Canteen fees: Conflicting GST rulings puzzle companies

MUMBAI: The Uttarakhand bench of the GST Authority for Advance Rulings (GSTAAR) has held that the nominal sum recovered from employees for provision of subsidised canteen facilities will be subject to goods and services tax (GST). The ruling came recently in the case of an engineering company.  The bench held that the applicant, Tube Investment of India, set up canteen facilities as…