Restaurant Service Tax

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  Restaurant Bodies Fined Rs 2 Lakh For Challenging Service Tax Ban

  Delhi High Court has imposed total costs of Rs 2 lakh on two restaurant bodies for failing to comply with an order passed in relation to their challenge to the guidelines prohibiting hotels and restaurants from automatically levying service charge.

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  GST Has Made Eating In Restaurants Cheaper, Claims Indian Govt

  The Press Information Bureau of India analysed the savings on a restaurant bill in the pre and post-GST era.

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  Delhi High Court Stays Guidelines Prohibiting Hotels Charging Service Tax

  The Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed the recent guidelines prohibiting hotels and restaurants from levying service charge automatically on food bills.

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  Government Open To Consider Restaurant Owners' Demand For Higher GST Levy

  Government is open to considering the restaurant industry's demand of shifting back to higher GST along with benefit of tax credit on their inputs

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  Swiggy, Zomato To Pay 5% GST From Today Amid New Norms

  Currently, restaurants registered under GST are collecting and depositing the tax. Also, cab aggregators like Uber and Ola will have to collect five per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) for booking two and three-wheeler vehicles effective January 1.

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  Food Ordering via Swiggy, Zomato May Become Costlier Due to New GST Norms Taking Effect on Jan 1

  Food ordering from platforms including Swiggy and Zomato may become costlier soon as a new tax rule is coming into force starting January 1. Under the rule, food aggregators will be required to collect a five percent Goods and Services Tax (GST) from restaurants for their food items.

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  Swiggy, Zomato Impacted By New GST Rules. But Customers Won't Pay More

  Food delivery apps like Zomato and Swiggy must pay GST, or Goods and Services Tax, instead of the restaurant they pick up orders from, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Friday after a meeting of the GST Council in Lucknow.

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  GST Council's Decision On Food Delivery Apps Such As Swiggy, Zomato Likely

  The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council may discuss on a proposal to treat online food delivery platforms like Swiggy and Zomato as restaurants and levy 5% of GST on their supplies.

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  18% GST On Frozen Parottas: Government Sources Explain Why

  The ordinary or any parotta served by restaurant for eating there or for takeaway would be taxed at a GST rate of 5 per cent just like the plain roti, government sources said a day after social media users debated the government's move to put frozen parotta on a higher bracket than roti under the goods and services tax or GST.

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  37% Of Consumers Do Not Pay Service Charge At Restaurants, Says Survey

  The Ministry of Consumer Affairs had called it an unethical business practice and directed restaurants to remove the service charge component from bills.

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  Eating Out Cheaper After GST Cut? Restaurateurs Have A Plan: 10 Points

  Eating out has become cheaper after the GST Council Meeting led by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley revised the rates of the new national tax yesterday. The GST rate charged by restaurants has been cut to a uniform 5 per cent now -- from the earlier 12 per cent or 18 per cent, depending on whether you ate at an air-conditioned place or a restaurant wi...

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  GST Rates: Shampoo, Chocolate, Eating Out Cheaper After Big GST Cut - 10 Facts

  Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday announced a big overhaul of new national tax GST, saying only 50 items will remain in the highest tax slab of 28 per cent, with 178 others moved to the 18 per cent bracket effective November 15. Dining out will also become cheaper, with food at all restaurants in the country, except those in starred hot...

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  200 Items May Get Cheaper, GST Council Set To Announce Big Tax Cut Today

  At the GST Council meet today, over 200 items may get cheaper from handmade furniture to shampoo to sanitary ware to plywood

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  Hotel, Restaurant Owners Meet GST Council Over Tax Rates

  The association is seeking reduction of GST to 12 per cent on all hotels and bars.

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  Ministers Suggest GST Cut For Air-Conditioned Restaurants, Manufacturers

  The Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to make GST composition scheme more attractive today suggested lowering tax rates for manufacturers and restaurants under the plan to 1 per cent.