Reduced GST Rates On Covid Medicines Extended Till Dec 31: Nirmala Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday announced that the GST Council decided to extend the concessional rates on drugs used in COVID-19 treatment till December 31, 2020.

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.

45th GST Council Meet 2021: Bringing petrol and diesel under the ambit of indirect tax, GST compensation shortfall to states are some of the issues that could be discussed by the Council

45th GST Council Meeting 2021: Some industry leaders and analysts seek the rationalisation of the inverted duty structure IDS refund from the GST Council meet

GST Council might consider taxing petrol, diesel and other petroleum products under the single national GST regime.

Jio Fiber has quietly added quarterly plans to its postpaid broadband portfolio that earlier only had semi-annual and annual plans. The new Jio Fiber postpaid plans start from Rs. 2,097 and go up to Rs. 25,597 (excluding GST).

Taking on Infosys over glitches in the GST and Income Tax portals developed by it, RSS-associated Panchjanya wondered if any "anti-national power is trying to hurt India's economic interests through it".

The investigation took its origin from interception of goods vehicle supported by documents issued in the name of non-existing and fake firms.

The estimated total cost of civil and construction work on Ganga Expressway project is Rs 36,230 crore, and Rs 19,754 crore will be spent on civil works. There is also GST of Rs 2,371 crore on this.

Industrialist Harsh Goenka took to Twitter to ask about taxation on different shapes of Papad. An Indian tax body clarified the issue.

In August government settled Rs 23,043 crore to CGST and Rs 19,139 crore to SGST from IGST as regular settlement.

Papad, whatever its shape or name, is exempted from GST, the government's indirect taxation agency clarified today after a social media post claimed that a round papad is exempted from the tax while a square variant attracts it.

Government has extended the last date for availing the GST amnesty scheme till November 30.

Amid fall in state revenue and GST collection in view of COVID-19 crisis, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai on Thursday demanded the Centre to extend the GST compensation period to states beyond 2022, for three more years.