Option to pay GST on Goods Transport Agency services enables forward charge where registered suppliers issue invoice with prescribed declaration.
The notification permits suppliers registered under the CGST Act who have exercised the option to pay tax on Goods Transport Agency services under forward charge to charge Union Territory Tax at applicable rates and must issue a tax invoice containing the prescribed Annexure III declaration; it also inserts a new entry making renting of residential dwelling to a registered person a taxable service and adds Annexure III.

GST exemptions for specified services updated, including postal, storage, air travel and a capped tour-operator foreign-tourist exemption.
The notification amends the SGST rate schedule by omitting and substituting multiple entries to revise exemptions and taxable treatments: postal services by Department of Posts for light envelopes are made nil-rated; storage or warehousing exemptions are confined to cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables; air travel relief is limited to economy class at specified airports; a new partial exemption for tour operator services to foreign tourists is introduced based on proportion of tour days performed outside India or a capped fifty percent of consideration; residential rental and certain health-care room charge exceptions are also adjusted.

Tour operator service exemption: partial tax relief for services performed outside India for foreign tourists under revised UTGST rules.
The notification amends the Union Territory GST rate schedule by deleting repeated references to specified services (speed post, express parcel post, life insurance, agency services) from several entries; inserting an exception that residential exemption does not apply where the dwelling is rented to a registered person; substituting and omitting multiple serial entries including an economy-class air passenger specification for certain airports; adding storage/warehousing of cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables; creating a nil-rated entry for basic postal services; and introducing a partial exemption for tour operator services supplied to foreign tourists based on days outside India or fifty percent of consideration. Effective 18 July 2022.

Union Territory GST amendment substitutes goods description to include fly ash bricks and aggregates, effective in July.
The notification amends Notification No.02/2017-Union Territory Tax by substituting, against serial number 4 in the Table column (3), the entry with the wording "Fly ash bricks; Fly ash aggregates; Fly ash blocks", thereby altering the classification of those goods under the Union Territory GST framework; the amendment takes effect on 18th July, 2022.

IGST exemptions amended to redefine exempt services, add postal and tour-operator provisions, and refine residential and healthcare exclusions.
The notification amends the IGST rate schedule by deleting, substituting and inserting entries to refine exempt services: adding nil-rated storage/warehousing of cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables; nil-rating certain low-weight Department of Posts services; creating a partial exemption for tour operator services to foreign tourists for portions performed outside India with a proportionality and cap rule; excluding certain residential rentals to registered persons; modifying air travel concessions for specified airports; inserting a healthcare room-charge proviso; and restricting recreational and sports training exemptions to specified providers.

Exempted supply of services under CGST amended to revise exemptions and add postal and tour-operator carve-outs and health-care proviso.
The notification amends the CGST exempt supply schedule by removing a specified qualifying phrase from multiple entries, inserting an exception excluding residential dwellings rented to registered persons, narrowing an air-travel economy-class exemption to certain northeastern airports, limiting warehousing exemptions to cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables, adding Nil-rated ordinary postal services for lightweight envelopes, creating a partial exemption for tour-operator services to foreign tourists for the portion performed outside India (subject to a proportionate calculation and a fifty percent cap), inserting a proviso excluding high-priced non-ICU room charges from healthcare exemption, and restricting recreational training exemptions to qualifying charitable entities.

GTA option for GST payment introduced, restricting input tax credit and requiring pre year declaration under Annexure V.
Amendments revise SGST tariff entries for transport and health services, including a 2.5% rate for GTA services with an elective forward charge option exercisable via a prescribed Annexure V declaration; electing GTAs cannot claim input tax credit on inputs used for those supplies during the opted period. The changes add ropeway passenger and goods transport entries, a 2.5% entry for certain hospital room charges with input credit restriction, a 6% entry for renting of goods carriage with fuel included, and introduce definitions for print media, clinical establishment, health care services and goods transport agency.

GST rate amendments: reclassification and altered rates for transport, clinical establishments and GTA option changes, with input tax credit conditions.
The notification amends CGST rates and classifications for transport, clinical establishment room charges and related services, inserts definitions and an annexure, and creates a pre financial year option for Goods Transport Agencies to elect forward charge payment; lower rates where provided are subject to disallowance of input tax credit on goods and services used in supplying those services.

IGST service rates revised, altering transport and healthcare classifications and introducing GTA option for forward charge.
Notification amends IGST rate table and explanatory clauses to reclassify specified transport and healthcare services, prescribe conditions denying input tax credit on goods or on goods and services used in supplying those services, and to provide a formal annual option for Goods Transport Agencies to pay tax under forward charge by declaration in Annexure V with prescribed deadlines; the amendments take effect from 18th July, 2022.

UTGST classification change: restructured GTA option, ropeway transport and clinical establishment room charge entries alter rates and credit rules.
The notification amends the UTGST rate schedule to reclassify and set rates for transport and health-care services, inserts ropeway passenger and goods transport entries, restructures Goods Transport Agency (GTA) entries to distinguish option-to-pay and non-option supplies with a reduced rate and prohibitions on taking input tax credit where applicable, and introduces Annexure V as the pre commencement declaration form for GTAs to exercise the forward charge option for a financial year; definitions for print media, clinical establishment, health care services, and goods transport agency are added.

