THE KERALA GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT, 2017 History
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Body NOTIFICATION No. S.R.O. No. 715/2017, G. O. (P) No. 140/2017/TD, Dated, 14th November, 2017

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 23 of the Kerala State Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (20 of 2017), the Government of Kerala, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby specify the casual taxable persons making taxable supplies of handicraft goods as the category of persons exempted from obtaining registration under the aforesaid Act:

Provided that the aggregate value of such supplies, to be computed on all India basis, does not exceed an amount of twenty lakh rupees in a financial year.

2. The casual taxable persons mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall obtain a Permanent Account Number and generate an e-way bill in accordance with the provisions of rule 138 of the Kerala Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017.

3. The above exemption shall be available to such persons who are making inter-State taxable supplies of handicraft goods and are availing the benefit of notification No. 8/2017-Integrated Tax dated the 14th September, 2017 and published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G. S. R. 1156 (E), dated the 14th September, 2017.

Explanation.- For the purposes of this notification, the expression "handicraft goods" means the products mentioned in column (2) of the Table below and the Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HSN) code mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table, when made by the craftsmen predominantly by hand even though some machinery may also be used in the process:

Table

Sl. No.	Products	HSN Code
(1)	(2)	(3)
1.	Leather articles (including bags, purses, saddlery, harness, garments)	4201, 4202, 4203
2.	Carved wood products (including boxes, inlay work, cases, casks)	4415, 4416
3.	Carved wood products (including table and kitchenware)	4419
4.	Carved wood products	4420
5.	Wood turning and lacquer ware	4421
6.	Bamboo products [decorative and utility items]	46
7.	Grass, leaf and reed and fibre products, mats, pouches, wallets	4601, 4602
8.	Paper mache articles	4823
9	Textile (handloom products), Handmade shawls, stoles and scarves.	including 50, 58, 61, 62, 63
10.	Textiles hand printing	50, 52, 54
11.	Zari thread	5605
12.	Carpet, rugs and durries	57
13.	Textiles hand embroidery	58
14.	Theatre costumes	61, 62, 63
15.	Coir products (including mats, mattresses)	5705, 9404
16.	Leather footwear	6403, 6405
17.	Carved stone products (including statues, statuettes, figures of animals, writing sets, ashtray, candle stand)	6802
18.	Stones inlay work	68
19.	Pottery and clay products, including terracotta	6901, 6909, 6911, 6912, 6913, 6914
20.	Metal table and kitchen ware (copper, brass ware)	7418
21.	Metal statues, images/statues vases, urns and crosses of the type used for decoration of metals of chapters 73 and 74	8306
22.	Metal bidriware	8306
23.	Musical instruments	92
24.	Horn and bone products	96
25.	Conch shell crafts	96
26.	Bamboo furniture, cane/Rattan furniture
27.	Dolls and toys	9503
28.	Folk paintings, madhubani, patchitra, Rajasthani miniature	97.
29	Chain stitch	Any chapter
30	Crewel, namda, gabba	Any chapter
31	Wicker willow products	Any chapter
32	Toran	Any chapter
33	Articles made of shola	Any chapter

By order of the Governor,

Minhaj Alam,

Secretary to Government.

Explanatory Note

(This does not form part of the notification, but is intended to indicate its general purport.)

On the recommendation of the Goods and Services Tax Council, the Government of Kerala have decided to grant exemption to a casual taxable person making taxable supplies of handicraft goods from obtaining registration under the above specified certain conditions as per sub-section (2) of Section 23 of the Kerala State Goods and Services Tax Act (20 of 2017).

The notification is intended to achieve the above object.