Advocate Hire

Dear Sir,

We have hire advocate for legal matter and pay Rs. 5000. but he is unable to provide bill. please suggest what to do in case also can we need to pay RCM
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Quick Summary
This discussion addresses a common issue where an advocate is hired for a legal matter and paid a fee, but fails to provide a bill. It clarifies that services from advocates are typically subject to GST under the Reverse Charge Mechanism (RCM). The thread provides detailed accounting entries for recording the expense, paying the RCM liability, and claiming Input Tax Credit (ITC).

You can make direct entry

Advocate A/c Dr.
To Bank A/c

Prepare voucher and take sign of Advocate
Cash voucher
write the name of advocate
to bank account
and sing it
and make your entry
As per Notification 13/2017 CT (R) ,inward supply from advocate is under RCM , so you are liable to deposit GST under RCM & can issue self tax invoice as per Section 31(3)(f) of CGST Act.
Entry will be:
legal charges 5000 dr
cgst input rcm dr 450
sgst input rcm dr 450

to cgst output rcm 450
ro sgst output rcm 450
to cash/bank 5000
Agree with Pankaj Rawat

RCM   entries  as follows 

 

1) Legal  Expense       A/c    Dr 

   To  Consultant  Advocate   A/c     Cr 

(  Being  Expense  payable )  

 

2)  Reverse  Charge     A/c   Dr 

    CGST                       A/c    Cr 

    SGST                       A/c     Cr 

(  Increase liability  of  Tax  ) 

 

3)  CGST                    A/c    Dr 

     SGST                     A/c    Dr 

     To  Bank                 A/c    Cr 

(  payment  of   Tax  , RCM  ) 

 

4)   CGST                   A/c    Dr 

       SGST                  A/c    Dr 

      To  Reverse  Charge   A/c      Cr 

(  Entry  to avail  ITC  entry   ) 

 

5)  Consultant  Advocate   A/c   Dr 

      To Bank                       A/c    Cr 

(  Payment  to Advocate )  

 Reverse  Charges  A/c  current  Assets  side  

       

Dear Parsad  hi

Nicely explain 👍

 

 

 

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