I Sell on Amazon & Flipkart, Turnover Only ₹8 Lakh — Do I Still Need GST Registration?
GSTZone Desk · Updated 2026
Short answer
Yes — turnover has no bearing on this at all. Selling goods through Amazon or Flipkart (or any e-commerce operator) requires GST registration from your very first rupee of sale, regardless of how small your total turnover is.
In detail
It’s a completely understandable assumption that ₹8 lakh, sitting well below both the ₹20 lakh and ₹40 lakh general thresholds, should mean no registration needed yet. But that assumption applies to a regular offline or own-website business — not to goods sold through a marketplace.
As covered at the start of this series, Section 24 of the CGST Act pulls anyone supplying goods through an e-commerce operator into COMPULSORY registration, specifically overriding the normal turnover-based exemption. This isn’t a higher threshold for marketplace sellers — it’s the complete removal of any threshold for this specific category.
The reasoning connects to how the marketplace’s TCS (tax collected at source) mechanism works — it needs every seller to have a GSTIN for that TCS credit to be properly attributed, regardless of the seller’s size.
GSTZone tip
Don’t let a small, early-stage turnover create a false sense of safety if you’re already listing goods on a marketplace — this is one of the more commonly and expensively missed compliance points for small sellers just starting out on Amazon or Flipkart.
Related questions
Is there really no small-seller relief at all for marketplace goods sellers?+
There’s a narrow 2023 scheme for sellers doing purely intra-state sales through an e-commerce operator, letting them use an Enrolment ID instead of full registration — but most marketplace fulfilment models don’t fit this narrow condition.
What if I’m just testing the marketplace with a few sample listings?+
The legal requirement doesn’t scale with intent or volume — even a genuinely small test listing that results in a sale still falls under this compulsory registration requirement.
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