GST rate on Bamboo purchased from Unspecified land Owner

[Sanjoy Das]

We are a manufacturing company in Assam. we have been purchasing bomboo from local vendors. The vendors are registered in GST but they are not charging GST when they supplied bamboo because of the bamboo is from his own land and the said land is un-specified land. (Not a forest land). and the vendor said that GST on bamboo is liable to pay only it manufactured on specifed land (Forest Land) where royalty has to pay to local council.

Whether GST is liable to pay on bamboo if the vendor manufacture from his own land (Unspecified land ) and supplied. Any noticification is there for examption of above said critia.

AI Summary

GST on bamboo: conflicting views on exemption versus taxable rate under tariff classification and notifications.
Whether GST applies to bamboo from a vendor's own unspecified land is contested. One reply asserts bamboo is not covered by RCM and is exempt under the exemption notification because it is not among listed agriculture products. Other replies assert bamboo is legally a giant grass/forest produce, classifiable under wood/bamboo tariff headings and therefore taxable at the applicable GST rate, with no reverse charge and no royalty treatment under the cited code.