GST Registration For Foreigners
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What is GST?
- GST is an indirect form of taxation levied on the supply of goods and services that was formed to abolish several other plethora of indirect taxes in India. It aims to create a single domestic indirect tax law for the entire nation. This will create ease of tax collection, avoidance of double taxation and will increase efficiency. In GST, the final tax is borne by the customer/end user.
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Overview
GST act mandates that all of the entities involved in selling goods or providing services or both in India are mandatorily required to get themselves registered under GST when they cross a minimum threshold turnover limit. However, the turnover threshold limit does not apply to a non-resident person supplying goods or services in India.
Related Read: An Overview On GST And 5 Ways GST Impacts Your Business
“Non-resident taxable person” is a person who undertakes transactions occasionally which involves the supply of taxable goods or services or both, whether as a principal or an agent and does not have a fixed place of business or residence in India. This person has to mandatorily get himself registered under the GST act.
Also, a non-resident person supplying OIDAR services to an unregistered person in India is required to register under GST law.
The GST registration is valid for 3 months and if need arises can be extended further.
Benefits For Registrations
- Legal recognition under the law
- Authorized to charge tax on customers
- Compliance under the GST law, thereby avoiding any penal actions.
Documents Required
- In case of Individual, Self-Attested copy of Passport of Non-resident
- In case of company, Tax Identification Number/ Unique number
- Passport photo of all Directors/Individuals.
- Proof of principal place of Business (lease agreement)
- Documentary proof of Declaration for authorising signatory & acceptance by authorized signatory
- PAN Card, Mobile number linked with Aadhar & Email ID of the authorised Indian Resident
Process
- Identify a Resident Indian who would act as your authorised representative
- Apply for the registration at least five days prior to commencing business in India.
- Temporary Reference Number is electronically generated on the Common portal
- Deposit an amount equal to the expected GST liability
- Submit documents and file the GST registration application.
- Registration certificate is issued electronically on successful validation.
- The validity of the registration is 90 days. However, taxpayers can extend the validity of the registration by filing a form before the end of the existing validity period.
- Note that it generally takes three to seven days to get the GST number if the form and documents are correctly filed.
How will we help you?
- Our GST Registration process is completely online and requires no physical paper submissions.
- At ICI, our experts can help you with the following services,
- Applying for GST registration
- Finding an Indian resident who can act as your Authorised signatory
- Filing an application for extension of GST registration
- Filing GST returns to close the GST registration
- Calculate expected GST liability
- Determining GST rates & HSN/SAC code for your goods or services
- Claiming refund, in cases where the estimated GST liability paid in advance is more than the actual liability.
- Tax opinions on concerned matters
- Providing a registered place of Business
Steps
- Click on this link & submit a service request.
- Our GST team will connect with you to understand your requirements. Based on our understanding we shall then ask you for your documents along with a simple checklist.
- You need to fill up that checklist and submit the required documents for processing.
- Once all the documents are verified by our expert team then we shall apply for your GST registration
FAQs
Yes, irrespective of a single transaction or multiple taxable transactions, every foreigner/ non-resident will mandatorily have to take the GST registration.
Advance payment of GST liability is like a secured deposit with the government which can be utilised to pay the actual tax liability. Every non-resident person seeking GST registration in India has to compulsorily make an advance payment of expected GST liability which will be adjusted with the actual tax liability at the end of the registration period. Any excess tax will be refunded back.
There are 4 GST types namely-
» Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST)
» State Goods and Services Tax (SGST)
» Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST)
» Union Territory Goods and Services Tax (UTGST)
ITC stands for Input Tax Credit. It is basically a credit that you can use to set off your GST liability. Whenever you purchase goods or services for your business from a GST registered person you are required to pay GST on the purchase to the supplier. You can claim the benefit of this GST payment by offsetting it against your GST liability on sales.
No, a person registered as Non-resident taxable person cannot claim Input tax credit on his purchases.
Yes, GST law grants you the freedom to opt for a GST Registration which is of a lesser period but it restricts the maximum period to 90 days. So, at the time of registering you can specify the number of days for which you require the GST registration certificate.
You can extend your GST Registration validity period by a maximum of 90 days.
Yes, GST act mandates to make an additional advance payment of GST liability at the time of sorting for an extension.
Final return has to be filed in GSTR Form 5 within 20 days from the end of the month or within 7 days from the end of the registration period, whichever is earlier.
Online registration Process – No need to visit our office
Completely Online Document Submission & Application Tracking
Error-free Filing of Application for GST Registration
Secure GST Identification Number
Dedicated manager to process your GST registration end to end
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