S. No. |
Description of Services | Rate |
36 |
Services of general insurance business provided under following schemes - (a) Hut Insurance Scheme; (b) Cattle Insurance under Swarnajaynti Gram Swarozgar Yojna (earlier known as Integrated Rural Development Programme); (c) Scheme for Insurance of Tribals; (d) Janata Personal Accident Policy and Gramin Accident Policy; (e) Group Personal Accident Policy for Self-Employed Women; (f) Agricultural Pumpset and Failed Well Insurance; (g) premia collected on export credit insurance; (h) Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme or the Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme, approved by the Government of India and implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture; (i) Jan Arogya Bima Policy; (j) National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (Rashtriya Krishi Bima Yojana); (k) Pilot Scheme on Seed Crop Insurance; (l) Central Sector Scheme on Cattle Insurance; (m)Universal Health Insurance Scheme; (n) Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana; (o) Coconut Palm Insurance Scheme; (p) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha BimaYojna; (q) Niramaya Health Insurance Scheme implemented by the Trust constituted under the provisions of the National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999 (44 of 1999).
|
Nil |
37 |
Services of life insurance business provided under following schemes-
Authority, having maximum amount of cover of fifty thousand rupees;
|
Nil |
38 |
Services by way of collection of contribution under the Atal Pension Yojana. |
Nil |
39 |
Services by way of collection of contribution under any pension scheme of the State Governments. |
Nil |
40 |
Services by the following persons in respective capacities -
|
Nil |
41 |
Services provided to the Central Government, State Government, Union territory under any insurance scheme for which total premium is paid by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory. |
Nil |
42 |
Services received by the Reserve Bank of India, from outside India in relation to management of foreign exchange reserves. |
Nil |
43 |
One time upfront amount (called as premium, salami, cost, price, development charges or by any other name) leviable in respect of the service, by way of granting long term (thirty years, or more) lease of industrial plots, provided by the State Government Industrial Development Corporations or Undertakings to industrial units. |
Nil |
44 |
Services provided by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority by way of allowing a business entity to operate as a telecom service provider or use radio frequency spectrum during the period prior to the 1st April, 2016, on payment of licence fee or spectrum user charges, as the case may be. |
Nil |
45 |
Services of leasing of assets (rolling stock assets including wagons, coaches, locos) by the Indian Railways Finance Corporation to Indian Railways. |
Nil |
46 |
Services provided by an incubatee up to a total turnover of fifty lakh rupees in a financial year subject to the following conditions, namely:-
|
Nil |
47 |
Services provided by- la) an arbitral tribunal to -
|
Nil |
48 |
Services by a veterinary clinic in relation to health care of animals or birds. |
Nil |
49 |
Services provided by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority by way of- tt
|
Nil |
50 |
Taxable services, provided or to be provided, by a Technology Business Incubator or a Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park recognised by the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India or bio-incubators recognised by the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, under the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. |
Nil |
51 |
Services by way of collecting or providing news by an independent journalist, Press Trust of India or United News of India. |
Nil |
52 |
Services of public libraries by way of lending of books, publications or any other knowledge-enhancing content or material. |
Nil |
53 |
Services provided by the Goods and Services Tax Network to the Central Government or State Governments or Union territories for implementation of Goods and Services Tax. |
Nil |
54 |
Services provided by a tour operator to a foreign tourist in relation to a tour conducted wholly outside India. |
Nil |
55 |
Services by an organiser to any person in respect of a business exhibition held outside India. |
Nil |
56 |
Services by way of sponsorship of sporting events organised -
|
Nil |
57 |
Services relating to cultivation of plants and rearing of all life forms of animals, except the rearing of horses, for food, fibre, fuel, raw material or other similar products or agricultural produce by way of—
|
Nil |
58 |
Carrying out an intermediate production process as job work in relation to cultivation of plants and rearing of all life forms of animals, except the rearing of horses, for food, fibre, fuel, raw material or other similar products or agricultural produce. |
Nil |
59 |
Services by way of slaughtering of animals. |
Nil |
60 |
Services by way of pre-conditioning, pre-cooling, ripening, waxing, retail packing, labelling of fruits and vegetables which do not change or alter the essential characteristics of the said fruits or vegetables. |
Nil |
61 |
