CBIC Notifies 8 Digit HSN Codes for certain Goods

CBIC issues a Notification No. 90/2020-Central Tax dated 1st December 2020, specifying the list of goods for which 8 Digit HSN code shall be mandatorily mentioned in the tax invoice.

[To be published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i)]

Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

Notification No. 90/2020 – Central Tax

New Delhi, the 1st December, 2020

G.S.R…..(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by the first proviso to rule 46 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.12/2017 – Central Tax, dated the 28th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 660(E), dated the 28th June, 2017, namely:–

In the said notification, after the first proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely, –

Provided further that for class of supply as specified in column (2) and whose HSN Code as specified in column (3) of the Table below, a registered person shall mention eight number of digits of HSN Codes in a tax invoice issued by him under the said rules –

[F. No. CBEC-20/06/04/2020-GST]

(Pramod Kumar)
Director, Government of India

Note: The principal notification number 12/2017 – Central Tax, dated the 28th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R.660(E), dated the 28th June, 2017 and last amended vide notification No. 78/2020-Central Tax, dated the 15th October, 2020, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 638(E), dated the 15th October, 2020.