IGST on import of oxygen concentrators for personal use reduced to 12%



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The Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST) on oxygen concentrators imported for personal use has been reduced from 28% to 12%. This brings the tax rate for personal imports in line with commercial imports. This reduced rate is applicable until 30th June 2021.

IGST on Import of Oxygen Concentrators for personal use has been reduced from 28% to 12% to bring IGST rate on such personal imports at par with commercial imports of the same. This reduced IGST rate for imports of concentrator for personal use shall be applicable upto the 30/6/21, The official notification released by CBIC has been mentioned below:

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)] 

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 
MINISTRY OF FINANCE 
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE) 
Notification No. 30/2021-Customs 

New Delhi, the 1st May, 2021 

IGST on Oxygen Concentrators for Personal Use Reduced

G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the goods of the description specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling within the Chapter, heading, sub—heading or tariff item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) specified in column (2) of the said Table, when imported into India, from so much of the integrated tax leviable thereon under sub-section (7) of section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act, read with section 5 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the said Table, namely-

Table

S.No. Chapter, heading, sub-heading or tariff item Description IGST rate
 (1)  (2)  (3)  (4)
 1.  9804  Oxygen concentrator, imported for personal use  12% 

2. This notification shall remain in force upto and inclusive of the 30th June, 2021 

[F.No. CBIC-190354/1/2021-TO(TRU-I)-CBEC] 

(Gaurav Singh) 
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India 

FAQ :

The IGST rate has been reduced from 28% to 12% for oxygen concentrators imported for personal use.

The IGST rate has been reduced to make it the same as the rate applied to commercial imports of oxygen concentrators.

The reduced IGST rate is applicable up to and including 30th June 2021.

The notification was released by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) under the Ministry of Finance.




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