India GST calculator

How gst in India is calculated

These figures come from **Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)**, dated 17 September 2025 and in force from 22 September 2025, which superseded the 2017 rate notification. It notifies the rate of integrated tax as *"(i) 5 per cent. in respect of goods specified in Schedule I, (ii) 18 per cent. ... Schedule II, (iii) 40 per cent. ... Schedule III (iv) 3 per cent. ... Schedule IV, (v) 0.25 per cent. ... Schedule V, (vi) 1.50 per cent. ... Schedule VI, and (vii) 28 per cent. ... Schedule VII"*.

**That is seven rates, and it matters because the 2025 reform is almost universally described as leaving three.** Summaries of GST 2.0 say the slabs became nil, 5%, 18% and 40%, with 12% and 28% abolished. The notification itself keeps **28% in Schedule VII**, alongside 3%, 1.5% and 0.25% for precious metals and stones. For most groceries the popular summary is harmless; for a jeweller or a car dealer it omits the band they actually charge. This page follows the notification.

Which schedule a good falls in is decided by its **tariff heading**, not by a category you can reason about, so the options here name the schedule rather than guessing at a description. The rates shown are the **integrated** tax rates, charged on inter-state supplies. An intra-state supply carries the same total split equally between CGST and SGST — 9% and 9% rather than 18% — so the figure on the invoice is the same and this calculator is right either way. This page covers the rate schedules only.