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Agriculturists, small traders exempt from registering under GST

It added that an agriculturist (defined as someone who supplies produce out of cultivation of land) would not be liable to register under the GST regime.

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Agriculturists, small traders exempt from registering under GST
The GST Council has decided to keep the revenue exemption limit at Rs 20 lakh for all states. Photo: Reuters
Written By: PTI
Updated: Sun, Mar 05, 2017
10:07 am
New Delhi, PTI
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The Centre and states have decided to exempt agriculturists from registering under the Goods and Services Tax regime, while the threshold for traders has been set at Rs 20 lakh turnover.

The GST Council has also empowered commissioner-level officers to allow payment of GST levy by a taxpayer in instalments in order to mitigate any financial hardship being suffered by a taxpayer.

The GST Council, comprising Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and his state counterparts, today vetted the Central GST (CGST) and Integrated GST (IGST) bills, clearing decks for their introduction in the second leg of the Budget session of Parliament beginning next week.

The GST Council has decided to keep the revenue exemption limit at Rs 20 lakh for all states with the exception of North-Eastern and the hill states where the limit will be Rs 10 lakh.

"A business entity with an annual turnover of up to Rs 20 lakhs would not be required to take registration in the GST regime, unless he voluntarily chooses to do so to be a part of the input tax credit (ITC) chain," a Finance Ministry statement said.

It added that an agriculturist (defined as someone who supplies produce out of cultivation of land) would not be liable to register under the GST regime.

With regard to exporters, the Council has decided that 90 per cent of the refunds claim will be made within seven days of filing the application.

"To prevent lock-in of capital of exporters, a provision has been made to by an exporter, 90 per cent of the claimed amount on a provisional basis," the statement added.

Further, business entities with turnover of up to Rs 50 lakh can avail a composition scheme under which it has to pay a much lower rate of tax and has to fulfil very minimal compliance requirements. The scheme is available for all traders, select manufacturing sectors and for restaurants in the services sector.

Also, the CGST and IGST bill provides for an anti- profiteering provision to ensure that the reduction of tax incidence is passed on to consumers.

"In order to prevent cascading of taxes, ITC would be admissible on all goods and services used in the course or furtherance of business, except on a few items listed in the law," the statement added.

The Council has decided on state-wise single registration for a taxpayer for filing returns, paying taxes, and to fulfil other compliance requirements.

"Most of the compliance requirements would be fulfilled online, thus leaving very little room for physical interface between the taxpayer and the tax official," the ministry said.

A taxpayer has to file a single return state-wise to report all his supplies, whether made within or outside the state or exported out of the country and pay the applicable taxes on them, it added.

In order to ensure that ITC can be used seamlessly for payment of taxes under the Central and state law, it has been provided that the ITC entitlement arising out of taxes paid under the central law can be cross-utilised for payment of taxes under the laws of the states or union territories.

For example, a taxpayer can use the ITC accruing to him due to payment of IGST to discharge his tax liability of CGST/ SGST/UTGST. Conversely, a taxpayer can use the ITC accruing to him on account of payment of CGST/SGST/UTGST, for payment of IGST. Such payments are to be made in a pre-defined order, it added.

"In order to ensure a single administrative interface for taxpayers, a provision has been made to authorise officers of the tax administrations of the Centre and states to exercise the powers conferred under all Acts," it said.

In order to provide certainty in tax matters, a provision has been made for an Advance Ruling Authority and exhaustive provisions for appellate mechanism have been made.

"Detailed transitional provisions have been provided to ensure migration of existing taxpayers and seamless transfer of unutilised ITC in the GST regime," it added.

PwC India Indirect Tax Leader Pratik Jain said approval of these legislations is a decisive step towards GST rollout.

"It seems that Council has agreed to all the legislative suggestions of the states including those relating to cross empowerment under IGST laws. With this, I don't see any roadblock in GST becoming a reality from July 1," he said.

Deloitte Haskins and Sells LLP Senior Director (Indirect Tax) M S Mani said July 1 deadline is likely to be a reality and business houses should move ahead on a "war footing to get GST ready".

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