GST · Service codes
SAC code finder
Every service supplied under GST has a Services Accounting Code. Whether your invoice has to print it depends on your turnover. Describe the work and Invoise finds the code in the official GST service classification.
Reading one code
Each rung is read against the one above it. Chapter 99 says the supply is a service. The pairs after it narrow that to one.
Definition
What a SAC code is
SAC stands for Services Accounting Code. GST classifies every supply. Goods take an HSN code and services take a SAC code.
The code sits on the tax invoice beside the line it describes. It decides which GST rate applies. It feeds the HSN summary filed with your GSTR-1 return. It tells anyone reading the invoice later what was supplied.
Service codes all live in one chapter, 99, and read from the outside in. The first two digits say the supply is a service. The next two name the family. The last two name the service itself. The decoder above reads one out.
Comparison
SAC or HSN?
One invoice can carry both. The question is asked line by line, not business by business.
Goods · HSN
Harmonised System of Nomenclature
Codes for things you sell, ship or hand over. They span the whole tariff, from live animals to machinery. The dataset Invoise imports holds 21,935 of them.
Services · SAC
You’re on this oneServices Accounting Code
Codes for work: design, consulting, development, repair, transport, tuition. All of them begin 99. The same dataset holds 681.
If a line bills for work rather than for an object, that line takes a SAC code. A studio that designs a brand and also sells printed guidelines carries one of each. The goods half is the HSN code finder.
On the invoice
Who needs one, and how many digits
Any GST-registered business raising a tax invoice for a service. How many digits it carries depends on your aggregate turnover in the previous financial year.
For a freelancer, consultant, designer or small studio, that is every invoice. The same code carries into the HSN summary when you file the return.
The rule is Notification 78/2020 – Central Tax, in force from 1 April 2021.
Inside Invoise
You shouldn’t have to look it up twice
This page searches one dataset. The invoice editor searches the same one, with the official rate table beside it. Describe a line and it arrives classified, priced and split.
The code, without the search
Describe the line the way you would say it aloud and the code arrives with it. It comes from the same reviewed matches and fixed rules this page's lookup uses, so the same words always give the same code.
On the line
SAC 998314
The rate, cited to its notification
The GST rate is matched to the invoice’s own date, and the notification it is read from is named on the document. An old invoice keeps the rate that was in force when it was raised.
Read against
The rate table in force on the invoice’s date
The tax split, worked out
Bill inside your own state and one rate prints as two components. Bill another state and it prints as a single integrated tax line. Invoise reads the split off your registration and your client’s, so you never type it.
Same state
CGST + SGST, each half the rate
The classification is not guessed. The editor searches this same dataset and applies the same fixed rules. The rate comes from the official table Invoise imports, never from a model.
Chapter 99
Where services sit
Every service code extends one of these headings. Find the family first, then search above for the exact code.
- 9954
- Construction services
- 9961
- Services in wholesale trade
- 9962
- Services in retail trade
- 9963
- Accommodation, food and beverage services
- 9964
- Passenger transport services
- 9965
- Goods Transport Services
- 9966
- Rental services of transport vehicles with operators
- 9967
- Supporting services in transport
- 9968
- Postal and courier services
- 9969
- Electricity, gas, water and other distribution services
- 9971
- Financial and related services
- 9972
- Real estate services
- 9973
- Leasing or rental services without operator
- 9981
- Research and development services
- 9982
- Legal and accounting services
- 9983
- Other professional, technical and business services
- 9984
- Telecommunications, broadcasting and information supply services
- 9985
- Support services
- 9986
- Support services to agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing, mining and utilities
- 9987
- Maintenance, repair and installation (except construction) services
- 9988
- Manufacturing services on physical inputs (goods) owned by others
- 9989
- Other manufacturing services; publishing, printing and reproduction services; materials recovery services
- 9991
- Public administration and other services provided to the community as a whole; compulsory social security services
- 9992
- Education services
- 9993
- Human health and social care services
- 9994
- Sewage and waste collection, treatment and disposal and other environmental protection services
- 9995
- Services of membership organisations
- 9996
- Recreational, cultural and sporting services
- 9997
- Other services
- 9998
- Domestic services
- 9999
- Services provided by extraterritorial organisations and bodies
Headings only. The search above returns the six-digit codes beneath them, drawn from the official GST classification at services.gst.gov.in.
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