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. 

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