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Rule 8 of the IGST Rules, 2017

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At a glance

Entitlement and conditions

  • 8The covered services include property-related expert services, accommodation, rights to use property and construction coordination. Either supplier or recipient must be outside India, and the services must span multiple territories without agreed separate values.

Procedure, powers and definitions

  • 8Territorial proportions are determined by applying rule 4 with necessary changes.
  • 8The law does not settle the corresponding changes needed when applying the imported rule while preserving this rule’s express scope.

Rule 8 allocates specified immovable-property services across States or Union territories where either the supplier or recipient is outside India. It applies when the services span more than one territory and no agreement separately determines territorial values. The rule imports the allocation provisions of rule 4 with necessary changes, while retaining its own stated scope for the services and parties.[1]

Text

The text below is the rule as served by the CBIC tax information portal on 17 September 2026, with the portal's own amendment footnote markers (shown as small numerals before a bracket) and its footnotes.[1] The Rules as published in the Gazette of India is the legal source.

Rule 8, verbatim (show)

1[Rule 8. The proportion of value attributable to different States or Union territories, under subsection (7) of section 13 of the said Act, in the case of supply of services directly in relation to an immovable property, including services supplied in this regard by experts and estate agents, supply of accommodation by a hotel, inn, guest house, club or campsite, by whatever name called, grant of rights to use immovable property, services for carrying out or co-ordination of construction work, including that of architects or interior decorators, where the location of the supplier of services or the location of the recipient of services is outside India, and where such services are supplied in more than one State or Union territory, in the absence of any contract or agreement between the supplier of service and recipient of services for separately collecting or determining the value of the services in each such State or Union territory, as the case maybe, shall be determined by applying the provisions of rule 4, mutatis mutandis.]

1. Inserted (w.e.f. 01.01.2019) by Notification No 04/2018 Integrated Tax dated 31.12.2018.

Questions to answer on the file

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Express cross-border scope 8

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Proposed corresponding changes to imported allocation rule 8

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Amendment history

The CBIC text carries 1 footnote. The table gives each in the source's own terms. Effective dates are as the footnotes state them.[1]

Amendments to Rule 8 as footnoted in the CBIC text
NoteChange
1Inserted (w.e.f. 01.01.2019) by Notification No 04/2018 Integrated Tax dated 31.12.2018.
Provisions connected to Rule 8
ProvisionConnectionWords that tie them
Section 13 of the IGST Act, 2017this provision refers to Section 13 of the IGST Act, 2017subsection (7) of section 13
Rule 4this provision applies Rule 4provisions of rule 4, mutatis mutandis

Circulars and notifications

No circular or notification in the CBIC repository is recorded as citing this rule.

Unsettled questions

The words of Rule 8 do not answer this question. Where one decides a matter on the file, the answer depends on the position taken on it.

  1. What corresponding changes are needed when IGST Rule 4 or Rule 5 is applied mutatis mutandis under Rule 8 or Rule 9, preserving the importing rule’s express scope?

See also

References

  1. Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs. "Rule 8. Cross-border immovable-property allocation". Integrated Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, CBIC tax information portal, with amendment footnotes 1 to 1. Retrieved 17 September 2026.

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