Tag: Gst

Chennai: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that the GST Council will take the final call on reducing the tax rate on motor vehicles. Speaking to reporters here, she said that the government is addressing the issues of the automotive segment on the backdrop of the recent slowdown in sales. “One of the suggestion […]

Bengaluru: The GST Network on Saturday decided to make Aadhaar authentication or physical verification mandatory for new dealers from January 2020 to check malpractices in Goods and Services Tax. “Aadhaar authentication of new registered dealers will be mandatory. Earlier it was optional. But we have noticed in two years that large number of fly-by-night operators […]

Panaji: The all-powerful GST Council on Friday more than doubled the tax on caffeinated beverages to 40 per cent and slashed the rate on hotel room tariffs. Briefing reporters after a meeting of the panel, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the GST on caffeinated beverages has been hiked to 28 per cent plus additional cess […]

New Delhi: The new Goods and Services Tax (GST) returns from April 2020 that mandate providing more details may require companies to amend their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Tax experts and chartered accountants (CAs) said that the new return systems would require a lot of details such as purchases from unregistered dealers. “Besides, bill […]

New Delhi: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections came in at Rs 95,380 crore in October, down 5.29 per cent from Rs 1,00,710 crore in the same month last year, as per government data released on Friday. This is the third consecutive month when GST mop-up remained below the Rs 1 lakh crore mark, […]

New Delhi: In a relief to taxpayers, the government on Thursday extended the due dates for filing GST annual returns for 2017-18 to December 31 and for the financial year 2018-19, to March 31 next year. The dates for filing the reconciliation statement has also been extended accordingly. In another relief, it has also decided […]

New Delhi: The government is set to crack the whip on GST non-filers with plans afoot to cancel the registration of repeat offenders. Amid lower-than-expected GST collection in the past few months of the current fiscal, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has directed zonal offices to go tough on non-filers. Accordingly, […]

New Delhi: Festive season demand helped the government collect Rs 1.03 lakh crore in goods and services tax (GST) in the month of November, up 6 per cent over the same month last year. The positive growth, a possible sign of recovery, has come after two months of negative growth. During the month of November, […]

New Delhi: With states not being paid compensation for loss of revenue from implementation of GST since August, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday assured the Centre will honour its commitment but did not say by when the dues will be cleared. States that surrendered powers to collect taxes on goods and services after local […]

New Delhi: The government may bring certain healthcare services under the GST net, touching upon a sensitive area, as it looks to give a leg up to revenue mobilisation hit hard in the ongoing economic slowdown. Official sources said the Finance Ministry, which had deliberations with the state governments on measures to boost GST revenue, is […]

Mumbai: Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday assured states that the Centre will not “renege” on the promise of GST compensations. The delays to pass on the money are due to a slip in collections and the states have nothing to be embarrassed about, she said. The remarks come at a time when states […]

New Delhi: Facing heat over delay in payment of GST compensation, the central government on Monday released Rs 35,298 crore to states to make up for the loss of revenue due to rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). When GST was rolled out on July 1, 2017, states were through legislation promised to […]

New Delhi: Amid talks of the government likely to miss tax collection target this fiscal, the Finance Ministry has set a Rs 1.1 lakh crore monthly GST mop-up target for the remaining four months of 2019-20 financial year, ministry sources said. Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey had a video conference meeting with top tax officials […]

New Delhi: The all-powerful GST Council, in its 38th meeting here on Wednesday, voted for uniform rate of 28 per cent on lotteries across the country. During the voting, 21 states voted in favour of a uniform rate. This is the first time since the launch of the new indirect tax that the Council has […]

New Delhi: The Modi government has been defending the multi-tiered rates under GST, saying there cannot be one rate, as different segments of society have to be taxed differently. However, it has emerged that ordinary bicycles used mostly by the low-income group people attract 12 per cent GST while expensive electric bicycles are in the […]