The GST Council, led by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, has exempted services provided by Indian Railways and certain student hostels from GST. This includes railway tickets, waiting room fees, and intra-railway services. Additionally, hostels for students outside educational institutions with a charge limit of Rs 20,000 per month are also exempt, provided the stay is at least 90 days.
GST collections in May 2024 reached Rs 1.73 lakh crore, marking a 10% year-on-year growth. This increase is attributed to a surge in domestic transactions and reduced import activity.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday caught the Goods and Services Tax (GST) superintendent red-handed while accepting bribe from a contractor in Sundargarh district’s Rourkela.
The chairman of Evos Buildcon Pvt Limited is Kalinga Keshari Rath, who is said to be in the good books of several leaders, including a BJD leader.
Out of the Rs 1,62,712 crore GST collections for September, CGST was Rs 29,818 crore, SGST was Rs 37,657 crore, IGST was Rs 83,623 crore (including Rs 41,145 crore collected on import of goods) and cess was Rs 11,613 crore (including Rs 881 crore collected on import of goods).
A team from Bolangir Police Station today carried out raids at the house of Gopal Biswal, a staff who works at the shop that was reportedly selling duplicate jeans of branded companies, and seized a packaging machine and stickers of reputed companies.
These gamers have been playing online games as a passion and also to earn extra money to support their living.
Out of Rs 1,65,105 crore GST collections for July, CGST was Rs 29,773 crore, SGST was Rs 37,623 crore, IGST was Rs 85,930 crore (including Rs 41,239 crore collected on import of goods) and cess stood at Rs 11,779 crore (including Rs 840 crore collected on import of goods).
As per Finance Ministry data, in 2020-21, as many as 12,596 cases of GST evasion were detected, while in 2022-23, the cases rose by 23.5 per cent to 15,562.
Addressing a press conference after the marathon eight-hours-long meeting, Sitharaman said that tax exemption has also been extended to satellite launch services provided by private parties.
This will give more power to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the anti-money laundering agency, to act against tax evasion within GSTN.
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The gross GST collection in April 2023 is also an all-time high and is Rs 19,495 crore more than the previous highest collection of Rs 1,67,540 lakh crore, which was recorded in April 2022.
The raids were conducted simultaneously at five places including their residence at Ghantapada and two business entities - Maa Hingula Transport and Maa Hingula Traders.
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