Question 1 - What is job-work? - FAQ on GST dated 21.9.2016 based on Draft Model GST

Q 1. What is job-work? Ans. Section 2(62) of the MGL provides that job-work means undertaking any treatment or process by a person on goods belonging to another registered taxable person and the expression job-worker shall be construed accordingly. This definition is much wider than the one given in Notification No. 214/86 CE dated 23rd March, 1986 as amended, wherein job-work has been defined in such a manner so as to ensure that the activity of job-work must amount to manufacture. Thus the definition of jobwork itself reflects the change in basic scheme of taxation relating to job-work in the proposed GST regime.