GST on International Air tickets issued in India?
#16
Join Date: Sep 2005
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#17
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: PNQ
Posts: 140
Did you mean a FRA-DEL-FRA itinerary?
An itinerary originating overseas should not have an Indian GST component.
Last year I purchased an IAD-BOM-IAD ticket with the outbound on UA and the return on LH, from an Indian travel agent with the point of sale in India and billed in INR and there was no GST.
Pulling up a couple of fares on Matrix also seems to indicate that flights originating from overseas, even if they have a domestic leg, don't include GST, even with an India point of sale.
On the other hand, a BA ticket I was exploring, ex BOM (to the US), US point of sale, billed in USD, did have GST.
This is consistent with my (limited) understanding of how it is supposed to work.
As a suffering ex India traveler, the icing on the cake is that the GST is calculated on the fare + YQ/YR
An itinerary originating overseas should not have an Indian GST component.
Last year I purchased an IAD-BOM-IAD ticket with the outbound on UA and the return on LH, from an Indian travel agent with the point of sale in India and billed in INR and there was no GST.
Pulling up a couple of fares on Matrix also seems to indicate that flights originating from overseas, even if they have a domestic leg, don't include GST, even with an India point of sale.
On the other hand, a BA ticket I was exploring, ex BOM (to the US), US point of sale, billed in USD, did have GST.
This is consistent with my (limited) understanding of how it is supposed to work.
As a suffering ex India traveler, the icing on the cake is that the GST is calculated on the fare + YQ/YR
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#21
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: PNQ
Posts: 140
As SuperFlyBoy has pointed out above, the USA charges passenger taxes even for arrivals so I won't be surprised if the GoI also follows suit.