Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan attorneys’ Post

Our Executive Partner, SHIVAM MEHTA shared insights in an industry story on the GST Council’s recent amendment impacting sponsorship services taxation, published by Business Standard. The 55th GST Council meeting shifted sponsorship services from the Reverse Charge Mechanism (RCM) to the Forward Charge Mechanism (FCM), allowing event organizers to avail Input Tax Credit (ITC) for the first time. Shivam Mehta highlighted, since the definition of sponsorship services was vague earlier, the recipient of the services wasn’t clear whether they had to pay GST on such services. ‘’Meanwhile, the event organiser was of the view that s/he is providing sponsorship services and thus the recipient is liable to pay GST on it. In many cases, no tax was being paid either by suppliers or by recipients, leading to tax disputes. He also emphasised that earlier the event organisers were not eligible to avail ITC on sponsorship services provided by them since these services were taxable under RCM and thus were considered as exempt supplies. Read the full story below! #GSTCouncilmeeting #ITC #inputtaxcredit #Taxation #GST #Goodsandservicestax #transactions

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