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The document summarizes amendments made to the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act of 2017. Key points: 1) It allows the government to notify certain registered persons to pay tax on a reverse charge basis for specified goods/services received from unregistered suppliers. 2) It inserts a proviso stating that input tax credit for Union territory tax can only be used to pay integrated tax when central tax credit is unavailable. 3) It inserts new sections to specify that Union territory tax credit must be used before integrated tax credit, and allows the government to prescribe the order of utilizing different types of input tax credits.

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The document summarizes amendments made to the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act of 2017. Key points: 1) It allows the government to notify certain registered persons to pay tax on a reverse charge basis for specified goods/services received from unregistered suppliers. 2) It inserts a proviso stating that input tax credit for Union territory tax can only be used to pay integrated tax when central tax credit is unavailable. 3) It inserts new sections to specify that Union territory tax credit must be used before integrated tax credit, and allows the government to prescribe the order of utilizing different types of input tax credits.

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VILGST

Passion to Deliver

MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE


(Legislative Department)

New Delhi: 30.08.2018

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 29th August,
2018, and is hereby published for general information:—

THE UNION TERRITORY GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, (AMENDMENT) 2018
NO. 33 OF 2018
[29th August, 2018]

An Act to amend the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title and commencement


1. (1) This Act may be called the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax (Amendment)
Act, 2018.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification
in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 7
2. In section 7 of the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (14 of 2017)
(hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for sub-section (4), the following sub-section
shall be substituted, namely:––

"(4) The Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, by notification,


specify a class of registered persons who shall, in respect of supply of specified
categories of goods or services or both received from an unregistered supplier, pay
the tax on reverse charge basis as the recipient of such supply of goods or services
or both, and all the provisions of this Act shall apply to such recipient as if he is the
person liable for paying the tax in relation to such supply of goods or services or
both.".

Amendment of section 9

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3. In section 9 of the principal Act, in clause (b), the following proviso shall be inserted,
namely:––

"Provided that the input tax credit on account of Union territory tax shall be utilised
towards payment of integrated tax only where the balance of the input tax credit on
account of central tax is not available for payment of integrated tax.".

Insertion of new sections 9A and 9B


4. After section 9 of the principal Act, the following sections shall be inserted, namely:—

Utilisation of input tax credit.


"9A. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 9, the input tax credit on account of
Union territory tax shall be utilised towards payment of integrated tax or Union territory
tax, as the case may be, only after the input tax credit available on account of integrated
tax has first been utilised towards such payment.

Order of utilisation of input tax credit.


9B. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Chapter and subject to the provisions of
clause (c) of section 9, the Government may, on the recommendations of the Council,
prescribe the order and manner of utilisation of the input tax credit on account of
integrated tax, Central tax, State tax or Union territory tax, as the case may be, towards
payment of any such tax.".

DR. REETA VASISHTA,


Additional Secretary to the Govt. of India

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