Updates under RBI as on 21st June 2019.

Rationalisation and Revision of Agency Commission Payable to Banks on Government Transactions

The agency commission rates on eligible government transactions to be carried out with effect from July 01, 2019 shall be as under:

Reference is drawn to the instructions contained in letter dated November 4, 2016 advising the process of claiming reimbursement of service tax on agency commission received for Central and State Government transactions, based on which banks are submitting claims for reimbursement centrally to Reserve Bank of India at Central Accounts Section, Nagpur. The same process continued after ST got subsumed into the GST framework.
A review of this claim process has been done internally after observing significant delays and discrepancies in the claims submission by agency banks. Based on this review and also taking into consideration the references received from agency banks in this regard, it has been decided to replace the current process of centralised claims submission with a system whereby applicable GST (18% at present) shall be paid along with agency commission by the respective Regional Offices of RBI / CAS, Nagpur as the case may be.
For eligible government transactions done with effect from July 01, 2019, agency banks shall submit the agency commission claims, including applicable GST amount, as per revised agency commission rates indicated above, to RBI at respective ROs / CAS, Nagpur as per the extant instructions issued by RBI in this regard. TDS on GST shall be deducted as applicable by RBI at the time of making agency commission payment.
However, for eligible government transactions done by agency banks upto June 30, 2019, agency banks shall continue to submit agency commission claims as well as the claims for ST/GST reimbursement as hitherto.
The revised rates will remain valid till the next review.