Recently we have heard a lot about local sweet shops turning into restaurants which will further save them GST of up to 13 percent. The news is however very divergent and confusing as there is no solid base to the tax applicability.
According to an Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR), if in case a sweet shop runs a restaurant in the same premise that there will be 5 percent GST applicable on all the items.
This decision is basically not appropriate and would create confusion for all the shop owners. Here we will clear the confusion regarding the GST rate in sweet shops running a restaurant on the same premises.
For restaurants whether air-conditioned or not, GST rate is applicable at 5% without input tax credit facility. Thus a universal GST rate is applicable to the restaurants at 5%.
However, if such services are provided along with hotels, inns or guest houses (tariff above Rs. 7500/-), the tax will remain chargeable at 18%.
These restaurants have an option to opt for composition scheme if the turnover is below 1 crore in an F.Y. thereby reducing the compliances related to GST returns etc. and these restaurants can’t charge tax according to the GST act.
So we have cleared the part of GST applicability on the local sweet shops whether or not a restaurant. SAG Infotech is the leading platform to get all the queries and tax-related questions solved by the professional tax experts. Here we have given our views to expand the understanding of our readers. As a provider of tax solution such as Gen GST and Genius, we are always ready to help our clients and readers alike.
