Notification No. 03/2018 - UTGST Explained

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Notification No. 03/2018 - Union Territory Tax (Rate): Seeks to amend notification No. 13/2017- Central Tax (Rate) so as to specify services supplied by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority by way of renting of immovable property to a registered person under CGST Act, 2017 to be taxed under Reverse Charge Mechanism (RCM).

GST: [TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]

GSR......(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 7 of the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (14 of 2017), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.13/2017- Union Territory Tax (Rate), dated the 28^thJune, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 704(E), dated the 28^thJune, 2017, namely:-

In the said notification,-

in the Table, after serial number 5 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and the entries relating thereto shall be inserted, namely: -

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
“5A	Services supplied by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority by way of renting of immovable property to a person registered under the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017).	Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority	Any person registered under the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 read with clause (vi) of section 21 of Union Territory Goods and Services Act, 2017”;

in the Explanation, after clause (e), the following clause shall be inserted, namely: -

‘(f) “insurance agent” shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (10) of section 2 of the Insurance Act, 1938 (4 of 1938).’.

(Ruchi Bisht)
Under Secretary to the
Government of India

Note: -The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide notification No. 13/2017 - Union Territory Tax (Rate), dated the 28^th June, 2017, vide number

G.S.R. 704 (E), dated the 28^thJune, 2017 and was last amended by notification No. 33/2017 - Union Territory Tax (Rate), dated the 13^th October, 2017 vide number G.S.R. 1281 (E), dated the 13^th October, 2017.

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