Street furniture installation services, such as bus shelter installation and fitting benches or railings, are treated as civil engineering or works contract services under GST. Earlier, different ways of combining supply and installation sometimes led to different effective tax outcomes for similar projects, which made quotations and tax planning harder for contractors and municipal bodies.
After the September 2025 rationalisation, most street furniture installation services under SAC 995443 generally fall in the 18 percent slab with
input tax credit
. This standard rate applies where the contractor supplies and installs units as a works contract, unless a specific notification grants concessional treatment for a particular government or social sector scheme.
The table below shows the latest standard GST rate for SAC code 995443.