Water Pipeline Works for IIT Kharagpur Taxable at 18% GST: West Bengal AAR

• West Bengal AAR held that Jaypee Projects Limited’s water-pipeline works for IIT Kharagpur are classifiable under SAC 99542: the new main water pipeline under SAC 995422 and revamping/repair of the existing network under SAC 995429.
• Both contracts are taxable at 18% GST under Serial No. 3(ii) of Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (Rate); the broader SAC 995479 classification was rejected.
• The AAR denied exemption because the contracts were not pure services, involved substantial goods supply (over 75% of contract value), and IIT Kharagpur is not a government/local authority for the relevant exemption entry.
• It also held that although water supply is a Twelfth Schedule function, construction or repair of water infrastructure is not itself “supply of water,” so the exemption cannot be stretched to cover these works.

Source: a2ztaxcorp.net

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