International passengers buying goods at airport duty-free shops will not be subject to GST and the revenue department will soon clarify on this exemption, an official said. Following an order passed in March by the New Delhi bench of the Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) stating that GST would be leviable on sale of goods from duty-free shops at airports, the revenue department had received a number of representations seeking clarification on the issue. “The position of the revenue department has always been that we cannot export our taxes. We will issue clarification stating that duty free shops would not levy GST,” the official told PTI.
International passengers buying goods at airport duty-free shops will not be subject to GST and the revenue department will soon clarify on this exemption, an official said. Following an order passed in March by the New Delhi bench of the Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) stating that GST would be leviable on sale of goods from duty-free shops at airports, the revenue department had received a number of representations seeking clarification on the issue. “The position of the revenue department has always been that we cannot export our taxes. We will issue clarification stating that duty free shops would not levy GST,” the official told PTI.