With Goods and services tax (GST) coming into effect from July 01, Domestic rating agency, ICRA in its latest report has said that the impact of GST is likely to be neutral to positive for most of the segments in the textile industry as compared to current domestic indirect tax regime.
As per the report, the effective tax incidence on cotton and man-made fibre (MMF) or blended textiles under the existing tax regime is in the range of 5-7 percent and 11-14 percent, respectively. Besides excise duty, it noted that this captures the impact of other multiple levies such as Value Added Tax (VAT), Central Sales Tax (CST) and entry tax or octroi. Considering that the GST rates announced for these textile categories are more or less in line with the existing effective tax rates, ICRA does not envisage any impact on these product categories. However, it said that the rates announced are expected to be positive for wool or silk-based textiles, which will be taxed at a lower rate of 5 percent compared to the prevailing tax of 8-10 percent.
The rating firm pointed out that fabric manufacturers, who operate under the composition scheme of taxation for which the Input Tax Credit (ITC) is not available will face challenges as the apparel manufactures will prefer to deal with GST-compliant fabric suppliers to avail ITC. Therefore, it noted that this will incentivise the fabric manufactures to operate under the purview of GST. It added that with the new tax regime applied on cotton yarn as well, the incentive for fabric manufacturers to not avail of the ITC will also fall, since doing so would reduce the fabric- manufacturer’s competitiveness.
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