Preventive maintenance services for buildings and installed systems are treated as repair and maintenance or works contract services under GST. Earlier, different ways of billing comprehensive and non comprehensive maintenance contracts sometimes produced different effective tax outcomes for similar services, which made it difficult to compare and plan costs.
After the September 2025 changes, most preventive maintenance services under SAC 995469 generally come under the 18% slab with
input tax credit
. This standard rate applies to scheduled inspection and servicing contracts unless a specific notification grants concessional treatment for a particular public or social sector scheme.
The table below summarises the present GST rate for services under SAC code 995469.