Section-55(GST). : Special procedure for removal of goods for certain purposes
- (1) A registered taxable person (hereinafter referred to in this section as the “principal”) may, under intimation and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, send any inputs and/or capital goods, without payment of tax, to a job worker for job-work and from there subsequently send to another job worker and likewise, and shall -
(a) bring back inputs, after completion of job-work or otherwise, and/or capital goods, other than moulds and dies, jigs and fixtures, or tools, within one year and three years, respectively, of their being sent out, to any of his place of business, without payment of tax;
(b) supply such inputs, after completion of job-work or otherwise, and/or capital goods, other than moulds and dies, jigs and fixtures, or tools, within one year and three years, respectively, of their being sent out from the place of business of a job-worker on payment of tax within India, or with or without payment of tax for export, as the case may be:
PROVIDED that the “principal” shall not supply the goods from the place of business of a job worker in terms of clause (b) unless the said “principal” declares the place of business of the job-worker as his additional place of business except in a case-
- (i) where the job worker is registered under section 23 ; or
- (ii) where the “principal” is engaged in the supply of such goods as may be notified by the Commissioner in this behalf.
- (2) The responsibility for accountability of the inputs and/or capital goods shall lie with the “principal”.
- (3) Where the inputs sent for job-work are not received back by the “principal” after completion of job-work or otherwise in accordance with clause(a) of sub-section (1) or are not supplied from the place of business of the job worker in accordance with clause (b) of sub-section (1) within a period of one year of their being sent out, it shall be deemed that such inputs had been supplied by the principal to the job-worker on the day when the said inputs were sent out.
- (4) Where the capital goods, other than moulds and dies, jigs and fixtures, or tools, sent for job-work are not received back by the “principal” in accordance with clause(a) of sub-section (1) or are not supplied from the place of business of the job worker in accordance with clause (b) of sub-section (1) within a period of three years of their being sent out, it shall be deemed that such capital goods had been supplied by the principal to the job-worker on the day when the said capital goods were sent out.
- (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), any waste and scrap generated during the job work may be supplied by the job worker directly from his place of business on payment of tax if such job worker is registered, or by the principal, if the job worker is not registered.
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