(iii) Services of Goods Transport Agency (GTA) in relation to transportation of goods (including used house hold goods for personal use) supplied by a GTA where,-

(b) GTA exercises the option to itself pay GST on services supplied by it.

(1) In respect of supplies on which GTA pays tax at the rate of 5%, GTA shall not take credit of input tax charged on goods and services used in supplying the service. [Please refer to Explanation no. (iv)]

(2) The option by GTA to itself pay GST on the services supplied by it during a Financial Year shall be exercised by making a declaration in Annexure V on or after the 1st January of the preceding Financial Year but not later than 31st March of the preceding Financial Year:

Provided that the option for the Financial Year 2022-2023 shall be exercised on or before the 16th August, 2022:

Provided further that invoice for supply of the service charging Integrated tax at the rates as applicable to clause (b) may be issued during the period from the 18th July,2022 to 16th August, 2022 before exercising the option for the financial year 2022-2023 but in such a case the supplier shall exercise the option to pay GST on its supplies on or before the 16th August,2022.

Provided also that the option for the Financial Year 2023-2024 shall be exercised on or before the 31^st May, 2023:

Provided also that a GTA who commences new business or crosses threshold for registration during any Financial Year, may exercise the option to itself pay GST on the services supplied by it during that Financial Year by making a declaration in Annexure V before the expiry of forty-five days from the date of applying for GST registration or one month from the date of obtaining registration whichever is later.

Provided also that the option exercised by GTA to itself pay GST on the services supplied by it during a Financial Year shall be deemed to have been exercised for the next and future financial years unless the GTA files a declaration in Annexure VI to revert under reverse charge mechanism on or after the 1st January of the preceding Financial Year but not later than31st March of the preceding Financial Year.

(i) Support services to agriculture, forestry, fishing, animal husbandry.

Explanation. - Support services to agriculture, forestry, fishing, animal husbandry mean -

(i) Services relating to cultivation of plants and rearing of all life forms of animals, except the rearing of horses, for food, fibre, fuel, raw material or other similar products or agricultural produce by way of—

(a) agricultural operations directly related to production of any agricultural produce including cultivation, harvesting, threshing, plant protection or testing;

(b) supply of farm labour;

 (c) processes carried out at an agricultural farm including tending, pruning, cutting, harvesting, drying, cleaning, trimming, sun drying, fumigating, curing, sorting, grading, cooling or bulk packaging and such like operations which do not alter the essential characteristics of agricultural produce but make it only marketable for the primary market;

(d) renting or leasing of agro machinery or vacant land with or without a structure incidental to its use;

(e) loading, unloading, packing, storage or warehousing of agricultural produce;

(f) agricultural extension services;

(g) services by any Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee or Board or services provided by a commission agent for sale or purchase of agricultural produce.

(ii) Services by way of pre-conditioning, pre-cooling, ripening, waxing, retail packing, labelling of fruits and vegetables which do not change or alter the essential characteristics of the said fruits or vegetables.

(iii) Carrying out an intermediate production process as job work in relation to cultivation of plants and rearing of all life forms of animals, except the rearing of horses, for food, fibre, fuel, raw material or other similar products or agricultural produce.

Satellite launch services

Jaggery of all types including Cane Jaggery (gur), Palmyra Jaggery, pre-packaged and labelled; Khandsari Sugar, pre-packaged and labelled; Rab, pre-packaged and labelled

Other articles of cutlery (for example, hair clippers, butchers' or kitchen cleavers, choppers and mincing knives,); manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files) [other than pencil sharpeners]

(i) Jaggery of all types including Cane Jaggery (gur), Palmyra Jaggery, other than pre-packaged and labelled.; (ii) Khandsari Sugar, other than pre-packaged and labelled (iii) Rab, other than pre-packaged and labelled

Ethyl alcohol supplied to Oil Marketing Companies or Petroleum refineries for blending with motor spirit (petrol)

Bran, sharps and other residues, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants [other than aquatic feed including shrimp feed and prawn feed, poultry feed and cattle feed, including grass, hay and straw, supplement and additives, husk of pulses including chilka, concentrates including chuni or churi, khanda, wheat bran, de-oiled cake]