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2023 (1) TMI 631 - AAAR - GSTClassification of supply - rate of GST - execution of works contract service at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project - Applicability of S.No vi (or) vii of Notification No.24/2017 dated 21.09.2017 attracting GST@12% or 18%? - HELD THAT:- From a joint reading of the MOA of NPCIL and the certificate dt.21.07.2022, it is evident that the works relating to construction of residential quarters are exclusively meant for use of the employees of NPCIL at Kundankulam Project and acquiring such buildings are objectives incidental or ancillary to attainment of the main object of NPCIL, a government entity - the AAR had held that in the absence of substantiation with regard to the fulfillment of the condition that the services were procured by NPCIL, a Government Entity, in relation to the work entrusted to them by the Central government, the concessional rate provided was not available to them. The appellant, through the MOA and the certification from NPCIL has established that the residential quarters constructed at Anuvijay township were meant exclusively for the employees and that as per the MOA, one of the Objects incidental to attainment of the main objects, provide NPCIL to acquire apartments as seen expedient, necessary or convenient to the Company for the purposes of its main object/business. The condition that the services so procured by the Government entity, in this case, NPCIL, is in relation to the work entrusted to it and therefore, the appellant are/were eligible for the concessional rate of tax @6% of CGST plus 6%of SGST as per entry 3(vi) of Notification No. 11/2017-C.T.(Rate) dated 28.06.2017 (as amended) read with the corresponding Notification under TNGSTA for the period upto 31.12.2021.
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