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2022 (6) TMI 252

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..... on head count/actual number of candidates - According to the applicant, the chapter heading 9963 at serial no. 14 of Notification No. 12/2017 dt: 28.06.2017 describes such services for residential or lodging purposes and exempts the same if the value of supply of a unit of accommodation is below Rs.1000/- per day. The applicant states that he is charging only Rs.9000/- per month which amounts to Rs.300/- per day for both accommodation and food as a composite supply. Further that the supply of food is ancillary to accommodation and accommodation being the principle supply, hence he claims that their service is exempt from tax in view of this entry. As seen from the information serviced by the applicant, the rent is fixed at the rate of .....

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..... ) has filed an application in FORM GST ARA-01 under Section 97(1) of TGST Act, 2017 read with Rule 104 of CGST/TGST Rules. 2. At the outset, it is made clear that the provisions of both the CGST Act and the TGST Act are the same except for certain provisions. Therefore, unless a mention is specifically made to any dissimilar provisions, a reference to the CGST Act would also mean a reference to the same provision under the TGST Act. Further, for the purposes of this Advance Ruling, the expression GST Act would be a common reference to both CGST Act and TGST Act. 3. It is observed that the queries raised by the applicant fall within the ambit of Section 97 of the GST ACT. The Applicant enclosed copies of challans as proof of payment .....

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..... althcare related vocational program under Deendayal Upadyay Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) by charging Rs.9000/- per candidate per month; of which Rs.3500/- is towards rent for accommodation at fixed cost and Rs.5500/- towards food on head count/actual number of candidates. According to the applicant, the chapter heading 9963 at serial no. 14 of Notification No. 12/2017 dt: 28.06.2017 describes such services for residential or lodging purposes and exempts the same if the value of supply of a unit of accommodation is below Rs.1000/- per day. The applicant states that he is charging only Rs.9000/- per month which amounts to Rs.300/- per day for both accommodation and food as a composite supply. Further that the supply of food is anci .....

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..... the illustration in the definition clarifies the context of composite supply. As seen from the illustration the supply of service i.e., insurance and goods go alongside each other. The Hon'ble Supreme court of India in a catena of case law has ruled that illustrations in a statute are part of the statute and help to elucidate the principle of the Section (Dr. Mahesh Chandra Sharma Vs Smt. Raj Kumari Sharma AIR 1996 SC 869). Therefore a composite supply should be similar to a supply mentioned in the illustration to the definition in Section 2(30), where two or more taxable goods or services are supplied along with each other to constitute a composite supply. As seen from the information serviced by the applicant, the rent is fixe .....

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