Question 1 - What is job work? - Faq On GST (2nd Edition) Dated 31.3.2017

9. Job Work Q 1. Q 1. What is job work? Ans. Job work means undertaking any treatment or process by a person on goods belonging to another registered taxable person. The person who is treating or processing the goods belonging to other person is called job worker and the person to whom the goods belongs is called principal . This definition is much wider than the one given in Notification No. 214/86 CE dated 23rd March, 1986. In the said notification, 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 job work itself reflects the change in basic scheme of taxation relating to job work in the proposed GST regime.