end-consumption of Defence (IGST) | Applicable rates | Nil |
| Ostomy Appliances | 12% | 5% |
| Orthopedic appliances such as intraocular lens, artificial parts of the body, splints and other fracture appliances, other appliances which are worn or carried, or body implants, to compensate for a defect or disability | 12% | 5% |
| Transport of goods and passengers by ropeways (with ITC of services) | 18% | 5% |
| Renting of truck or goods carriage including the fuel cost | 18% | 12% |
| *The rates will come into effect from 18th July 2022 subject to CBIC notification | ||
| Description of goods or services | Old Rate | New Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Earlier fully exempted, now withdrawn | ||
| Maps and hydrographic or similar charts of all kinds, including atlases, wall maps, topographical plans and globes, printed | Nil | 12% |
| Cheques, lose or in book form | Nil | 18% |
| Parts of goods of heading 8801 | Nil | 18% |
| Air transportation of passengers to and from north-eastern states and Bagdogra now restricted to economy class | Nil | Condition added |
| Transportation by rail or a vessel of railway equipment and material, storage or warehousing of commodities attracting tax such as copra, nuts, spices, jaggery, cotton, etc, fumigation in a warehouse of agri produce, services by RBI, IRDA, SEBI, FSSAI, and GSTN, renting of residential dwelling to GST-registered businesses, and services by the cord blood banks for preserving stem cells | Nil | Applicable rate |
| Room rent (excluding ICU) exceeding Rs.5,000 per patient day taxed without ITC | Nil | 5% |
| Common bio-medical waste treatment facilities for treating or disposing biomedical waste shall be taxed with availability of ITC, like CETPs | Nil | 12% |
| Hotel accommodation priced up to Rs.1,000 per day | Nil | 12% |
| Training or coaching in recreational activities on arts or culture, or sports other than by individuals | Nil | Applicable rate |
| Earlier partially exempted, now withdrawn | ||
| Petroleum/ Coal bed methane | 5% | 12% |
| e-Waste | 5% | 18% |
| Scientific and technical instruments to public funded research institutes | 5% | Applicable rate |
| *The rates will come into effect from 18th July 2022 subject to CBIC notification | ||
The GST Council may propose changes to Form GSTR-3B and its reporting. The move aims to fasten the Input Tax Credit (ITC) settlement wherever genuine while curbing any fake ITC claims.
As per the sources, the revised GSTR-3B format would allow reporting of the gross ITC available for claims to the taxpayer, the ITC claimed during the tax period and the net ITC in the electronic credit ledger of the taxpayer.
The Group of Ministers (GoM) for GST rate rationalisation are expected to submit an interim report at the GST Council meeting. The report may propose corrective actions to address the inverted tax structure for some products such as writing, printing or drawing ink, LED lights, lamps and fixtures bearing tax rates from 12% to 18%. Whereas some rates may be increased from 12% to 18% for correction of inversion. The edible oil could not be allowed any accumulated ITC refund despite the inverted tax structure.
The GST Council plans to effectively clarify the taxation of cryptos under GST to track various digital asset transactions. Even though a GST rate may not be fixed in this meeting, exchanges and traders may get clarity on whether or not such crypto transactions could be placed in the highest slab of 28%. But the Fitment Committee desires to dig deeper into this matter and is therefore enquiring with the state governments of Karnataka and Haryana for an exhaustive paper for the GST charges on crypto activities.
According to the initial report of the GoM, which the chief minister of Karnataka leads, the GST Council’s choices should be carefully considered and sensitive to the general people’s needs, particularly when reducing the list of GST exemptions.
Until now, the Fitment Committee has rejected rate revision for the 113 commodities but accepted rate modifications for 14 goods and 22 services.
Bread, kitchenware, tractors, hearing aids, educational institutions, and incense sticks may receive a complete exemption. The exemption on products including honey, food grains, flattened rice, parched rice, puffed rice, cereals, jaggery, packaged curd, lassi, buttermilk, paneer, pappad, and some vegetables may be gradually removed by the Council.
Services provided by the IRDA to insurers, FSSAI to food business operators about registration, SEBI, and the RBI are among the things that may no longer be excluded from GST. The Fitment Committee has proposed that certain defence equipment imported by private parties for national defence purposes be free from basic customs duty and IGST.
The GST Council previously met for the 46th GST Council meeting on 31st December 2021.
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