Definition of turnover for Chit Funds for the purpose of arrive the tax liability under GST Act, 2017

[Veeresham Veerabomma]

Respected Kasturi Sir,

This is in continuation your valuable reply with regard to Chit fund aggregate turnover.

Amount of commission is to be considered. Chit fund collection belongs to the subscribers and not to Foreman. Foreman does not lend his money dated 24-09-2021 by you.

Kindly share if any supportive judgments with regard to definition of aggregate turnover of chit fund companies. According to me only foreman commission is aggregate turnover for the purpose of levy of GST. In my clients case the department assertion is subscription receipts are exceeded threshold limit hence liable for registration. The revenue has allotted a temporary registration to the person/company and levied the GST on foreman commission.

profound regards.

AI Summary

Aggregate turnover definition in chit funds: only foreman commission treated as taxable turnover under GST, not subscriber corpus.
The corpus collected from chit subscribers belongs to the subscriber pool and not to the foreman, so only the foreman's commission constitutes taxable turnover for GST; Supreme Court authority and the Chit Funds Act definition support treating chit operations as financial services, meaning subscription receipts should not be treated as the foreman's aggregate turnover for registration and GST levy.