UTGST amendment substitutes goods description to include fly ash bricks, fly ash aggregates and fly ash blocks under notification rules.
The Central Government, on the recommendation of the Council and under the specified statutory provisions, substitutes the entry against serial number 4 in the Table of Notification No. 02/2019-Union Territory Tax to read "Fly ash bricks; Fly ash aggregates; Fly ash blocks." The amendment is issued as Notification No. 03/2022-Union Territory Tax and comes into force on the 18th day of July, 2022.

Nil interest for electronic commerce operators who deposited collected tax but could not file required statement due to portal glitch.
The Government notifies Nil interest for specified electronic commerce operators who could not file the statement under sub section (4) of section 52 due to a portal technical glitch, provided they deposited the tax collected under sub section (1) of section 52 in the electronic cash ledger; the waiver applies to the listed GSTINs for the months specified and covers the period from deposit of tax in the electronic cash ledger until filing of the required statement.

Deferment of appeal filing requires an Assessing Officer's application in Form 8A identifying identical questions of law and related cases.
An application to defer filing of an appeal before the Appellate Tribunal or the jurisdictional High Court must be made in Form No. 8A by the Assessing Officer; the Form requires appellant and respondent details, assessment year, declared income, particulars of the order (section and sub-section, dates), the authority passing the order, the State and District of the jurisdictional Assessing Officer, the specific questions of law sought to be deferred with total tax effect, details of other cases relied upon, the due date for filing under the deferment provision, and a certification and verification that the questions of law are identical and pending in the relevant higher forum.

Controlled delivery authorisation enables supervised movement of suspect consignments with required approvals, monitoring and foreign consultation.
Controlled delivery permits supervised movement of a suspect consignment liable to confiscation where a proper officer applies in FORM-I and the specified authority may approve and authorise the operation, issue a FORM-II general authorisation to prevent interception by other enforcement agencies, permit non material affixation of marks or track and trace devices, require consultation with foreign competent authorities for consignments destined abroad, and mandate reporting on completion or termination with ensuing notification to foreign authorities when applicable.

Tariff heading amendment: substitution of tariff classification for open cells used in TV panel manufacture.
Amends the customs exemption notification by substituting the tariff heading in the Table against the stated serial entry of Notification No. 50/2017 Customs to change the classification applicable to open cells used in the manufacture of TV panels, reflecting an administrative revision of tariff classification under powers conferred by the Customs Act and the Customs Tariff Act.

Anti-dumping duty: table amended to allow specified producer's exports from any country including Indonesia under duty schedule
The notification substitutes the duty table in No. 28/2018-Customs (ADD), specifying tariff items, goods description, country of origin, country of export, named producers and exporters, and corresponding anti-dumping duty rates. It updates multiple entries for Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai producers and exporters and explicitly sets the country of export for PT. ENERGI SEJAHTERA MAS (producer) and Sinarmas CEPSA Pte. Ltd. (exporter) to "Any country including Indonesia," thereby broadening export sourcing in the duty schedule.

Exemption from Agriculture Infrastructure Development Cess extends to ethanol blended petrol variants and updates diesel blend definition.
The notification inserts Nil rate tariff entries exempting specified ethanol blended petrols from the Agriculture Infrastructure Development Cess where blends meet defined compositional criteria and applicable standards, and revises the diesel blend entry to clarify that diesel blended with a limited proportion of bio diesel remains predominantly high speed diesel with the bio diesel component subject to appropriate indirect taxes.

Ethanol blended petrol exempted from Road and Infrastructure Cess where blends meet specified composition and BIS quality.
Exempts specified ethanol blended petrol tariff items from the additional excise duty (Road and Infrastructure Cess) under section 112 of the Finance Act, 2018, where the blends meet the composition requirements and conform to Bureau of Indian Standards specification IS 17586; explanatory clauses define "appropriate duties of excise" and the relevant Central/State/Union territory/Integrated tax terminology.

Ethanol blended petrol exemption: notification inserts Nil-duty entries for specified ethanol blends and updates biodiesel blend treatment.
Inserts Nil-duty entries in Notification No. 28/2002-Central Excise for petrol blended with ethanol that meets specified volumetric composition and BIS specification 17586, defining appropriate duties of excise to include Fourth Schedule duties and enumerated additional excise levies, and defining applicable Central/State/Union territory/Integrated taxes as GST levies. Also substitutes the diesel entry to describe a blend with a dominant proportion of high speed diesel and a specified proportion of bio-diesel, requiring that component portions have the appropriate excise or GST levies paid.

Exemption from annual return relieves eligible registered persons from filing obligations where turnover falls below the statutory threshold for the year.
Exemption from annual return filing is granted to registered persons whose aggregate turnover for the financial year 2021-22 falls at or below the prescribed turnover threshold; the Principal Commissioner of State Tax, on Council recommendation, issued a notification exempting such persons from filing the annual return for that year, with the notification deemed effective from an earlier specified date.