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GST Rates: No CGST On Goods Not Bearing Registered Brand Name

Team SoOLEGAL 5 Jul 2017 3:32pm

GST Rates: No CGST On Goods Not Bearing Registered Brand Name

‘Registered brand name’ means brand name or trade name, which is registered under the Trade Marks Act, 1999. 

 The Central GST (CGST) rate on the supply of certain goods, such as chena or paneer, natural honey, wheat, rice and other cereals, pulses, flour of cereals and pulses, other than those put up in the unit container and bearing a registered brand name, is NIL.

Supply of such goods, when put up in the unit container and bearing a registered brand name, attracts 2.5% CGST rate.

Doubts are being raised as to the meaning of the registered brand name.

In this context, the Notification No. 1/2017-Central Tax (Rate), dated June 28, 2017, which notifies the CGST rates of intra-state supply of goods, and Notification No. 2/2017-Central Tax (Rate), dated June 28, 2017, which exempts intrastate supply of the specified goods, clearly defines ‘registered brand name’ as brand name or trade name, which is registered under the Trade Marks Act, 1999.

In this regard, Section 2(w) read with Section 2 (t) of the Trade Marks Act, 1999, provide that a registered trade mark means a trade mark which is actually on the Register of Trade Marks and remains in force.

Thus, unless the brand name or trade name is actually on the Register of Trade Marks and is in force under the Trade Marks Act, 1999, CGST rate of 5% will not be applicable to the supply of such goods.

Source: LiveLaw




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