GST Implication on Housing Society or Residential Welfare Association (RWA)
INTRODUCTION:- Co-operative Housing Societies are entities registered under the co-operative laws of the respective States. According to Section 2(16) of the Maharashtra Co-operative Society Act, 1960, “housing society” means a society, the object of which is to provide its members with open plots for housing, dwelling houses or flats OR if open plots, the dwelling houses or flats are already acquired, to provide its members common amenities and services. In other words these are a collective body of persons, who stay in a residential society as a collective body, they would be supplying certain services to its members, be it collecting statutory dues from its members and remitting to statutory authorities, maintenance of the building, security etc. HOUSING SOCIETY IS A DIFFERENT PERSON?:- The definition of "Person" in Section 2(84)(i) of the CGST Act, 2017 specifically includes a co-operative society registered under any law relating to co-operative societies. Thus a r