Deepak Gupta | Jul 26, 2018 |
Notification No. 21/2018 -Central Tax (Rate) Seeks to prescribe concessional CGST rate on specified handicraft items
[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)
Notification No. 21/2018 -Central Tax (Rate)
New Delhi, the 26th July, 2018
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 11 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby exempts the intra-state supplies of handicraft goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading or Chapter, as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), from so much central tax leviable thereon under section 9 of the said Act as is in excess of the rate specified in column (4) of the said Table.
Explanation – For the purpose of this notification, the expression handicraft goods means Goods predominantly made by hand even though some tools or machinery may also have been used in the process; such goods are graced with visual appeal in the nature of ornamentation or in-lay work or some similar work of a substantial nature; possess distinctive features, which can be aesthetic, artistic, ethnic or culturally attached and are amply different from mechanically produced goods of similar utility.
[F.No.354/255/2018 TRU]
(Gunjan Kumar Verma)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
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