Tuesday, 19 February 2019

GST Input Tax Credit Setting off Rules changed from 1st February 2019

The government has amended CGST Act 2017 vide CGST Amendment Act 2018 with various changes w.e.f and one of the important amendment was made in Section 49 of CGST Act by introducing new section 49A after the section 49, which is as under:


"Notwithstanding anything contained in section 49, the input tax credit on account of central tax, State tax or Union territory tax shall be utilized towards payment of integrated tax, central tax, State tax or Union territory tax, as the case may be, only after the input tax credit available on account of integrated tax has first been utilized fully towards such payment"
Impact of amendment Government has changed the order of setoff by introducing section 49A w.e.f 1st February 2019 and now IGST Credit should be set off fully before taking setting of CGST or SGST Credit. This has been Explained with a small Example

This has been Explained with a small Example 









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