Work Contract Service or Normal Service

Supply of both material and labour - The supplier is engaged in supply of labour ( hired labour from outside) alongwith supply of own materials such as cement, steel, sand and other materials, then such service would be classified as a “works contract”.

“Works contract” means a contract for building, construction, fabrication, completion, erection, installation, fitting out, improvement, modification, repair, maintenance, renovation, alteration, commissioning of any immovable property wherein transfer of property in goods (whether as goods or in some other form) is involved in the execution of such contract.

The expression ‘works contract’ is limited to contracts to do with immovable property.

Supply of only hired labour – If the supplier is providing only hired labour from outside and the materials is provided by the supplier, then such contracts will be called as “pure labour contracts”.