TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
Clarification on place of supply of Online Services supplied by the suppliers of services to unregistered recipients
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....egistered recipients-reg. References have been received from field formations regarding non-compliance of provisions of mandatory recording of correct place of supply on the invoices by the suppliers in respect of online services provided by them, either themselves or through electronic commerce operators, to unregistered recipients due to wrong interpretation of provisions of section 12(2)(b) of Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as "IGST Act") read with rule 46 of Central Goods and Services Rules, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as "CGST Rules"). It has also been mentioned that though in such cases of taxable online supplies of services to unregistered recipients, registered suppliers are required to men....
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....es such as,-- (i) advertising on the internet; (ii) providing cloud services; (iii)provision of e-books, movie, music, software and other intangibles through telecommunication networks or internet; (iv) providing data or information, retrievable or otherwise, to any person in electronic form through a computer network; (v) online supplies of digital content (movies, television shows, music and the like); (vi) digital data storage; and (vii) online gaming, excluding the online money gaming as defined in clause (80B) of section 2 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017);" 3.2 The term 'electronic commerce' has been defined under section 2(44) of CGST Act, as follows: "electronic commerce"....
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.... unregistered and where the value of the taxable supply is less than fifty thousand rupees and the recipient requests that such details be recorded in the tax invoice; Provided that in cases involving supply of online money gaming or in cases that where any taxable service is supplied by or through an electronic commerce operator or by a supplier of online information and database access or retrieval services to a recipient who is unregistered, irrespective of the value of such supply, a tax invoice issued by the registered person shall contain the name of the State of the recipient and the same shall be deemed to be the address on record of the recipient; ....." 4. Clarification: 4.1 Section 12 of the IGST Act provides that exc....
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....s on record of the recipient. 4.4 A conjoint reading of clause (b) of sub-section (2) of Section 12 of the IGST Act, sub-section (2) of Section 31 of the CGST Act and proviso to rule 46(f) of CGST Rules leads to a conclusion that in respect of supply of services made to unregistered persons, irrespective of the value of the said supply, the supplier is required to mandatorily record the name of the State of the unregistered recipient on the tax invoice, in cases involving supply of online money gaming or supply of taxable services by or through an electronic commerce operator or supply of online information and database access or retrieval (OIDAR) services. Recording of the name of State of the unregistered recipient on the tax invoice i....
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....erefore, in respect of supply of any such online/ digital services, OIDAR services and online money gaming to unregistered recipients, the suppliers are mandatorily required to record the name of the State of the recipient on the tax invoice, irrespective of the value of supply of such services, and to declare place of supply of the said services as the location of the recipient (based on the name of State of the recipient) in their details of outward supplies in FORM GSTR-1/1A. 4.5.2 For the purpose of recording the name of the State of the recipient on tax invoice in respect of such supplies made to unregistered persons for such online services, supplier should devise suitable mechanism to ensure collection of such details from unregis....