{"id":9196,"date":"2023-08-02T15:53:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:16:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T10:16:36","slug":"recommendations-of-51st-gst-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/recommendations-of-51st-gst-council-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations of 51st GST Council Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>GST Council recommends certain amendments in CGST Act 2017 and IGST Act 2017,  including amendment in Schedule III  of CGST Act, 2017, to provide  clarity on taxation of supplies in casinos, horse  racing and online gaming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>GST Council also recommends inserting  a specific provision in IGST Act,  2017 to provide for liability to pay  GST on supplier located outside India supplying online money gaming to a person in India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>GST Council recommends GST on  valuation of supply of online gaming  and actionable claims in casinos at  entry level<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The 51st GST Council met under the  Chairpersonship of Union Minister for Finance &amp; Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman via video  conferencing in New Delhi today. The meeting was also attended by Union Minister of State for Finance Shri Pankaj  Chaudhary besides Finance Ministers of States &amp; UTs (with legislature) and senior officers  of the Ministry of Finance &amp; States\/ UTs.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The GST Council in the 50th meeting held  on 11.07.2023 had deliberated on the Second Report of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Casinos, Race  Courses and Online Gaming and had recommended that the actionable claims supplied in Casinos, Horse racing  and Online gaming may be taxed at the rate of 28% on full face value, irrespective of whether the  activities are a game of skill or chance. The Council had also recommended that the law may be amended to provide clarity in the matter<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clip_image003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400px\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clip_image003.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clip_image003-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Accordingly, the GST Council in its 51st meeting  recommended certain amendments in the CGST Act 2017 and IGST Act 2017, including amendment in Schedule III of CGST  Act, 2017, to provide clarity on the taxation  of supplies in casinos, horse racing and online gaming. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The Council also  recommended to insert a specific provision  in IGST Act, 2017 to provide for liability to pay GST on the supply of online money gaming  by a supplier located outside India to a person in India, for single  registration in India for the said supplier  through a simplified registration scheme and also for blocking of access by the  public to any information generated,  transmitted, received or hosted in any computer resource used for supply of  online money gaming by such supplier  in case of failure to comply with provisions of registration and payment of tax.\n  <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The Council also recommended that valuation of supply of  online gaming and actionable claims in casinos  may be done based on the amount paid or payable to or deposited  with the supplier,  by or on behalf of the player (excluding the amount entered into games\/ bets  out of winnings of previous games\/ bets) and not on the total value of each bet placed. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The Council recommended that  CGST Rules, 2017 may be amended to insert specific  provisions for valuation of supply of online gaming and supply of actionable  claims in casino accordingly. The  Council also recommended issuance of certain notifications\/ amendment in  notification related to the issue.\n  <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It was also decided by the Council that effort will be  made to complete the process of making amendments in the Act at the earliest  and bring the amendments into effect from 1st October 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PIB1945208.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press release<\/a><\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=354vo_mpFCs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press conference by Finance Minister  Nirmala Sitharaman &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Agenda_for_51st_GSTCM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Minutes_of_51st.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minutes of meeting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023\/08\/clip_image001.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}