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Composition Scheme - Comprehensive Computation

# Composition Scheme: End-to-End Comprehensive Application

This lesson integrates aggregate turnover computation, eligibility check, continuation check, tax calculation (including RCM) and the fly-ash brick disqualification.

## Key Reminders

  • Aggregate Turnover excludes GST charged but includes excise/cess collected (since pre-GST levies that exist for some goods are part of turnover).
  • Interest on FD is exempt supply but is included in aggregate turnover for the threshold check (the carve-out only applies to the 10%/₹5 lakh marginal-service limit).
  • However for the marginal services 10% formula, interest is excluded.
  • Notified products such as ice cream, pan masala, tobacco, aerated water, fly ash bricks, bricks of fossil meals, building bricks, earthen/roofing tiles make a person ineligible for composition.
  • Composition rate for manufacturer = 1% (½% CGST + ½% SGST) on turnover in State.
  • Restaurant services attract 5% composition rate.
  • Inward RCM supplies → tax at normal rates, NOT composition rate.

Worked example

### Example 1

Example – RSA Firm (Garment Manufacturer, Jammu)

Facts: Preceding FY → Garments ₹1.2 cr; Tobacco ₹30 lakhs (incl. ₹10 lakh excise & ₹5 lakh GST); FD Interest ₹20 lakhs.

Current FY (Q1): Garments ₹50 lakhs; FD Interest ₹10 lakhs; Restaurant services to employees ₹20 lakhs; Other exempt services ₹5 lakhs; Legal services received inter-state under RCM ₹10 lakhs. Tax rate 18%.

Solution:

(1) Aggregate Turnover (Preceding FY)

= ₹1.2 cr + (₹30 lakhs − ₹5 lakhs GST) + ₹20 lakhs interest

= ₹1.45 crores (excise included; GST excluded; interest included for AT)

(2) Can opt this year?

Yes. AT (₹1.45 cr) ≤ ₹1.5 cr threshold for Jammu & Kashmir.

(3) Can it continue this FY?

Yes, because:

  • AT in current year does not cross ₹1.5 cr, AND
  • Marginal service limit not breached:
  • Higher of 10% × ₹1.45 cr (= ₹14.5 lakhs) or ₹5 lakhs → ₹14.5 lakhs cap on non-restaurant services
  • Restaurant services are unlimited (subject to ₹1.5 cr aggregate cap).

(4) Tax for quarter ended June

  • On outward supplies @ 1% on (₹50 + ₹20 + ₹5) lakhs = 1% × ₹75 lakhs = ₹75,000 (CGST ₹37,500 + SGST ₹37,500). Interest on FD is exempt — not added.
  • On inward RCM (legal services) @ 18% × ₹10 lakhs = ₹1,80,000 (IGST as inter-state).
  • Total = ₹2,55,000

(5) If RSA started manufacturing fly-ash bricks

No. Fly-ash bricks is a notified product → composition supplier becomes ineligible and must exit the scheme.

⚠️ Common exam mistakes

  • Including GST collected in aggregate turnover (GST is excluded; only excise/non-GST taxes are included).
  • Charging composition rate (1%) on inward RCM supplies — RCM is always at normal rates.
  • Adding exempt FD interest to outward turnover for tax computation (it's exempt — taxable @ 0).
  • Forgetting that fly-ash bricks (and other notified items like ice-cream, pan masala, tobacco, aerated water) auto-disqualify from composition.
Reference: Section 10 read with Notification No. 14/2019-CT — CGST Act, 2017
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