Freight charges in books of account

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WE HAVE CHARGED FREIGHT ON SALE BILL AND ALSO CHARGED GST ON IT. BUT IN BOOKS OF ACCOUNT WE SHOWN THE FREIGHT AMOUNT CLUBBED WITH SALE FIGURE. IS IT CORRECT ACCOUNTING. PLESAE CLEARIFY.

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it is an example of Composite Supply.
both the element to b shown separately in BOA.
Freight amount not to b clubbed in sales figure if transportation service takes from outside.
well more clarification is required in question.

WE HAVE OWN COMPANY VEHICLE. AND SOMETIMES WE SEND THRU COURIER, AND COURIER AGENCY PROVIDE US THE BILL.

You have to show separte amount  of   fright  charges , can not  clubbed with sales  in the books of accounts  , however you have to  calculate  gst  on both , (sales + fright  charges ) .

Take fright charges ledger account  under  indrect  expense 

agreed with prasad...
well u can claim itc on such vehicle as well
Hsn code for Freight charges

fright charges is service , so it is having SAC code not HSN code  . please confirm with others also 

Group 99651   Land transport services of Goods
  996511 Road transport services of Goods including letters, parcels, live animals, household & office furniture, containers etc by refrigerator vehicles, trucks, trailers, man or animal drawn vehicles or any other vehicles.
  996512 Railway transport services of Goods including letters, parcels, live animals, household & office furniture, intermodal containers, bulk cargo etc
  996513 Transport services of petroleum & natural gas, water, sewerage and other goods via pipeline
  996519 Other land transport services of go
We deliver goods to our party at their factory. The invoice doesn't mention frieght as we have to pay for freight.. we have to take builty to make insurance cover while transit. Will it be exempt under ' services by way of transportation' or we need to pay 5percent RCM as we took builty

Freight charges is part of valuation of outward supply If your sales term is freight paid basis and accordingly GST will levied on whole transaction(invoice) value including freight value. HSN code will be the same applicable on product. There is no question of ITC on freight as this is include in value of outward supply.

You may club freight with sales  or shown separately in bill  depend upon the price negotiated with customer.

You can show in books it under sales group.

Hope this clarify you.

The customer doesn't care about the freight. They want bill based on sale rate * weight * Gst. And doesn't want to us to issue any frieght bill or even charges on the invoice. What should we do.

Is it will be exempted as ' services by way of transportation'..?

Or we took the service and needs to pay RCM 5% by making a self purchase invoice.??

In our accounting, we have written this amount under indirect expenses.. 

If selling price should not include freight and if freight is on To Pay basis (payable by buyer), then issue separate debit note towards freight including GST payable on freight if applicable.


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