Notification No. 9/2019 – Union Territory Tax (Rate): Seeks to amend notification No. 02/2019- Union Territory Tax (Rate) so as to provide for application of Composition rules to persons opting to pay tax under notification no. 2/2019- Union Territory Tax (Rate).

Important Keyword: Section 21(v) UTGST Act 2017, Section 16(1) CGST Act 2017, Section 7(1) UTGST Act 2017, Section 8(1) UTGST Act 2017, Notification No. 9/2019 – Union Territory Tax (Rate), F.No.354/25/2019-TRU.

[F.No.354/25/2019-TRU]
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)

New Delhi, the 29^th March, 2019

Notification No. 9/2019 – Union Territory Tax (Rate)

GST: [TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZZETE 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 7, sub-section (1) of section 8, clause (v) of section 21 of the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (14 of 2017), read with sub-section (1) of section 16 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017) (herein after referred to as the “said Act”), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, and on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do,

Hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No.02/2019- Union Territory Tax (Rate), dated the 7^th March, 2019, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 191(E), dated the 7^th March, 2019, namely:-

In the said notification, –

(i). in the Table, in column 3, after clause 7, the following clause shall be inserted, namely: –

“8. Where any registered person who has availed of input tax credit opts to pay tax under this notification, he shall pay an amount, by way of debit in the electronic credit ledger or electronic cash ledger, equivalent to the credit of input tax in respect of inputs held in stock and inputs contained in semi-finished or finished goods held in stock and on capital goods as if the supply made under this notification attracts the provisions of section 18(4) of the said Act and the rules made there-under and after payment of such amount, the balance of input tax credit, if any, lying in his electronic credit ledger shall lapse.”;

(ii). in paragraph 3, in the Explanation, after clause (ii), the following clause shall be inserted, namely: –

(iii) the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, as applicable to a person paying tax under section 10 of the said Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to a person paying tax under this notification.”.

2. This notification shall come into force on the 1^st day of April, 2019.

(Pramod Kumar)
Deputy Secretary to the
Government of India

Note: -The principal notification No. 02/2019 – Union Territory Tax (Rate), dated the 7^th March, 2019 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 191 (E), dated the 7^th March, 2019.

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