Notification No. 27/2019 – Central Tax (Rate): Seeks to further amend notification No. 01/2017-Central Tax (Rate), to change the rate of GST on goods as per recommendations of the GST Council in its 38th Meeting.

Important Keyword: F.No.354/201/2019-TRU, Notification No. 27/2019 – Central Tax (Rate), Section 9(1) CGST Act 2017, Section 15(5) CGST Act 2017, Notification No.1/2017-Central Tax (Rate), Notification No. 14/2019- Central Tax (Rate).

[F.No.354/201/2019-TRU]
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)

New Delhi, the 30^th December, 2019

Notification No. 27/2019 – Central Tax (Rate)

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

G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 9 and sub-section (5) of section 15 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 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.1/2017-Central Tax (Rate), dated the 28^th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 673(E), dated the 28^th June, 2017, namely:-

In the said notification, –

• in Schedule II – 6%, serial numbers 80AA and 171A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted;

• in Schedule III – 9%, after serial number 163A and the entries relating thereto, the following serial numbers and entries shall be inserted, namely: –

“163B	3923 or 6305	Woven and non-woven bags and sacks of polyethylene or polypropylene strips or the like, whether or not laminated, of a kind used for packing of goods;
163C	6305 32 00	Flexible intermediate bulk containers”.

2.    This notification shall come into force on the 1^st day of January, 2020.

(Gunjan Kumar Verma)
Under Secretary to the
Government of India

Note: – The principal notification No.1/2017-Central Tax (Rate), dated the 28^th June, 2017 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 673(E), dated the 28^th June, 2017 and was last amended by notification No. 14/2019- Central Tax(Rate), dated the 30^th September, 2019, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number GSR 709(E), dated the 30th September, 2019.

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