Advisory for Taxpayers regarding Generation of EWB where the principal supply is Supply of services
1. Representations have been received from various trade bodies stating that they are not able to generate EWB bill for movement of those goods where their principle supply is classifiable as a service, since there is no provision for generating E-way Bill by entering SAC (Service Accounting Code-Chapter 99) alone on the E- way bill portal.
2. To overcome this issue, the taxpayers are advised as below:
a) Rule 138 of CGST Rules, 2017, inter alia, states “Information to be furnished prior to commencement of movement of goods and generation of e-way bill. – (1) Every registered person who causes movement of goods of consignment value exceeding fifty thousand rupees….” Thus, E way bill is required to be generated for the movement of Goods.
b) Therefore, in cases where the principal supply is purely a supply of service and involving no movement of goods, the e-way bill is not required to be generated.
c) However, in cases where along with the principal supply of service, movement of some goods is also involved, e-way bill may be generated. Such situations may arise in cases of supply of services like printing services, works contract services, catering services, pandal or shamiana services, etc. In such cases, e-way bill may be generated by entering the details of HSN code of the goods, along with SAC (Service Accounting Code) of services involved.
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Thus, although GST department has clarified that no E-way bill is required in case where principal supply is pure services but it has also mentioned that in certain type of supply as mentioned above E-way bill needs to be prepared in the HSN of goods. This will further create confusion as in such case Tax invoice is also generated for the service with SAC code as both are naturally bundled and GST rate of principal supply is applicable on second supply.
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