{"id":100559,"date":"2017-07-11T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=100559"},"modified":"2017-07-11T18:27:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T18:27:12","slug":"no-gst-free-food-supplied-religious-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/100559","title":{"rendered":"No GST on free food supplied by religious institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Prasadam supplied by religious places like Temples, Mosques, Churches, Gurudwaras, dargahs etc.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, July 11 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; There are media reports suggesting that GST applies on free food supplied <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-81577\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GST-Taxes.jpg\" alt=\"gst-taxes\" width=\"460\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GST-Taxes.jpg 460w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GST-Taxes-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/>in anna kshetras run by religious institutions. This is completely untrue.\u00a0<strong>No GST is applicable on\u00a0such food supplied free.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Further, prasadam supplied by religious places like temples, mosques, churches, gurudwaras, dargahs, etc. attracts Nil CGST and SGST or IGST, as the case may be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, some of the inputs and input services required for making prasadam would be subject to GST. These include sugar, vegetable edible oils, ghee, butter, service for transportation of these goods etc. Most of these inputs or input services have multiple uses. Under GST regime, it is difficult to prescribe a separate rate of tax for sugar, etc. when supplied for a particular purpose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Further, GST being a multi-stage tax, end use based exemptions or concessions are difficult to administer. Therefore, GST does not envisage end use based exemptions. It would, therefore, not be desirable to provide end use based exemption for inputs or input services for making prasadam or food for free distribution by religious institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prasadam supplied by religious places like Temples, Mosques, Churches, Gurudwaras, dargahs etc. New Delhi, July 11 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; There are media reports suggesting that GST applies on free food supplied in anna kshetras run by religious institutions. This is completely untrue.\u00a0No GST is applicable on\u00a0such food supplied free. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Further, prasadam supplied by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-articles","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No GST on free food supplied by religious institutions | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/100559\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No GST on free food supplied by religious institutions | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prasadam supplied by religious places like Temples, Mosques, Churches, Gurudwaras, dargahs etc. New Delhi, July 11 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; There are media reports suggesting that GST applies on free food supplied in anna kshetras run by religious institutions. 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