Can Goods Transport Agency have other source of income?

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Shalini RN (Querist)
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02 March 2023 Ours is a Sole Proprietorship Concern operating a registered Goods Transport Agency. Proprietor has let out two commercial spaces which is his ancestral property and showing it has Income from Rental income in his IT Declaration. And for rental income he is paying GST @ 18% also under firm's GST number itself. He is providing Man power for the sake of loading and unloading at one of customer's place for which we are including its cost in monthly billing other than transportation charges. And we were advised to bill Rent and manpower supplies with GST rate @ 18%. For transportation charges we were billing under RCM. We did not opt for Forward charge mechanism for Financial year 2022-23 and were not taking Input tax credit also. We want to go for FCM for Financial year 2023-24. But our auditor is telling since our proprietor is having rental income and manpower supplies under same GST number, we cannot give declaration in annexure 5 for opting FCM and not giving any clarification. But we want to go for FCM and avail Input tax credit facility as our main business is of GTA. Please give clarity about whole scenario and advice.

Thanking you,

Shalini RN