No GST on salary paid to expats working in Indian project office of foreign companies: AAR (Maharashtra)

Maharashtra’s Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) has said that salary paid to expats employed in a project office (PO) based in India will not attract GST. Germany-based Hitachi Power Europe GmBH, which has a PO in India for supply of goods and supervisory services to NTPC, Meja Urja and Damodar Valley Corporation etc, employs a number of expats. Since most of these employees have their primary ban…