Reverse charge mechanism

Reverse charge

Lets start with an example of person doing trading of cotton.
For example Mr. A is cotton trader. He has GST number.
Lets say this is July 2017 and Mr. A purchase some amount of cotton from farmers (i e. Unregistered dealer). He buys a cotton worth of Rs. 1 Crore and sale it.
Now for GST he will need to pay 5 lakh for sales and 5 lakh as a reverse charge. So he pays total 10lakh of GST into which 5 lakh will be saved as an ITC.
Now the next month i.e. August.

This time Mr. A purchase cotton worth of 20lakhs and sell it.
Now this time he will pay 1 lakh on sales and 1 lakh on purchase (i.e. reverse charge) but he will get ITC reduce from sales GST so he will need to pay only reverse charge that is 1 lakh (ITC remain 4 lakh). But paid 1 lakh as reverse charge so again ITC will be 5 lakh in next month.

So by this mechanism Mr.A's Rs. 5 lakh will always remain as GST credit. This amount can increase but never can decrease.

It means if you are doing business with unregistered dealer your some amount of money will always remain to government unless you stop the business.

Correct me if I'm wrong anywhere!! (Please forgive my english, hope you understand the point)
Replies (4)
In the same month u can avail of ITC paid towards RCM
In the above Eg
Case 1 : It is enough if he pays 5 Lakhs
Case 2: 1 Lakh is enough
as far as i got your point, you are correct to some extent. but RCM is not applicable as of now on purchase from unregistered dealers.

yet, if rcm will be applicable, mr.A will take itc of rcm of 5 lakh for settlement of his output tax liability.
so in totality he has to pay only 5 lakh in cash.
Yes sec 9(4) not applies now & cotton is not covered under goods specified under sec 9(3)
thanks for your helpful reply.

I have ITC of 8 lakh presently, now how can I claim it back.

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