INTRODUCTION, APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS UNDER IGST ACT

Introduction

Integrated Goods and Services Tax is applicable in cases where there is inter-state supply. Newly inserted Article 269A of the Constitution as amended in the form of 101st Constitution Act, 2016 provides that the power to levy and collect tax in case of inter-state supply of goods or services shall be of Central Government and thereafter, the said revenue shall be apportioned between the Central Government and the state governments in the agreed ratio.

Applicability

Section 1
Short title, extent and commencement
Sub-Section (1)	• This Act may be called the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.
Sub-Section (2)	• It extends to the whole of India
Sub-Section (3)	• It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.( Appointed date:22-06-2017)
	• Different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.
Section 2 – Definitions
Sub-Section (1)	Central Goods and Services Tax Act	means the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.
Sub-Section (2)	Central tax	means the tax levied and collected under the Central Goods and Services Tax Act
Sub-Section (3)	Continuous journey	means a journey for which a single or more than one ticket or invoice is issued at the same time, either by a single supplier of service or through an agent acting on behalf of more than one supplier of service, and which involves no stopover between any of the legs of the journey for which one or more separate tickets or invoices are issued.
		Explanation.— For the purposes of this clause, the term “stopover” means a place where a passenger can disembark either to transfer to another conveyance or break his journey for a certain period in order to resume it at a later point of time;
Sub-Section (4)	Customs frontiers of India	means the limits of a customs area as defined in section 2 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962)
Sub-Section (5)	Export of goods	with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means taking goods out of India to a place outside India
Sub-Section (6)	Export of services	means the supply of any service when,— the supplier of service is located in India; the recipient of service is located outside India; the place of supply of service is outside India; the payment for such service has been received by the supplier of service in convertible foreign exchange or in Indian rupees wherever permitted by the Reserve Bank of India ; and the supplier of service and the recipient of service are not merely establishments of a distinct person in accordance with Explanation 1 in section 8
Sub-Section (7)	Fixed establishment	means a place (other than the registered place of business) which is characterised by a sufficient degree of permanence and suitable structure in terms of human and technical resources to supply services or to receive and use services for its own needs;
Sub-Section (8)	Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act	means the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act, 2017
Sub-Section (9)	Government	means the Central Government
Sub-Section (10)	Import of goods	with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means bringing goods into India from a place outside India
Sub-Section (11)	Import of services	means the supply of any service, where— the supplier of service is located outside India; the recipient of service is located in India; and the place of supply of service is in India
Sub-Section (12)	Integrated tax	means the integrated goods and services tax levied under this Act
Sub-Section (13)	Intermediary	means a broker, an agent or any other person, by whatever name called, who arranges or facilitates the supply of goods or services or both, or securities, between two or more persons, but does not include a person who supplies such goods or services or both or securities on his own account
Sub-Section (14)	Location of the recipient of services	means,— where a supply is received at a place of business for which the registration has been obtained, the location of such place of business; where a supply is received at a place other than the place of business for which registration has been obtained (a fixed establishment elsewhere), the location of such fixed establishment; where a supply is received at more than one establishment, whether the place of business or fixed establishment, the location of the establishment most directly concerned with the receipt of the supply; and in absence of such places, the location of the usual place of residence of the recipient
Sub-Section (15)	Location of the supplier of services	means,— where a supply is made from a place of business for which the registration has been obtained, the location of such place of business; where a supply is made from a place other than the place of business for which registration has been obtained (a fixed establishment elsewhere), the location of such fixed establishment; where a supply is made from more than one establishment, whether the place of business or fixed establishment, the location of the establishment most directly concerned with the provision of the supply; and in absence of such places, the location of the usual place of residence of the supplier
Sub-Section (16)	Non-taxable online recipient	means any Government, local authority, governmental authority, an individual or any other person not registered and receiving online information and database access or retrieval services in relation to any purpose other than commerce, industry or any other business or profession, located in taxable territory. Explanation.—For the purposes of this clause, the expression “governmental authority” means an authority or a board or any other body,— set up by an Act of Parliament or a State Legislature; or established by any Government, with ninety per cent or more participation by way of equity or control, to carry out any function entrusted to a Panchayat under article 243G or to a municipality under Article 243W of the Constitution
Sub-Section (17)	Online information and database access or retrieval services	means services whose delivery is mediated by information technology over the internet or an electronic network and the nature of which renders their supply essentially automated and involving minimal human intervention and impossible to ensure in the absence of information technology and includes electronic services such as,— advertising on the internet; providing cloud services; provision of e-books, movie, music, software and other intangibles through telecommunication networks or internet; providing data or information, retrievable or otherwise, to any person in electronic form through a computer network; online supplies of digital content (movies, television shows, music and the like); digital data storage; and online gaming
Sub-Section (18)	Output tax	in relation to a taxable person, means the integrated tax chargeable under this Act on taxable supply of goods or services or both made by him or by his agent but excludes tax payable by him on reverse charge basis
Sub-Section (19)	Special Economic Zone	shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (za) of section 2 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005)
Sub-Section (20)	Special Economic Zone developer	shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (g) of section 2 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005) and includes an Authority as defined in clause (d) and a Co-Developer as defined in clause (f) of section 2 of the said Act
Sub-Section (21)	Supply	shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in section 7 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act
Sub-Section (22)	Taxable territory	means the territory to which the provisions of this Act apply
Sub-Section (23)	Zero-rated supply	shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 16
Sub-Section (24)	words and expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act and the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in those Acts.
Sub-Section (25)	any reference in this Act to a law which is not in force in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, shall, in relation to that State be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that State