IGST Exemption Rates for 18 Covid-19 Medicines and Devices Notified

·    Exemptions Valid for 105 days till 30 Sept 2021

·    Medical Grade Oxygen and Oxygen Concentrators at 5%

·    Ambulances at 12%

·    Amphotericin B and Tocilizumab – Nil; Others 5%

[Notification No. 05/2021-Integrated Tax (Rate) dated 14 June 2021]

G.S.R….(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017) (hereafter in this notification referred to as “the said Act”), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby exempts the goods specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading or Chapter as specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), as the case may be, as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), of the Table below, from the so much of the integrated tax leviable thereon under section 5 of the said Act, as in excess of the amount as specified in corresponding entry in column (4) of the aforesaid Table, namely:-

 

Table

Sl. No.

Chapter, Heading, Sub-heading or Tariff item

Description of Goods

Rate

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

1

2804

Medical Grade Oxygen

5%

2

30

Tocilizumab

Nil

3

30

Amphotericin B

Nil

4

30

Remdesvir

5%

5

30

Heparin (anti-coagulant)

5%

6

3002 or 3822

Covid-19 testing kits

5%

7

3002 or 3822

Inflammatory Diagnostic (marker) kits, namely- IL6, D-Dimer, CRP (C-Reactive Protein), LDH (Lactate De-Hydrogenase), Ferritin, Pro Calcitonin (PCT) and blood gas reagents.

5%

8

3804 94

Hand Sanitizer

5%

9

6506 99 00

Helmets for use with non-invasive ventilation

5%

10

8417 or 8514

Gas/Electric/other furnaces for crematorium

5%

11

9018 19 or 9804

Pulse Oximeter

5%

12

9018

High flow nasal canula device

5%

13

9019 20 or 9804

Oxygen Concentrator/ generator

5%

14

9018 or 9019

Ventilators

5%

15

9019

BiPAP Machine

5%

16

9019

(i)   Non-invasive ventilation nasal or oronasal masks for ICU ventilators

(ii)  Canula for use with ventilators

5%

17

9025

Temperature check equipment

5%

18

8702 or 8703

Ambulances

12%

2. This notification shall remain in force upto and inclusive of the 30th September, 2021.

[F.No. CBIC-190354/63/2021-TO(TRU-I)-CBEC]