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GST: Finance Ministry asks TSPs to rejig their prices
The Telecommunication Services will attract GST of 18 percent in the GST regime, which is a pure Value Added Tax because full ITC of Inputs and Input Services.
The Finance Ministry has asked telecom service providers (TSPs) to rejig their prices and ensure that the increased availability of credit is passed on to the customers by lowering their costs, under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to customers in the country from July this year.
"After GST regime, telecom companies would be required to re-work their costing and credits availability and re-jig their prices and ensure that the increased availability of credit is passed on to the customers by lowering their costs," Finance Ministry said.
As against the above, the Telecommunication Services will attract GST of 18 percent in the GST regime, which is a pure Value Added Tax because full ITC of Inputs and Input Services used in the course or furtherance of business by the telecommunication service providers would be available.
Currently, telecom services attract a service tax of 14 percent along with Swachh Bharat Cess (SBC) of 0.5 percent and Krishi Kalyan Cess (KKC) of 0.5 percent.
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While Service Tax is a pure value-added tax, the above-mentioned cesses are not. This is the reason that while no ITC (Input Tax Credit) of SBC is available, the ITC of KKC is allowed to be set-off only against KKC. Therefore, both the cesses are the turn-over tax.
The Ministry said that presently Telecom Service providers are neither eligible for the credit of VAT paid on goods nor of Special Additional Duty (SAD) paid on imported goods/equipment. However, under GST, Telecom Service Providers would avail credit of IGST paid on domestically procured goods as also imported goods.
"As per some estimates, this additional Input Tax Credit would be as much as 2 percent of the turnover of the telecom industry. Further, ITC of Service Tax paid on an assignment of spectrum by the Government in 2016 is presently allowed to be availed of by the telecommunication companies over a period of 3 years," it added.
In the GST regime, the entire credit can be taken in the same year. Resultantly, the balance two-third credit of the previous year would be admissible in the Current Financial Year itself. All of these would reduce the telecom companies' liability to pay GST through cash to about 87 percent of what they paid in the last fiscal.
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