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Clarification on various doubts related to treatment of secondary or post-sales discounts under GST vide Circular No. 105/24/2019-GST

Circular No. 105/24/2019-GST

CBEC-20/16/04/2018-GST
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs
GST Policy Wing
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New Delhi, Dated the 28th June, 2019

To,

The Principal Chief Commissioners / Chief Commissioners / Principal Commissioners /

Commissioners of Central Tax (All)

The Principal Director Generals / Director Generals (All)

Madam / Sir,

Subject: Clarification on various doubts related to treatment of secondary or post-sales discounts under GST – reg.

Circular No. 92/11/2019-GST dated 7th March, 2019 was issued providing clarification on various doubts related to treatment of sales promotion schemes under GST. Post issuance of the said Circular various representations have been received from the trade and industry seeking clarifications in respect of tax treatment in cases of secondary discounts or post sales discount. The matter has been examined in order to ensure uniformity in the implementation of the law across the field formations, the Board, in exercise of its powers conferred under section 168(1) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as “the CGST Act”) clarifies the issues in succeeding paragraphs.

2. For the purpose of value of supply, post sales discounts are governed by the provisions of clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 15 of the CGST Act. It is crucial to examine the true nature of discount given by the manufacturer or wholesaler, etc. (hereinafter referred to as “the supplier of goods”) to the dealer. It would be important to examine whether the additional discount is given by the supplier of goods in lieu of consideration for any additional activity / promotional campaign to be undertaken by the dealer.

3. It is clarified that if the post-sale discount is given by the supplier of goods to the dealer without any further obligation or action required at the dealer’s end, then the post sales discount given by the said supplier will be related to the original supply of goods and it would not be included in the value of supply, in the hands of supplier of goods, subject to the fulfilment of provisions of sub-section (3) of section 15 of the CGST Act. However, if the additional discount given by the supplier of goods to the dealer is the post-sale incentive requiring the dealer to do some act like undertaking special sales drive, advertisement campaign, exhibition etc., then such transaction would be a separate transaction and the additional discount will be the consideration for undertaking such activity and therefore would be in relation to supply of service by dealer to the supplier of goods. The dealer, being supplier of services, would be required to charge applicable GST on the value of such additional discount and the supplier of goods, being recipient of services, will be eligible to claim input tax credit (hereinafter referred to as the “ITC”) of the GST so charged by the dealer.

4. It is further clarified that if the additional discount is given by the supplier of goods to the dealer to offer a special reduced price by the dealer to the customer to augment the sales volume, then such additional discount would represent the consideration flowing from the supplier of goods to the dealer for the supply made by dealer to the customer. This additional discount as consideration, payable by any person (supplier of goods in this case) would be liable to be added to the consideration payable by the customer, for the purpose of arriving value of supply, in the hands of the dealer, under section 15 of the CGST Act. The customer, if registered, would be eligible to claim ITC of the tax charged by the dealer only to the extent of the tax paid by the said customer to the dealer in view of second proviso to sub-section (2) of section 16 of the CGST Act.

5. There may be cases where post-sales discount granted by the supplier of goods is not permitted to be excluded from the value of supply in the hands of the said supplier not being in accordance with the provisions contained in sub-section (3) of section 15 of CGST Act. It has already been clarified vide Circular No. 92/11/2019-GST dated 7th March, 2019 that the supplier of goods can issue financial / commercial credit notes in such cases but he will not be eligible to reduce his original tax liability. Doubts have been raised as to whether the dealer will be eligible to take ITC of the original amount of tax paid by the supplier of goods or only to the extent of tax payable on value net of amount for which such financial / commercial credit notes have been received by him. It is clarified that the dealer will not be required to reverse ITC attributable to the tax already paid on such post-sale discount received by him through issuance of financial / commercial credit notes by the supplier of goods in view of the provisions contained in second proviso to sub-rule (1) of rule 37 of the CGST Rules read with second proviso to sub-section (2) of section 16 of the CGST Act as long as the dealer pays the value of the supply as reduced after adjusting the amount of post-sale discount in terms of financial / commercial credit notes received by him from the supplier of goods plus the amount of original tax charged by the supplier.

6. It is requested that suitable trade notices may be issued to publicize the contents of this circular.

7. Difficulty if any, in the implementation of this Circular may be brought to the notice of the Board. Hindi version will follow.

(Upender Gupta)
Principal Commissioner (GST)

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9 Comments

  1. MANISH says:

    WE ARE WORKING AS DISTRIBUTOR OF WIPRO CONSUMER COMPANY BILLED US PRODUCT AND WE SOLD OUT IT 10% DISCOUNT TO SHOPKEEPERS AND LATER WE CLAIM 10% FROM COMPANY AND COMPANY ISSUE IS CREDIT NOTE WITHOUT GST IT IS RIGHT WAY OR WRONG WAY AND IN ANOTHER CO WE ISSUED SECONDARY CLAIM GST INVOICE TO CO UNDER SERVICE CODE NO 9962 (TRADER DISCOUNT IN RETAIL TRADE) 18% GST ON IT
    PLEASE CLERIFIY WHICH ONE IS CORRECT ONE

  2. Oindrila says:

    Is issuing a credit note for Quantity discount applicable for GST? If quantity discount is not proposed during the time of sales, credit note issues with GST or not. Please clarify.

  3. Oindrila says:

    Is issuing a credit note for Quantity discount applicable for GST? If quantity discount is not proposed during the time of sales, credit note issues with GST or not. Please clarify.

  4. Sanjeev Kumar says:

    This applies to the cases where principal company bills and deliver goods to distributor and distributor bills & deliver goods to dealer but target incentive/schemes are paid to dealer directly by the principal company.

  5. Paresh says:

    Sir
    I purchased goods ar rs. 100
    And sold rs.50/-
    Then my margin rs.2 + 50 =52/- + gst raised debit note to company and same copy shows to gstr1 and take 52+ gst credit from company
    Now the issue is whater take gst set off , company said that we didn’t get gst input, so u have to return the same money.
    For me it is very big issue , so please help me out.

  6. SHAHANAS says:

    Dear Sir… am a dealer of commercial vehicles. we are billing the vehicle in full prize and making credit not as post sale discount. and paying the GST for the differnce amount ( invoice – credit note), is there any issue

  7. Nitin says:

    Due to receipt of financial credit notes to distributore gst cash ledger credit can claim ? E.g. purchase Rs100/- input gst Rs 18/- sales it at Rs 50/ output gst Rs9/- financial credite note rcvd Rs 52/- can distributire claim refund of Rs 9/-??

  8. VIKRAM AGGARWAL says:

    The clarification should have had examples also since the whole clarification appears to be still very unclear and ambiguous.

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