GST on Stock Broking Services - Applicability and Places of Business

GST on Stock Broking Services - Applicability and Places of Business


Stockbroking is an administration which gives retail and institutional speculators the chance to purchase and offer offers. A stockbroker is a man or a firm that offers a stockbroking administration. Stock exchanges force strict standards and controls on who can exchange shares straightforwardly on their books and that is the motivation behind why the vast majority of the people/organizations wanting to bargain in offers will do the same by means of stockbrokers.

Further, a 'Sub-Broker' is an individual who isn't a Trading Member of a Stock Exchange yet who acts for the benefit of a Trading Member as a specialist or generally to assist speculators in managing in securities through such Trading Members. In this article, we take a gander at the GST ramifications of stockbroking administration including stockbroker and sub-representative.

Place of Business 


Segment 2 (85) of the CGST Act gives that the term 'place of business' incorporates:


  • A place a place from where the business is usually gone ahead and incorporates a stockroom, a godown or whatever another place where an assessable individual stores his products, supplies or gets merchandise or benefits or both; or 

  • A place where an assessable individual keeps up his books of record; or 

  • A place where an assessable individual is occupied with business through a specialist, by whatever name called. 

  • In the event of tasks of a stockbroker, the place of business would take after: 

  • Every one of the branches of the stockbroker where the stock exchange trading terminals are found and where the exchange is completed for the customers; 

  • Primary office/Head office/Registered office/Branch office where back-office tasks are completed including issuing of bills/contracts/impose solicitations/account articulations to the customers. 



Place of Supply 


Arrangements of the place of supply of administration if there should be an occurrence of stockbroking administrations are contained in segment (12) of IGST Act and the same is replicated hereunder:

"The place of supply of keeping money and other monetary administrations, including stock broking administrations to any individual might be the area of the beneficiary of administrations on the records of the provider of administration. Given that if the area of the beneficiary of administration isn't on the records of the provider, the place of supply should be the area of the provider of administrations."

Based on above arrangements of the area (12), it can be inferred that the place of supply of administration, if there should be an occurrence of stockbroking administration, would be characterized into following two classifications:

At the point when records of the provider of administration are accessible – In such case, place of supply of administration would be the area of the beneficiary of administration

At the point when records of the provider of administration are not accessible – In such case, place of supply of administration would be the area of the provider of administration.

Applicability of GST 


There are different sorts of administrations and supply gave by a specialist as under:

Financier Earned in Stock Broking 

Stock dealers are occupied with the matter of providing the stockbroking administration and consequently, GST is payable on the financier earned by giving stock broking administration.

Intrigue or Delayed Payment Charges 

Additionally, GST would be an application on any intrigue/deferred installment charges charged for delay in an installment of financier sum/settlement commitments/edge trading office.

GST for Sub-Brokers 


Sub-representatives, as characterized under Stock Brokers and Sub Brokers Regulation, 1992, implies an individual, not being an individual from the stock exchange, who acts for the benefit of a stock merchant as a specialist or generally to assist the speculators in purchasing, offering or managing in securities through such stock dealers.

According to segment 2 (5) of CGST Act, 2017, the expression "specialist" implies a man, including a factor, dealer, commission operator, Croatia, del credere specialist, a barker or some other trade operator, by whatever name called, who carries on the matter of supply or receipt of products or administrations or both for the benefit of another.

Sub-representative would obviously be giving administrations to the stock dealer and in addition to the customers/speculator and getting thought from both. Hence, in such a case, where the subspecialist is giving administrations both to the dealer and the speculator for the benefit of the facilitate, the sub-merchant would be appropriately secured inside the meaning of 'operator' as gave in Section 2(5) of the CGST Act, and needs to obligatorily enroll themselves under GST without the edge exclusion under Section 24(vii) of the CGST Act, 2017.

Be that as it may, if the sub-specialists don't give any support of the customers/financial specialist for the benefit of stock merchant (for instance referral commission just), at that point the said sub-dealers would not fall in the meaning of "operator" under the CGST Act, 2017 and arrangements of GST would be made appropriate in like manner.


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Treatment of Securities 


Segment 2 (101) of the CGST Act, 2017 characterizes "securities" to have an indistinguishable importance from doled out to it in proviso (h) of segment 2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956.

Segment 2 (52) of the CGST Act, 2017 characterizes "merchandise" to mean each sort of portable property other than cash and securities yet incorporates actionable claim, developing yields, grass and things connected to or framing some portion of the land which are consented to be separated before supply or under a contract of supply.

In this manner from the above definition, it can be inferred that the securities are not merchandise under the CGST Act, 2017.

Segment 2(102) of the CGST Act, 2017 characterizes "administrations" to mean something besides products, cash and securities yet incorporates activities identifying with the utilization of cash or its change with money or by some other mode, from one shape, money or division, to another frame, cash or group for which a different thought is charged. Subsequently, securities are not benefits under the CGST Act, 2017.

Since securities neither fall in the meaning of merchandise nor in the meaning of administrations, they fall in the meaning of "non-assessable supply" under area 2 (78) of the CGST Act, 2017 and arrangements of GST would be made the material as needs are.

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