ITC of IGST paid on import of goods allowed even if goods are sold directly from port of importation without bringing such goods into Premises of taxpayer: AAR

The applicant M/s. Euroflex Transmissions (India) Private Limited wishes to supply some of the imported goods directly from the port of importation to the customers located across different states in India without bringing such goods to the Applicant’s registered premises located in the State of Telangana by raising tax invoice from Telangana location. Hence this application with Advance Ruling Authority (AAR)

Questions raised:

1. Whether the Applicant is required to obtain registration in the state in which goods are imported if the said goods are directly sold from the port of importation to the customers located across different states in India.

2. Whether the Applicant is entitled to avail Input Tax Credit of IGST paid on import of goods if the said goods are sold directly from the port of importation to the customers located across different states in India, without bringing such goods into Telangana?

Ruling

The liability for registration arises under Section 22 of the CGST Act, 2017 if the supplier makes taxable supplies the aggregate turnover of which exceeds Rs. 20 Lakhs in a financial year. Such registration is to be obtained in the State from which the taxable supply is made.

Further, in the case of supply of goods made from a customs warehouse, such supply is not treated as supply of goods under Entry 8 of the Schedule III to the CGST Act, 2017 if it is a:

a. Supply of warehoused goods to any person before clearance for home consumption.
b. Supply of goods by the consignee to any other person, by endorsement of documents of title to the goods, after the goods have been dispatched from the port of origin located outside India but before clearance for home consumption.

As seen from the material papers submitted by the applicant it is observed that they are not seeking clarification on supplies which are in nature described in Entry 8 of Schedule III to the CGST Act, 2017. Evidently, after clearing the goods by paying customs duty and IGST the applicant is making inter-state supply of the same from the customs warehouse without taking such goods to their own business premises.

The transactions made by the applicant after clearing them from customs in their own account are subsequent sales and not sales in course of import, where the customs clearance will be made by the purchaser in which case the transactions will be covered under Entry 8 of Schedule III to the CGST Act, 2017 prescribed above. Therefore this subsequent sale when made to a customer within the State of Telangana will be an intra State sale liable to CGST & SGST and when such sale is made to a customer in other States of a country it will be a Inter-State sale liable to IGST. Being a taxable sale the person making such taxable sales is liable to take registration under CGST Act, 2017. It is seen that the applicant has already obtained a registration with GSTIN: 36AAACE5313K1ZS. Therefore this registration is sufficient to cover the transactions or supplies in nature described by the applicant.

Under Section 16 of the CGST Act, 2017 read with Section 20 of IGST Act, the IGST paid on imports is eligible to be availed as Input Tax Credit (ITC) both on intra-state and inter-state sales.