[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. 21/2018 -Union Territory Tax (Rate)
New Delhi, the 26th July, 2018
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 8 of the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (14 of 2017), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby exempts the intra-state supplies of handicraft goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading or Chapter, as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), from so much union territory tax leviable thereon under section 7 of the Union Territory Goods and Service Tax, 2017 (14 of 2017) as is in excess of the rate specified in column (4) of the said Table,
Explanation - For the purpose of this notification, the expression “handicraft goods” means “Goods predominantly made by hand even though some tools or machinery may also have been used in the process; such goods are graced with visual appeal in the nature of ornamentation or in-lay work or some similar work of a substantial nature; possess distinctive features, which can be aesthetic, artistic, ethnic or culturally attached and are amply different from mechanically produced goods of similar utility”
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Notification No : 21/2018-Union Territory tax(rate)Published in GST
Source : http://www.cbic.gov.in/htdocs-cbec/gst/notfctn-21-2018-utgst-rate-english.pdf