Services provided by the National Centre for Cold Chain Development under the Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmer’s Welfare by way of cold chain knowledge dissemination. |
Nil |
62 |
Services by a foreign diplomatic mission located in India. |
Nil |
63 |
Services by a specified organisation in respect of a religious pilgrimage facilitated by the Ministry of External Affairs, the Government of India, under bilateral arrangement. |
Nil |
64 |
Services provided by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority by way of issuance of passport, visa, driving licence, birth certificate or death certificate. |
Nil |
65 |
Services provided by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority by way of tolerating non-performance of a contract for which consideration in the form of fines or liquidated damages is payable to the Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority under such contract. |
Nil |
66 |
Services provided by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority by way of assignment of right to use natural resources to an individual farmer for cultivation of plants and rearing of all life forms of animals, except the rearing of horses, for food, fibre, fuel, raw material or other similar products. |
Nil |
67 |
Services provided by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority by way of assignment of right to use any natural resource where such right to use was assigned by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory or local authority before the 1st April, 2016: Provided that the exemption shall apply only to tax payable on one time charge payable, in full upfront or in installments, for assignment of right to use such natural resource. |
Nil |
68 |
Services provided by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory by way of deputing officers after office hours or on holidays for inspection or container stuffing or such other duties in relation to import export cargo on payment of Merchant Overtime charges. |
Nil |
69 |
Services provided -
Provided that nothing contained in entry (b) shall apply to an educational institution other than an institution providing services by way of pre-school education and education up to higher secondary school or equivalent. |
Nil |
70 |
Services provided by the Indian Institutes of Management, as per the guidelines of the Central Government, to their students, by way of the following educational programmes, except Executive Development Programme: -
|
Nil |
71 |
Services provided to a recognised sports body by-
|
Nil |
72 |
Any services provided by, _
|
Nil |
73 |
Services of assessing bodies empanelled centrally by the Directorate General of Training, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship by way of assessments under the Skill Development Initiative Scheme. |
Nil |
74 |
Services provided by training providers (Project implementation agencies) under Deen Dayal Upad- hyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India by way of offering skill or vocational training courses certified by the National Council for Vocational Training. |
Nil |
75 |
Services provided to the Central Government, State Government, Union territory administration under any training programme for which total expenditure is borne by the Central Government, State Government, Union territory administration. |
Nil |
76 |
Services provided by the cord blood banks by way of preservation of stem cells or any other service in relation to such preservation. |
Nil |
77 |
Services by way of-
|
Nil |
78 |
Services provided by operators of the common bio-medical waste treatment facility to a clinical establishment by way of treatment or disposal of bio-medical waste or the processes incidental thereto. |
Nil |
79 |
Services by way of public conveniences such as provision of facilities of bathroom, washrooms, lavatories, urinal or toilets. |
Nil |
80 |
Service by an unincorporated body or a non- profit entity registered under any law for the time being in force, to its own members by way of reimbursement of charges or share of contribution -
Tax; or
|
Nil |
81 |
Services by an artist by way of a performance in folk or classical art forms of-
if the consideration charged for such performance is not more than one lakh and fifty thousand rupees: Provided that the exemption shall not apply to service provided by such artist as a brand ambassador. |
Nil |
82 |
Services by way of admission to a museum, national park, wildlife sanctuary, tiger reserve or zoo. |
Nil |
83 |
Services by way of training or coaching in recreational activities relating to:
|
Nil |
84 |
Services by way of right to admission to-
|
Nil |
85 |
Services provided to the United Nations or a specified international organization is exempt by way of refund. |
Nil |
86 |
Services provided to a foreign diplomatic mission or consular post in India or for personal use or for the use of the family members of diplomatic agents or career consular officers posed therein, is exempt by way of refund. |
Nil |
87 |
Services by the Central Government or State Government or any local authority by way of any activity in relation to a function entrusted to a Panchayat under article 243G of the Constitution is neither a supply of goods nor a supply of service |
Nil |
Note: The above list includes services excempt from CGST/IGST.
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