Do restaurant owners have to pay GST on the entire amount of the bill if delivery is done by Zomato?

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Do restaurant owners have to pay GST on the entire What is the full form of GST?
amount of the bill if delivery is done by Zomato? What will be the rate of GST?

3 Answers How do you pay a complete restaurant bill yet

you have less amount?
Radha Arun, Consultant in service tax, central excise and customs
Answered Apr 4, 2018 · Author has 388 answers and 369.7k answer views
Is it correct to pay the GST tax amount without an
invoice or bill?
As I understand the model, Zomato is an aggregator of food supply and
Who is liable to pay GST? Is there any price slab?
therefore is an ‘e-commerce operator’ in GST. The billing is done on the Zomato
portal, through which the restaurant is connected and issues the bill. Zomato Why does GST is a money bill?

must be deducting one per cent GST at source from the payment to the What is GST advanced to pay?
restaurant, in addition to its own commission, on which also it will charge GST.
How is the GST beneficial for Indian tax paying
The one per cent will be adjusted by the restaurant while paying its own GST to consumers? We are now paying a GST of approx
9-10% of the total billed amount at restaurants, ...
the government.
What is the GST Bill issue?
Zomato is merely another service provider to the restaurant, like other suppliers
What if I will not pay GST?
of goods and services to it. The customer is not concerned with these
arrangements between the restaurant and Zomato, and will pay the bill raised  Ask New Question
by the restaurant. The restaurant must collect and pay GST on the bill amount.

I must clarify, in response to another answer given here, that supply of food by a
restaurant is considered as service and not ‘goods’ in GST. This is by virtue of
item 6 in Schedule II to the CGST Act 2017.
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Pravesh Agarwal, Diploma. Goods and Services Tax in India & Direct Taxation,
St. Xavier's College, Kolkata (2018)
Answered Apr 4, 2018

Greeting of the day !

GST is charged om supply of goods and services. Here supply happens to be the
key term. As per your question , the situation described is that the resturant is
providing food and delivery is done by zomato.

In such a case the resturant is the supplier of goods and zomato is the supplier of
service , resturant pays GST on the bill amount excluding taxes and delivery
charges ( by zomato) but inclusive of service charge( if any) @ 5%.

The delivery partner , zomato in this case pays GST only on the amount of

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delivery , i.e. Rs 25 in most cases.

The supply is the key to decide who pays GST on what. Hope this answers your
concern .

Wish you luck.!

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Nikhil Vadia, CA Income Taxes & Goods and Services Tax in India, The Institute
of Chartered Accountants of India (1997)
Answered Apr 4, 2018

GST is payble on the amount charged to Customer. Since entire bill will be paid
by Customer, GST will be on full bill amount.

Usually Zomato will deduct its commission and pay you the balance amount.
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