Mr. Kunal is an employee in Vijyanta and Sons, working at its Mumbai (Maharashtra) office. Mr. Kunal is unregistered under GST law. His family is located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. His son requires a laptop for his school p

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Mr. Kunal is an employee in Vijyanta and Sons, working at its Mumbai (Maharashtra) office. Mr. Kunal is unregistered under GST law. His family is located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. His son requires a laptop for his school project on urgent basis. Therefore, Mr. Kunal places an order on BBazar.in (an e-commerce platform) for supply of a laptop of latest configuration for his son, which is to be delivered at his residential address located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Mr. Kunal, while placing the order on the e-commerce platform, provides the billing address of his apartment located in Mumbai Maharashtra. You are required to determine the place of supply of laptop in the given case in the context of CGST Act, 2017.

Answer & Explanation:

As per the provisions of section 10(1)(ca) of the IGST Act, 2017, where the supply of goods is made to an unregistered person, the place of supply would be the location as per the address of said person recorded in the invoice and the location of the supplier where the address of the said person is not recorded in the invoice. Further, as per explanation to the said clause, recording the name of the State of the said unregistered person on the invoice shall be deemed to be the recording of the address of the said person. Accordingly, it is clarified vide Circular No. 209/3/2024 GST dated 26.06.2024 that in the cases involving supply of goods to an unregistered person, where the address of delivery of goods recorded on the invoice is different from the billing address of the said unregistered person on the invoice, the place of supply of goods in accordance with the provisions of section 10(1)(ca) of the IGST Act, 2017, shall be the address of delivery of goods recorded on the invoice in the present case where the delivery address is located. Also, in such cases involving supply of goods to an unregistered person, where the billing address and delivery address are different, the supplier may record the delivery address as the address of the recipient on the invoice for the purpose of determination the place of supply of the said supply of goods. Thus, the place of supply of laptop in the given case is Agra, Uttar Pradesh.

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