Monday 22 May 2017

GST - Registration

Who shall get registered?

1.          Every supplier shall get registered if his aggregate turnover exceeds :

·            Rs. 10 Lakhs, if the person making supply of taxable goods and/or services is in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand
·            Rs. 20 Lakhs, if the person making supply of taxable goods and/or services is in any other state.

2.          The following persons shall also get registered under the act apart from the persons whose taxable supply of goods exceeds the aforesaid limits.

·            Persons making any inter-State taxable supply
·            Casual taxable persons
·            Persons who are required to pay tax under reverse charge
·            Electronic commerce operator of such services as may be notified by Central or State Government under Section 8(4) Central / State Goods and Services Tax Act, 2016.
·            Non-resident taxable persons
·            Persons who are required to deduct tax under section 46.
·            Persons who are required to collect tax under 56.
·            Persons who supply goods and/or services on behalf of other taxable persons whether as an agent or otherwise
·            Input service distributor, whether or not separately registered under the Act
·            Person who supplies goods and/or services, other than supplies specified under sub-section (4) of section 8, through electronic commerce operator required to collect tax under Section 56.
·            every electronic commerce operator
·            every person supplying online information and database access or retrieval services from a place outside India to a person in India, other than a registered taxable person

3.          Any person can voluntarily get registered though not required to get registered as per the provisions of the act.


·            “Casual taxable person” means a person who occasionally undertakes transactions involving supply of goods and/or services in the course or furtherance of business whether as principal, agent or in any other capacity, in a taxable territory where he has no fixed place of business
·            As per Section 23(1), a casual taxable person or a non-resident taxable person shall apply for registration at least five days prior to the commencement of business
·            Section 8(4) specifies that in respect of certain notified services, the tax shall be paid by the electronic commerce operator.
·            Section 56(4) specifies in respect of other than services referred to in Section 8(4), the electronic service operator shall collect an amount calculated at the rate of one percent of value of the services.
·    Every person other than a non-resident shall have a PAN before seeking registration. 

Computation of Aggregate turnover:

All taxable supplies excluding non-taxable supplies                                                        XXXX
Exempt supplies                                                                                                                XXXX
 Exports of Goods and/or Services                                                                                    XXXX
 Inter-State supplies of a person having the same PAN, to be computed
on all India basis                                                                                                                XXXX
 Excludes:
Taxes charged under the CGST Act, SGST Act and IGST Act                                         XXXX
Shall not include:
Value of inward supplies on which tax is payable
 under Section 8(3) of the Model CGST/SGST Act, 2016                                                 XXXX
Value of inward supplies                                                                                                     XXXX
 Net Total (Aggregate Turnover)                                                                                      XXXX