Gst registration for freelancers

Greetings,

I am a freelancer and my turnover does not exceed 4 lakhs. So till now I did not have to register under current rules under Service or any other tax only had to pay income tax on my income. 

But with GST in which I heard that even if the threshold limit of Rs. 20 lakhs is not crossed, one could still be under GST and mandatory GST registration. 

Now most of my services are either within my city itself as I do website development or I build websites for outside India customers who pay me via Paypal. 

But I do have one customer who is outside my state. 

Now my query is this : 

a) If I do website development for customers within my city and my turnover is < 4lakhs do I come under GST?

b) If I do website development for customers within my city and foregin customers outside India and my turnover is < 4lakhs do I come under GST?

c) If I do website development for customers within my city, one customer outside my state and foregin customers outside India and my turnover is < 4lakhs do I come under GST?

For C I think if its interstate service its mandatory thats my reading of the law. But according to me if its a or b then I would not come under GST. So am I right? Or under any other category its mandatory to register under GST?

And what are the GST rates I need to collect? From what I read I feel if I have to charge GST then it would be at 18%. Am I right?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Replies (5)
Sir u are right if turnovers' not exceed 20Lakhs and you are providing interstate service then u r liable to register under gst act and to charge 18% as per the act.

Thanks for your answer.

But could you please let me know if I have to register incase

a) If I do website development for customers within my city and my turnover is < 4lakhs do I come under GST? 
b) If I do website development for customers within my city and foregin customers outside India and my turnover is < 4lakhs do I come under GST?

For example I ask my only client who is outside my state that I will no longer do website delevelopment for them then it leaves me with above 2 scenarios. So is registration mandatory then?

Thanks again for your help

 

For option a) no need to register And for option b) export of service is tax free under gst with bond of export of services IGST then i think not liable to register

Thanks for the help

Hi. Sorry for a requery. My tax consultant says that even though I dont cross any threshold limits and I only do website development in my own city or for customers outside India I still have to register for GST and I need to charge 18% as GST and submit returns as per GST rules. So this is really confusing. Can anyone confirm because if so I need to then register by tomorrow for GST. 

Secondly, as a precausionary measure can one register for GST but we dont have to charge or submit returns till we reach our threshold limits of 20 lakhs?

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