GST ON cloud services under RCM

I am paying usage charges for cloud services (supplier is outside India). Do I need to pay GST on the bill amount under RCM.

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This discussion clarifies whether GST is applicable under the Reverse Charge Mechanism (RCM) for cloud services where the supplier is located outside India. It confirms that if you're a registered recipient in India, you're generally liable to pay GST at 18% on these imported services, even for low monthly bills. The thread also touches upon the practicalities of reporting these transactions in your GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B returns.

In India, services mediated by information technology over the internet or an electronic network and with minimal human intervention are taxed @ 18%. These services are officially called Online Information Database Access and Retrieval (OIDAR) services.

If the supplier is outside the taxable territory, and the recipient located in India is registered under GST, then the recipient has to pay GST under RCM.

Is there any value defined below which the recipient don't have to pay. The value of these bills is quite low such as 3-4K a month.

Any reverts on this??

It looks like tax needs to be paid under RCM by recipient of services for import of services (Server hosting charges paid). Now the question is how to show this in GSTR 1. Supplier (being Non resident) does not have GST number in India and does not file GST returns. How can receiver show this in his GSTR 1 and GSTR 3B. 

GST under RCM applies when you import services from outside India, which includes cloud services from AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or any foreign OIDAR service provider.

Here is how it works in practice:

Rate: 18% IGST on the invoice amount (converted to INR at the date of payment or the RBI reference rate for the month).

What you need to do each month:
- Raise a self-invoice in your own name for the cloud service payment.
- Report it in GSTR-1 under Table 4B (outward supplies by a registered taxpayer where tax is paid under RCM).
- Pay the IGST through your Electronic Cash Ledger via your GSTR-3B filing.
- Claim this IGST as ITC in the same or subsequent GSTR-3B filing (under Table 4A(3) - inward supplies under RCM).

For registered businesses, the net GST cost is usually nil because the RCM paid gets fully offset as ITC. The main obligation is the compliance: raise the self-invoice, report, pay, and claim.

Composition dealers cannot claim ITC on RCM and the cost sticks.

This [GST on import of services RCM guide](https://taxgarden.in/blog/gst-on-import-of-services-rcm-india-2026) covers the self-invoice format and the GSTR-3B entry for cloud and SaaS services specifically.

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