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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Insurance premiums set to go up under GST regime -Mayur Shetty

Insurance premiums set to go up under GST regime -Mayur Shetty

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published Published on May 21, 2017   modified Modified on May 21, 2017
-The Times of India

MUMBAI: For the middle class, an immediate impact of GST would be the higher premium outgo due to the increase in rate of tax on insurance following implementation of the Goods and Services Tax. For families that own a car and pay for health and term insurance the increase in annual outgo would be close to Rs 1,000.

"The immediate impact will be an increase in the tax from 15% to 18% which will have to be borne by customers," said Tapan Singhel, MD, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance. He added that going forward companies will work out if there is any positive impact of tax credit. If there is a positive impact this will result in the premium coming down while the tax rate will remain.

However, for non-life companies the issue is getting advantage of input tax credit. Under the service tax regime insurance has been among the list of businesses for which input tax credit is not available. As it stands, the GST regime continues to exempt insurance from benefits of input tax credit.

"The government has continued with the existing exemptions under the GST regime. When there are exemptions the entire value chain of credit gets lost," Gopal Balachandran, chief financial officer, ICICI Lombard. As a result the incidence of higher tax will fall on the customer.

Life insurers say that input tax credit advantage will vary according to the level of maturity of a company and the benefits can be calculated only after a period of time.

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The Times of India, 21 May, 2017, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/insurance-premiums-set-to-go-up-under-gst-regime/articleshow/58769785.cms


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