Greetings to all!
I wish to start an online portal (in India) wherein service providers and service seekers (collectively "portal users") shall post their needs and the portal shall match the requirements, showing contact details of the interested parties. So basically, I am only providing a platform to connect the actual service provider with service seeker and vice versa; by charging them a nominal portal subscriptttion fees.
The portal users may use portal's messaging platform for discussions or may discuss the same offline (through phone or their emails) and finalize the deal (portal has no business in finalization, neither we are charging any commission). The actual service shall be provided offline (i.e. not through our portal), directly from service provider to the service seeker.
The portal users may be based anywhere in the world (of course including India) and may be making online payment towards portal subscripttion in foreign currency(ies). I would request if any of you great people can throw some light on the taxes (ST or VAT or any other such taxes) applicable on my LLP firm towards receiving the subscripttion fees. Will it be different for an Indian portal user and Foreign portal user? Also, will there any change in the taxes payable after the GST comes into effect?
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Anuj Gupta.
CAclubindia
