Composition Levy Under GST

The GST Composition Scheme is ideal for small and medium businesses in India. This scheme provides an easy and simple method for businesses to maintain GST compliance. Small businesses registered under the GST composition scheme can pay tax at a prescribed percentage of turnover every quarter.

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Eligibility for Composition scheme

  • Manufacturers of goods
  • Dealers
  • Restaurants (not serving alcohol)
  • Certain service providers

Non- eligibility for Composition scheme

  • Manufacturers of ice cream, pan masala, or tobacco
  • A person making inter-state supplies
  • A casual taxable person
  • A non-resident taxable person
  • A person engaged in the supply of non-taxable goods under the GST law
  • A supplier who has exceeded the turnover threshold limit specified for opting into the composition scheme, and
  • Businesses which supply goods through an e-commerce operator.

Composition Scheme For Manufacturers And Traders/dealers

This composition scheme gives an option to a business with a turnover of less than Rs 1.5 crore in a year to pay GST at a fixed rate of 1% of the turnover. In case of North-Eastern states and Himachal Pradesh, the limit is now Rs 75 lakh.

Such composition dealer can also supply services to an extent of 10% of turnover or Rs.5 lakhs whichever is higher.

Composition scheme for brick manufacturers

This composition scheme gives an option to the manufacturers of bricks, including building bricks, bricks of fossil meals or similar siliceous earths, earthen or roofing tiles, and fly ash bricks and blocks to pay GST at a fixed rate of 6% of the turnover.

Composition scheme for restaurant services

This composition scheme gives an option to a restaurant service provider (not serving alcohol) with a turnover of less than Rs 1.5 crore in a year to pay GST at a fixed rate of 5% of the turnover. In case of North-Eastern states and Himachal Pradesh, the limit is now Rs 75 lakh.

Composition scheme for service providers

This composition scheme gives an option for service providers with turnover up to Rs. 50 lakhs to pay tax at a fixed rate of 6% of the turnover.

Composition scheme is not available for

  • Manufacturer of ice cream, pan masala, or tobacco
  • A person making inter-state supplies
  • A casual taxable person or a non-resident taxable person
  • Businesses which supply goods through an e-commerce operator
  • A person making exempted supplies

Benefits of composition scheme

  • Lesser compliance (returns, maintaining books of record, issuance of invoices, tracking input tax credit)
  • Less tax liability
  • High liquidity as there is no input tax credit to be claimed

Procedure To Opt For Composition Scheme

The person who wants to opt for this scheme will have to file Form GST CMP-02 with the government, he can also file his on GST Portal by logging in. This communication shall be done by the person at the start of every financial year that the person wants to opt for the scheme.

Compliance under composition scheme

  1. A composition dealer is required to pay tax on a quarterly basis in a challan-cum-statement (Form CMP-08).
  2. They are also required to file an annual return in Form GSTR-4.