HC passes interim direction to State, Central government
Telangana High Court issues interim order to the state and central governments, not to ask for the GST payment by 9 colleges providing courses in nursing.
A bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice C.V. Bhaskara Reddy issues the same interim order post to hearing a writ application furnished by 10 colleges of nursing opposing the demand notice given via Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) on 18% GST payable on the affiliation and inspection fee.
An interim direction would get issued by the bench mentioning that the applicant must not get insisted on the GST payment till the subsequent hearing date.
The coordinates are applied to the first applicant, Care College of Nursing, Hyderabad, and the 9 other colleges of nursing were introduced to furnish the independent applicant to have the relief. The first applicant mentioned that the Union of India furnished a notification in the month of June 2017 levying a 9% central GST including a state GST (total of 18%) on educational services.
But an exemption was allotted to “certain specified educational services including services provided to an educational institution” via the Central government. Under the circulation of a centre, an educational institution would be the one that is “providing services by way of education as part of a curriculum for obtaining a qualification recognised by any law for time being in force.”
Under the definition of an educational institution, Care College of Nursing comes beneath it, the applicant’s counsel specified. Next, the GST official meeting held in the month of January 2018 settled that the services concerned with the admission to or examination held furnished to all the educational institutions would get GST exemption, which the council opposed.