GST composition scheme limit hiked to Rs 1.5 crore [Read Notification]

In line with decisions taken in the recommendations made by GST Council in it’s 32nd GST Council meeting Ministry of Finance vide Notification No. 14/2019 Central Tax dated 7th March, 2019 has extended the limit of threshold of aggregate turnover for availing Composition Scheme under section 10 of the Central Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017 to Rs. 1.5 crores from existing Rs. 1 Crore.

This GST composition scheme limit notification shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 2019.

The GST composition scheme limit notification is given below for reference:

GST composition scheme limit hiked to Rs 1.5 crore [Read Notification]

[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. 14/2019 Central Tax

New Delhi, the 7th March, 2019

G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred under the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 10 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017) (hereinafter referred to as the said Act),and in supersession of the notification no 8/2017- Central Tax, dated the 27th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 647 (E), dated the 27th June, 2017, except as things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby specifies that an eligible registered person, whose aggregate turnover in the preceding financial year did not exceed one crore and fifty lakh rupees, may opt to pay, in lieu of the tax payable by him under sub-section (1) of section 9 of the said Act, an amount of tax as prescribed under rule 7 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017:

Provided that the said aggregate turnover in the preceding financial year shall be seventy five lakh rupees in the case of an eligible registered person, registered under section 25 of the said Act, in any of the following States, namely:

(i) Arunachal Pradesh,

(ii) Manipur,

(iii) Meghalaya,

(iv) Mizoram,

(v) Nagaland,

(vi) Sikkim,

(vii) Tripura,

(viii) Uttarakhand:

Provided further that the registered person shall not be eligible to opt for composition levy under sub-section (1) of section 10 of the said Act if such person is a manufacturer of the goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below and falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading or Chapter, as the case may be, as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table, namely:-

TABLE

Explanation.

(i) In this Table, tariff item, sub-heading, heading and chapter shall mean respectively a tariff item, sub-heading, heading and chapters as specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975).

(ii) The rules for the interpretation of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), including the Section and Chapter Notes and the General Explanatory Notes of the First Schedule shall, so far as may be, apply to the interpretation of this notification.

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

[F. No. 20/06/16/2018-GST (Pt. II)]

(Dr. Sreeparvathy S.L.)

Under Secretary to the Government of India