Anna university to charge 18% GST for migration certs

Anna university to charge 18% GST for migration certs

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Chennai:24.11.2021

Anna University on Tuesday announced that all candidates applying for migration certificates, certificate verification and seeking photocopy of answer sheets need to pay 18% GST as the university adopted the Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017. "The services which are part of the curriculum are exempted under GST. All other services are taxable as per GST Act 2017," a circular from controller of examinations said. Students who graduate need to pay GST for provisional certificates, consolidated mark statements, grade sheets and degree certificates. They also need to pay the tax for getting duplicate certificates of grade sheets, provisional certificates and consolidated marksheets.

There will be no GST on examination fees, revaluation fees, transcript fees and degree certificate, rank certificate of current students.

"The beneficiaries are requested to pay the GST as mentioned above along with the regular fees prescribed for each item," the circular further said.

Professors from the university said the GST council wanted the university to collect tax for all services.

Earlier, speaking to reporters after inaugurating a book exhibition, Anna University vice-chancellor R Velraj said the university will form a committee to review the revaluation fees following representation from the students. The university is collecting ₹700 per answer sheet for revaluation.

He further said the syllabus for the first year students has been trimmed to reduce the burden. More than one lakh books have been displayed in the exhibition. The university asked the faculty members, research scholars and students to recommend engineering and non-engineering books for the library.