TMI Blog2020 (6) TMI 485X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ortation of goods into India; The applicant is neither liable to GST on the sale of goods procured from China and directly supplied to USA nor on the sale of goods stored in the warehouse in Netherlands, after being procured from China, to customers, in and around Netherlands as the goods are not imported into India at any point. In the context of 'High Sea Sales', Circular No. 33/2017 Customs dated August 1, 2017 has been issued clarifying that sub section (12) of section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 specifies that all duties, taxes, cesses etc shall be collected at the time of importation i.e. when the import declarations are filed before the customs authorities for the custom clearance purposes - The above circular is applicable in the present case - thus, where, Bill of Entry/import declarations are not being filed with respect to the goods so procured, GST would not be leviable. Whether GST is payable on goods sold to customer located outside India, where goods are shipped directly from the vendor's premises (located outside India) to the customer's premises? - HELD THAT:- The thumb-rule for determining the taxability of any transaction is to ascerta ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... undertake transaction and supply of hardware, commercially known as 'Merchant Trade Transaction', wherein the applicant will receive an order from the customer located outside India and as per their instruction, Vendor would directly ship the goods to customer located outside India. Vendor would issue invoice on applicant against which payment would be made in foreign currency and applicant would raise invoice on customer and would receive consideration in foreign currency. In the above transaction, goods would not physically come into India, but would move from place outside India to another place outside India. 4. The applicant has in their application dated 24.5.2018 raised the following issues for determination before the Authority:- i) Whether GST is payable on goods procured from vendor located outside India in a context where the goods so purchased are not brought into India? ii) Whether GST is payable on goods sold to customer located outside India, where goods are shipped directly from the vendor's premises (located outside India) to the customer's premises? PERSONAL HEARING: 5. Personal hearing was held on 21.6.2018, 12.7.2018 and 5 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... and shall be paid by the taxable person; Provided that the integrated tax on goods imported into India shall be levied and collected in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, on the value determined under the said Act at the point when duties of customs are levied on the said goods under Section 12 of the Customs Act, 1962. 9. The Customs Tariff Act, 1975 was amended by The Taxation Laws Amendment Act, 2017 by introducing sub-section (7) in Section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 with effect from 01.07.2017 to enable collection of integrated tax on the goods imported. The relevant provisions of the amended Section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 reads as follows;- (7) Any article which is imported into India shall, in addition, be liable to integrated tax at such rate, not exceeding forty per cent as is leviable under section 5 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 on a like article on its supply in India, on the value of the imported article as determined under sub-section (8). (8) For the purposes of calculating the integrated tax under sub-section (7) on any imported article where such tax is leviable at a ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... date of entry inwards of the vessel or the arrival of the aircraft or the vehicle by which the goods-are imported, the bill of entry shall be deemed to have been presented on the date of such entry inwards or the arrival, as the case may be. (2) The provisions of this section shall not apply to baggage and goods imported by post. 11. From a combined reading of the above provisions of the IGST Act, 2017, the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, and the Customs Act, 1962, it is evident that the integrated tax on goods imported into India shall be levied and collected at the point when duties of customs are levied on the said goods under Section 12 of the Customs Act, 1962 i.e.-on the date determined as per provisions of Section 15 of the Customs Act, 1962. 12. We find that the issue has already been decided by Authority for Advance Ruling, Kerala vide ORDER No. CT 12275/18-C3 DATED 26/03/2018 in the case of M/s Synthite Industries Ltd., Ernakulam, Kerala = 2018 (4) TMI 583 - AUTHORITY FOR ADVANCE RULING - KERALA . It was held that the goods are liable to IGST when they are imported into India and the IGST is payable at the time of importation of goods into India; The applican ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ods so procured, GST would not be leviable. 14. With regards to the second query regarding leviability of GST on outward supply from place of vendor to customer, it is to mention that the thumb-rule for determining the taxability of any transaction is to ascertain whether the transaction tantamount to 'supply' in terms of the provisions of law. The term 'supply' has been defined at Sec. 7 of the CGST Act, 2017 which reads as under:- (1) For the purposes of this Act, the expression supply includes,- (a) all forms of supply of goods or services or both such as sale, transfer, barter, exchange, licence, rental, lease or disposal made or agreed to be made for a consideration by a person in the course or furtherance of business; (b) import of services for a consideration whether or not in the course or furtherance of business; [and] (c) the activities specified in Schedule I, made or agreed to be made without a consideration; In the instant case, the applicant is selling goods for a consideration in the course or furtherance of business and as such the transaction tantamount to 'supply' in terms of the definition of 'supply'. ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the time at which the movement of goods terminates for delivery to the recipient In the instant case, it is an undisputed fact that the supply involves movement of goods and therefore the place of supply would be the termination for delivery to the recipient. The goods under consideration are supplied to overseas buyers as declared by the applicant and as such the place of supply will be a place outside India. Further, the supplier is the applicant who has declared the principal place of business within India and issues the invoices for sale of such goods. 14.3 The above indicates that the supplier is located in India and the place of supply is outside India and as such the same would be Inter-state supply in terms of the provisions of Sec. 7(5) of IGST Act, 2017. Thus, it is very clear that the transaction undertaken by the applicant tantamount to supply and is an Interstate supply. Having travelled thus far, it is obvious that IGST will be leviable unless the goods are exempted or are zero-rated supplies which have been defined as export of goods or services in terms of the provisions of Sec. 16 of the IGST Act, 2017. In the instant case the applicant has not stated the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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