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Goods and Services Tax : The GST Council proposes new rates for the paper sector. GST is eliminated on notebook paper, reduced on pulp, and increased on ot...
Goods and Services Tax : The GST Council has proposed reducing or removing GST on educational items. Erasers, notebooks, pencils, and maps would become tax...
Goods and Services Tax : GST rates on a variety of daily use products will be reduced from 12% and 18% to 5%. This includes household goods, personal care ...
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Goods and Services Tax : 55th GST Council meeting recommends tax reductions, exemptions, and compliance measures, including lower GST on fortified rice ker...
Goods and Services Tax : The Second National Conference of GST Enforcement Chiefs focused on addressing fake registrations and enhancing compliance through...
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Goods and Services Tax : Key GST updates: CGST amendments in Budget 2024, Circulars on officer reassignment, recovery guidelines, and service taxability cl...
Goods and Services Tax : The Madras High Court held that manufacturers of alcoholic liquor cannot be denied C-Forms for inter-State ENA purchases because t...
Goods and Services Tax : Rajasthan HC dismisses petition challenging 18% GST on samosa and kachori, directs Sodhani Sweets to approach the Appellate Author...
Goods and Services Tax : Jharkhand High Court disposes of B D Enterprises' petition against GST Input Tax Credit time limits, aligning with the 53rd GST Co...
Goods and Services Tax : Madras HC rules on GST for flavoured milk in Parle Agro case. Key verdict on classification; implications for businesses....
Goods and Services Tax : SC held that recommendations of the GST Council are not binding on the Union and States. It held that Recommendations of the GST C...
Goods and Services Tax : The Ministry of Finance has reduced the Compensation Cess rate to Nil for several items, effective September 22, 2025, per a new n...
Goods and Services Tax : The 56th GST Council Meeting will be held in New Delhi on September 3rd and 4th, 2025, with a preceding officers' meeting on Septe...
Goods and Services Tax : Office Memorandum details updated GoM composition for Restructuring Compensation Cess, led by Union Minister of State for Finance....
Goods and Services Tax : The GST Council Secretariat has updated the composition of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Life and Health Insurance, effective Ju...
Goods and Services Tax : A Group of Ministers (GoM) is set up to evaluate the feasibility of a special cess under GST for disaster relief and recommend a u...
The GST council, the key decision-making body that will take all important decisions regarding the GST, will have representation from the central government as well as all the state governments.
Where a registered person having centralised registration under the existing law has obtained a registration under this Act, such person shall be allowed to take, in his electronic credit ledger, credit of the amount of CENVAT credit carried forward in a return, furnished under the existing law by him, in respect of the period ending with the day immediately preceding the appointed day in such manner as may be prescribed.
Agenda of meeting: – The Union Minister for Finance, Shri Arun Jaitley will chair the17th Meeting of the GST Council scheduled to be held on June 18,2017 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi .Main agenda items of the 17th GST Council Meeting include
. It has been decided in respect of the service of transport of goods by a vessel that GST rate of 5% will be available with ITC in respect of input services and GST paid on ships, vessels including bulk carriers and tankers.
1. In the list of service tax exemptions to be continued in GST as approved by the GST Council, after S.No. 83, the following shall be inserted –
GST council has revised GST rate more than 66 items in its meeting held on 11th June 2017. In its meeting council has revised the rate downward on most of the items. Rates on most goods has come down from higher rate to comparatively lower rate. In some cases rate has come down from 28% to 0% also.
Goods and Service Tax Council has approved Accounts and Records Rule and related format in its meeting held on 11th June 2017. Text of the Rules is as follows :-
The all-powerful Goods & Services Tax (GST) Council in its 13th meeting held at New Delhi decided the followings:- 1. Approval to draft GST rules (5 out of 9) which were released in September 2016 duly aligned with GST law as approved by Lok Sabha on 29 March, 2017
The GST Council has in its 13th meeting held on 31.03.2017, approved nine Rules which have been put in the public domain. The same are available on the departmental website.
The prospects of rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from July 1, 2017 has been brightened further, when the all-powerful GST Council chaired by the Honble Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley met for the thirteenth time in a row to clear all gathered clouds over the GST and brightening its prospects of implementation soon.
