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Date: 31-Dec-2024 Category: Extra Ordinary State: Union Government Country: India

DGST AMENDMENT ACT

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Executive Summary & Key Takeaways

What it means

  • The gazette notification details amendments to the Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, specifically targeting online gaming, online money gaming, and specified actionable claims. It introduces definitions for these terms and clarifies the tax liabilities for suppliers of these services.
  • The amendment expands the scope of taxable supplies under GST to include online gaming and online money gaming and redefines actionable claims to include these activities and also virtual digital assets. It also clarifies that any person facilitating such supplies, including platform operators, will be considered a supplier.

Key Changes

  • A new definition for 'online gaming' is introduced, meaning offering a game on the internet or an electronic network, which includes online money gaming.
  • A new definition for 'online money gaming' is introduced, meaning online gaming where players deposit money or money's worth, including virtual digital assets, with the expectation of winning, irrespective of whether the outcome is based on skill or chance.
  • A new definition for 'specified actionable claim' is introduced, which includes betting, casinos, gambling, horse racing, lottery, and online money gaming.
  • A proviso is added to the definition of 'supplier', stating that any person who organizes or arranges the supply of specified actionable claims, including platform operators, will be considered a supplier and liable to pay tax.
  • A new definition for 'virtual digital asset' is introduced, which has the same meaning as in the Income-tax Act, 1961.
  • Section 24 of the Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act is amended to include persons supplying online money gaming from outside India to a person in India as those who are required to register for GST.
  • Schedule III of the Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act is amended to replace 'lottery, betting and gambling' with 'specified actionable claims'.
  • The amendments are without prejudice to any other law regulating these activities.

Impact Analysis

Online Gaming and Platform Operators

  • Operators will need to implement systems to track and report transactions involving virtual digital assets.

Consumers

  • The amendment brings clarity on the tax treatment of online gaming, which may lead to increased transparency in the industry.

Government

  • The government will need to monitor the impact of these changes on the online gaming industry and consumer behavior.

Action Items

  • All stakeholders should monitor further notifications and clarifications from the government regarding the implementation of these amendments.

Key Entities Referenced

Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017: The primary legislation being amended by this notification. Income-tax Act, 1961: The Act from which the definition of 'virtual digital asset' is adopted. National Capital Territory of Delhi: The jurisdiction where these amendments are applicable. Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi: The body that passed the amendment act.
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Governor of Delhi on the 25th October, 2024 and is hereby published for general information. THE DELHI GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2024 (DELHI ACT No. 05 OF 2024) (As passed by the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi on 27.09.2024). [31st December, 2024] An Act to further to amend the Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act 2017(3 of 2017) BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in the Seventy-Fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. Short title and commencement:- (i) This Act may be called the Delhi Goods and Services (Amendment) Act, 2024. (ii) Section 2 to5 of the Act shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, in the Official Gazette, appoint and the different date may be appointed for different provisions of this Act. 2. Amendment of section 2:- In the Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017(here in after referred to as Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act), in section 2, –– (a) after clause (80), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:— '(80A) "online gaming" means offering of a game on the internet or an electronic network and includes online money gaming; (80B) "online money gaming" means online gaming in which players pay or deposit money or money's worth, including virtual digital assets, in the expectation of winning money or money's worth, including virtual digital assets, in any event including game, scheme, competition or any other activity or process, whether or not its outcome or performance is based on skill, chance or both and whether the same is permissible or otherwise under any other law for the time being in force;’; (b) after clause (102), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:— '(102A) "specified actionable claim" means the actionable claim involved in or by way of— (i) betting; (ii) casinos; (iii) gambling; (iv) horse racing; (v) lottery; or (vi) online money gaming;’; (c) in clause (105), the following proviso shall be inserted at the end, namely:— "Provided that a person who organises or arranges, directly or indirectly, supply of specified actionable claims, including a person who owns, operates or manages digital or electronic platform for such supply, shall be deemed to be a supplier of such actionable claims, whether such actionable claims are supplied by him or through him and whether consideration in money or money's worth, including virtual digital assets, for supply of such actionable claims is paid or conveyed to him or through him or placed at his disposal in any manner, and all the provisions of this Act shall apply to such supplier of specified actionable claims, as if he is the supplier liable to pay the tax in relation to the supply of such actionable claims;"; (d) after clause (117), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:— ‘(117A) "virtual digital asset" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (47A) of section 2 of the Income-tax Act, 1961;4 DELHI GAZETTE : EXTRAORDINARY PART IV] 3. Amendment of section 24:-In the Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act, in Section 24, –– (a) in clause (xi), the word "and" ocurring at the end, shall be omitted; (b) after clause (xi), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:— "(xia) every person supplying online money gaming from a place outside India to a person in India; and". 4. Amendment of Schedule-III In Schedule III to the Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act, in paragraph 6, for the words “lottery, betting and gambling” the words “specified actionable claims” shall be substituted. 5. Transitory provision:- The amendments made under this Act shall be without prejudice to provisions of any other law for the time being in force, providing for prohibiting, restricting or regulating betting, casino, gambling, horse racing, lottery or online gaming. SAMAR VISHAL, Special Secy. Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.

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