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Split a restaurant bill with 5% or 18% GST, an optional service charge and a tip, equally or by what each person ate.
An Indian restaurant bill is built in a fixed order: food subtotal, then any service charge, then GST on the two together, then a tip that carries no tax. This calculator follows that order, applies 5% GST for a standalone restaurant or 18% where the restaurant sits inside a hotel with a declared room tariff above Rs 7,500 a day, keeps alcohol separate because it falls outside GST and attracts state excise or VAT instead, and then splits the total either equally or in proportion to what each person ordered.
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GST is applied to the food plus service charge, and the tip stays outside the tax.
Drinks are taxed under state VAT or excise rather than GST, as on a real bill.
Optional rounding to the nearest Rs 1, 5 or 10 with the surplus shown, not hidden.
5% without input tax credit for standalone restaurants, split as 2.5% CGST and 2.5% SGST. Restaurants located inside a hotel where any unit of accommodation has a declared tariff above Rs 7,500 per day charge 18% with input tax credit. The rates come from Notification 11/2017-Central Tax (Rate) as amended by Notification 46/2017.
No. The Central Consumer Protection Authority's guidelines dated 4 July 2022 state that no hotel or restaurant shall add a service charge automatically or by default to the bill, and it cannot be collected under another name. A customer can ask for it to be removed, and a complaint can be filed with the National Consumer Helpline on 1915. The matter has been litigated, so check the current position if a restaurant disputes it.
Yes, if the service charge appears on the bill. Under section 15 of the CGST Act, 2017 the value of a supply includes amounts the supplier charges, so a service charge forms part of the value that GST is levied on. On a Rs 2,000 food bill with a 10% service charge, GST at 5% is charged on Rs 2,200, giving Rs 110 rather than Rs 100.
Custom is to tip on the pre-tax food value, since the tip is a voluntary payment to staff and not part of the restaurant's charge. Around 10% of the food bill is typical where no service charge has been paid, and many people skip the tip entirely when a service charge has already been added. A tip is not taxable to the customer either way.
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