{"id":34035,"date":"2018-10-30T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34035"},"modified":"2018-10-30T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:04:17","slug":"record-diplomatic-bodies-uin-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/record-diplomatic-bodies-uin-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Record diplomatic bodies UIN : Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Industry\/record-foreign-diplomatic-bodies-uin\/article20394871.ece\"><b>Record diplomatic bodies UIN : Centre<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has clarified that sales or supply to foreign diplomatic missions or UN organisations will not have any additional effect on the supplier\u2019s tax liability<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supplies of such nature must be recorded along with the Unique Identification Number (UIN) of the recipient.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is Unique Identification Number (UIN)?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unique Identification Number, UIN, is a special class of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GST registration for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">foreign diplomatic missions<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and embassies<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which are not liable to taxes in the Indian territory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any amount of tax (direct or indirect) collected from such bodies is refunded back to them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why is the signification of UIN?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This clarification follows several foreign diplomatic missions complaining that their suppliers are refusing to record their UIN during transactions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recording of UIN will enable foreign diplomatic missions\/UN organisations to claim refund of the taxes paid by them in India<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What was the issue?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foreign diplomats posted in New Delhi have complained to the Ministry of External Affairs that the Goods and Services Tax regime has modified the tax-exempt status of the foreign missions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The diplomats also complained that the UIN system infringed on the confidentiality of diplomatic practices and privacy of foreign diplomats posted in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record diplomatic bodies UIN : Centre Context The government has clarified that sales or supply to foreign diplomatic missions or UN organisations will not have any additional effect on the supplier\u2019s tax liability Supplies of such nature must be recorded along with the Unique Identification Number (UIN) of the recipient. What is Unique Identification Number&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/record-diplomatic-bodies-uin-centre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Record diplomatic bodies UIN : Centre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704636370},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}