Rental income from residential property has been exempt from the goods and services tax (GST) but any earning over Rs 20 lakh annually from renting or leasing for commercial purposes would attract the levy.
Revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia said that if the house property were rent out for shop or office purpose, no GST would be levied up to Rs 20 lakh.
“Rental income received from residential house is exempt.
But if you have given your unit to commercial enterprise, then it is taxable if you are getting more than Rs 20 lakh as rent,” Adhia said at the GST Master Class.
The taxpayer earning more than the exempted threshold will have to register with the GST Network and pay taxes.
GSTN chief executive officer Prakash Kumar said that as many as 6.932 million registered excise, service tax and value-added tax (VAT) payers have migrated to the GSTN portal.
There are over 8 million such assessees in the earlier indirect taxation regime.
Out of the 6.932 million, as many as 3.851 million have completed the entire registration process and registration certificate is being issued to them.
The remaining 3.08 million taxpayers are being sent SMS and emails by GSTN so that they complete the registration process by giving the details of the business like main place of business, additional place of business, promoters details.
Besides, over 450,000 new assessees have registered on the GSTN portal since June 25.
Adhia further said that the facility to amend the details of businesses provided to the GSTN portal at the time of registration will open on July 17.
Also, registration for GST practioners will open on the same day.
Source: Mydigitalfc.com
