How to identify supply as Composite or Mixed supply and their taxability ?
TRT-2026-1158

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no

Held - We find that naturally bundled services are those services wherein one of the services is the main service and the other services combined with such service are in the nature of incidental or ancillary services which help in better enjoyment of a main service.

We observe that the services supplied by the applicant such as hostel accommodation, food etc. to the student of Rs. Less than 1000/- per day per student is not a Composite .....

TRT-2026-360

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no

Held - We find that in the instant case the appellant is supplying various services like supply of food, TV in dining hall, Playroom, Gym, Housekeeping of entire hostel premises, Room cleaning and Washing/ dry-cleaning of bed sheets & linen of rooms along with Hostel Accommodation service. In view of the discussion of above para 6.4.1 and 6.4.2, we are of the view that supply of various other services as detailed above with Hostel Accommod.....

TRT-2026-1156

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no

Held - If current nature of supply of services is tested based on above factors, it can be ascertained that the provision of hostel accommodation could be a principal supply but ancillary services like food, gym, housekeeping, play room, cannot be said to arise naturally with the principal service of hostel accommodation and therefore are not bundled naturally with principal supply.

In view of the above, we find that, the ancillary servi.....

TRT-2026-1644

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no

Held - It is also evident that although the services are offered in a bundle, they are not indivisible, and different considerations are paid for different packages of such services offered to the recipients, depending upon their requirement for lodging facility. For example, laundry service is not offered to the day boarders. These are not, therefore, bundles of taxable supplies that are inseparable and supplied o.....

TRT-2026-867

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no

Held - In the present case what immediately comes to mind is that all the products are equally important for the printing to happen. It is not that the printing can take place with only Ink and that the other products are not necessary. One of the major ingredients of a composite supply is that, one of the supplies is a ‘principal supply’ and the others are subservient or incidental to it. The example given in the CGST Act is that of suppl.....

TRT-2026-361

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no

Held - There is no dispute that the Agency contract in question involves two taxable supplies of services i.e promotion and marketing service and after-sales support service. However in order for the supply to be termed as a ‘composite supply’, what is required is that the supply of the said services should at least be bundled, more specifically be ‘naturally bundled’, and supplied in conjugation with each other. The term ‘naturally .....