Goods And Services Tax Slab

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  GST Had Serious Birth Defects, Worsened Over Last 5 Years: P Chidambaram

  The Congress on Friday demanded that the current Goods and Services Tax (GST) law should be scrapped and a new one with a single low slab be brought in its place, claiming the existing law has "serious birth defects".

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  GST Rates, Compensation, Top Takeaways From Council Meeting: 10 Points

  The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting ended its two-day deliberations today, where a host of issues like rate rationalisation, levying 28 per cent tax on online gaming and horse racing and the vexed issue of continuing GST compensation to states, were discussed.

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  Key Deliberations At GST Council Meet In 10 Points

  The GST Council on Tuesday approved changes in tax rates on some goods and services while allowing states to issue an e-way bill for intra-state movement of gold and precious stones, officials said. It was the first day of the two-day meeting of the GST Council which is headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and is going on in Chandigarh.

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  High Inflation May Defer GST Rate Change: Report

  The goods and services tax (GST) rate rationalisation is likely to be delayed due to elevated inflation

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  GST Council May Consider Raising Lowest Slab To 8%, Rationalise Structure

  GST council may look at raising the lowest tax slab to 8 per cent, from 5 per cent and prune the exemption list in the regime

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  Goods And Service Tax Regime Completes 3 Years

  GST was unveiled on July 1, 2017 at a glittering ceremony held in the Central Hall of Parliament on the midnight of June 30, 2017.

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  #HandsOffPorotta Trends As Debate On Roti vs Parotta GST Slabs Heats Up

  The government's move to put parotta on a higher bracket than roti under the goods and services tax or GST has angered people on social media, who pointed out that both are similarly prepared flat breads and a staple of most Indian meals.

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  Budget Needs To Move Educational Services To 0% GST Slab: Kara Learning

  Educational services provider have called upon the Finance Minister to move educational services to 0 per cent goods and services tax (GST) slab from currently under the 'exempt' category of GST,

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  Traders Body Releases White Paper On GST, Asks For Lower Rates

  The body also suggested a review of items placed under different tax slabs under Goods and Services Tax (GST) as many of them are overlapping

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  Election 2019: Rahul Gandhi Says Committed To GST 2.0 - Single Tax, Simple Filing

  Congress president Rahul Gandhi Thursday said if voted to power, his party was committed to simplifying the Goods and Services Tax (GST) by introducing a single tax slab and reducing the number of tax filings from 12 to four in a financial year.

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  GST Roadmap To Be To Work Towards A Single Rate Between 12%, 18%: Arun Jaitley

  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the country should look towards having GST slabs of zero, five per cent and a standard rate for luxury and sin goods. The government will also look at transferring cement into a lower tax slab as the next priority, Mr Jaitley added.

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  32-Inch TVs, Movie Tickets Get Cheaper; 7 Items Moved From 28% GST Rate

  The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Saturday removed seven items from the 28 per cent tax bracket. While six items, such as monitors and TVs up to 32 inches, digital cameras and video game consoles, were shifted from the tax slab of 28 per cent to 18 per cent, one - parts and accessories for carriages for people with disabilities - was move...

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  GST Single Slab Idea "Stupid"? Congress, BJP's Topic Of Twitter Debate

  An intense debate raged between senior BJP and Congress leaders after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley shot down Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's idea of a single-slab Goods and Services Tax (GST) as "stupid".

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  Now PM Using Congress's "Grand Stupid Thought": Rahul Gandhi's Dig On GST

  After two days of insisting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is asleep, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today claimed his party has managed to wake him up over the Goods and Services tax. Mr Gandhi, who once dubbed the government's flagship one tax regime "Gabbar Singh Tax" after the famous villain in Bollywood blockbuster Sholay, hit back with the Pr...

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  "If Elected, We Will Give You GST, Not Gabbar Singh Tax": Rahul Gandhi

  Congress President Rahul Gandhi today slammed the Goods and Services Tax as "Gabbar Singh Tax" and said that one slab GST would be implemented when the "Congress party-Government" comes to power at the Centre.