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GST on repair of Jewellery by Jeweller, Goods and Services Tax - GST

Issue Id: - 118309
Dated: 2-1-2023
By:- ROHIT GOEL

GST on repair of Jewellery by Jeweller


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Dear Experts,

A jeweler is providing services of repair of jewellery to end customers. It is outsourcing this work to job workers who charge it GST at 5%. Further, the jeweler is also invoicing these services to customers at 5%. Department has now raised issue that tax on these services was 18% as per Entry no. 26(iv) of NN 11/2017-CT(Rate) as 5% applies only to job work which only covers services provided by registered person to registered persons as per definition under Section 2 of CGST Act 2017.

Kindly advice correct course of action in this regard.

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1 Dated: 2-1-2023
By:- Amit Agrawal

Prima-facie, Repairing services - provided by the jeweler to his customers - falls under HSC 9987 and not under HSC 9988. And as per Serial No. 25 (ii) of Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (Rate) (as amended till date), applicable rate of tax is 18 % (9% + 9%).

These are ex facie views of mine and the same should not be construed as professional advice / suggestion.


2 Dated: 2-1-2023
By:- Amit Agrawal

However, if any material (i.e. gold) is used in such repairing work & if it is composite supply (consisting of supply of gold (i.e. goods) as well as labor (i.e. services) in the form of repairing, which are naturally bundled and supplied in conjunction with each other in the ordinary course of business, one of which is a principal supply), then, one needs to first determine what is 'principal supply'. And applicable tax-rate for entire activity will be the 'tax-rate applicable for such principal supply'.

These are ex facie views of mine and the same should not be construed as professional advice / suggestion.


3 Dated: 4-1-2023
By:- Shilpi Jain

Job work definition covers treatment / process undertaken on goods of REGISTERED PERSONS.

So 5% if JW done for a registered person and 18% otherwise

Circular No. 126/45/2019-GST, dated 22-11-2019 is relevant for this


4 Dated: 9-1-2023
By:- Ganeshan Kalyani

18% GST is applicable


5 Dated: 11-1-2023
By:- vijay kumar

There are 2 aspects - (i) GST at the hands of job worker and (ii) GST at the hands of the principal who is getting this done on job work..

For the job worker, the classifn is under SAC 9988. GST rate would depend on whether the principal is registered or not and accordingly it would be 12% or 18% respectively (entry 26 (id) or (iv) of Nofn.11/2017). For the jeweler principal, he is providing the service of Repair of jewelery which is classifiable under 998722 which would attract GST rate of 18% under entry 25(ii) of the said Nofn.

Accordingly, 5% rate seems to be incorrect.


6 Dated: 12-1-2023
By:- Amit Agrawal

As per query, subject services of in nature of 'repairs of jewellery' which are owned by end-customers of the jeweler.

Description of HSN 9988 (i.e. Manufacturing services on physical inputs owned by others) - Explanatory Notes to the Scheme of Classification of Services - is as under:

"The services included under Heading 9988 are performed on physical inputs owned by units other than the units providing the service. As such, they are characterized as outsourced portions of a manufacturing process or a complete outsourced manufacturing process. Since this Heading covers manufacturing services, the output is not owned by the unit providing this service. Therefore, the value of the services in this Heading is based on the service fee paid, not the value of the goods manufactured."

To my mind, GST @ 5 % at the hands of alleged job-worker is also incorrect. Correct tax-rate thereof is 18% as per Serial No. 25 (ii) of Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (Rate) (as amended till date).

This is becuase, in my view, the subject services are falling under HSN 9987 (i.e. Maintenance, repair and installation (except construction) services), more specifically under HSN 998722 (i.e. Repair services of watches, clocks and jewellery) & NOT under HSN 9988 (i.e. (i.e. Manufacturing services on physical inputs owned by others)) OR more particularly, under HSN 998892 (i.e. Jewellery manufacturing services).

These are ex facie views of mine and the same should not be construed as professional advice / suggestion. And I respect contrary views.


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