Notify the State Tax rate of 2.5 per cent on intra-State supplies of goods Food preparations put up in unit containers - S.O. 158/P.A.5/2017/S.9/2018 - Punjab SGST

GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB DEPARTMENT OF EXCISE AND TAXATION (EXCISE AND TAXATION-II BRANCH) NOTIFICATION The 14th December, 2018 No. S.O. 158/P.A.5/2017/S.9/2018. - In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 9 of the Punjab Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (Punjab Act No. 5 of 2017), and all other powers enabling him in this behalf, the Governor of Punjab, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby notifies the state tax rate of 2.5 per cent on intra State supplies of goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table given below, falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading or Chapter, as the case may be, as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), subject to the condition specified in column (4) of the said Table, namely:- Table Sl. No. Tariff item, sub- heading heading or Chapter Description of Goods Condition (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. 19 or 21 Food preparations put up in unit containers and intended for free distribution to econo- mically weaker sections of the society under a programme duly approved by the Central Government or any State Government. When the supplier of such food preparations produces a certificate from an officer not below the rank of the Deputy Secretary to the Government of India or the Deputy Secretary to the State Government or the Deputy Secretary in the Union Territory concerned to the effect that such food preparations have been distributed free to the economically weaker sections of the society under a programme duly approved by the Central Government or the State Government concerned, within a period of five months from the date of supply of such goods or within such further period as the jurisdictional commissioner of the Central tax or jurisdictional commissioner of the State tax, or jurisdictional officer of the Union Territory Tax as the case may be, may allow in this regard. Explanation. (1) In this notification, tariff item , sub-heading heading and Chapter shall mean respectively a tariff item, heading, sub-heading and Chapter as specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975). (2) The rules for the interpretation of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act, 1975, including the Section and Chapter Notes and the General Explanatory Notes of the First Schedule shall, so far as may be, apply to the interpretation of this notification. This notification shall be deemed to have come into force on and with effect from the 18th October, 2017 M.P. SINGH, Additional Chief Secretary-cum- Financial Commissioner (Taxation) to Government of Punjab, Department of Excise and Taxation.