Whether hostel accommodation provided by Trusts is exempted from GST ?
TRT-2026-637

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes

Held - The Applicant is exclusively providing the Hostel Accommodation Service in isolation and no other service is clubbed or bundled along with the Hostel Accommodation Service. Thus, there is no question of Composite Supply u/s 2 (30) of the GST Act or Mixed Supply u/s 2(74) of the GST Act in the Case of the Applicant.

Therefore, considering the provisions of Entry No. 14 of the Notification No. 12/2017-CT (R) Dated 28.06.2017 and cla.....

TRT-2026-636

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes

Held - All the facilities are only for the occupants of the hostels. The girls residing there are neither allowed to have food from outside nor are outsiders allowed to have food from hostel canteen. Thus the accommodation facility at hostel is the only principal supply and all the other facilities are inter-related as they are provided exclusively to the occupants of hostel only.

The activity of providing accommodation services by the a.....

TRT-2026-638

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no

Held - From the Notification Entry no. 1 and the meaning assigned to the expression’ charitable activities’, it is found that activities of the Trust in providing hostel accommodation facilities to the students who come to Pune for education do not fall within the ambit of charitable activities.

This is in conformity with the clarification issued by the Tax Research Unit vide Circular No. 32/06/2018-GST dated 12th February 2018. .....