SCHEDULE V - PERSONS LIABLE TO BE REGISTERED - MODEL GST LAW - Draft The Central / State Goods and Services Tax Act, 2016 - [November 2016]

SCHEDULE V PERSONS LIABLE TO BE REGISTERED 1. Every supplier shall be liable to be registered under this Act in the State from where he makes a taxable supply of goods and/or services if his aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds twenty lakh rupees: PROVIDED that where such person makes taxable supplies of goods and/or services from any of the States specified in sub-clause (g) of clause (4) of Article 279A of the Constitution, he shall be liable to be registered if his aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds ten lakh rupees. (Other than Special Category States) 2. Every supplier shall be liable to be registered under this Act in the State from where he makes a taxable supply of goods and/or services if his aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds ten lakh rupees: (Special Category States) Explanation 1.- The aggregate turnover shall include all supplies made by the taxable person, whether on his own account or made on behalf of all his principals. Explanation 2.- The supply of goods, after completion of job-work, by a registered job-worker shall be treated as the supply of goods by the principal referred to in section 55, and the value of such goods shall not be included in the aggregate turnover of the registered job worker. 2. The following persons shall not be liable to registration (a) any person engaged exclusively in the business of supplying goods and/or services that are not liable to tax or are wholly exempt from tax under this Act; (b) an agriculturist, for the purpose of agriculture. 3. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 1, every person who, on the day immediately preceding the appointed day, is registered or holds a license under an earlier law, shall be liable to be registered under this Act with effect from the appointed day. 4. Where a business carried on by a taxable person registered under this Act is transferred, whether on account of succession or otherwise, to another person as a going concern, the transferee, or the successor, as the case may be, shall be liable to be registered with effect from the date of such transfer or succession. 5. Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph 1 and 3 above, in a case of transfer pursuant to sanction of a scheme or an arrangement for amalgamation or, as the case may be, de-merger of two or more companies by an order of a High Court, the transferee shall be liable to be registered, where required, with effect from the date on which the Registrar of Companies issues a certificate of incorporation giving effect to such order of the High Court. 6. Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph 1 and 3 above, the following categories of persons shall be required to be registered under this Act: (i) persons making any inter-State taxable supply, irrespective of the threshold specified under paragraph 1; (ii) casual taxable persons, irrespective of the threshold specified under paragraph 1; (iii) persons who are required to pay tax under reverse charge, irrespective of the threshold specified under paragraph 1; (iv) persons who are required to pay tax under sub-section (4) of section 8, irrespective of the threshold specified under paragraph 1; (v) non-resident taxable persons, irrespective of the threshold specified under paragraph 1; (vi) persons who are required to deduct tax under section 46, whether or not separately registered under this Act; (vii) persons who are required to collect tax under 56, whether or not separately registered under the Act; (viii) persons who supply goods and/or services on behalf of other taxable persons whether as an agent or otherwise, irrespective of the threshold specified under paragraph 1; (ix) input service distributor, whether or not separately registered under the Act; (x) persons who supply goods and/or services, other than supplies specified under sub-section (4) of section 8, through such electronic commerce operator who is required to collect tax at source under section 56, irrespective of the threshold specified in paragraph 1; (xi) every electronic commerce operator, irrespective of the threshold specified in paragraph 1; (xii) every person supplying online information and database access or retrieval services from a place outside India to a person in India, other than a registered taxable person; and (xiii) such other person or class of persons as may be notified by the Central Government or a State Government on the recommendation of the Council. ***