CBI Arrests Delhi GST Official For Accepting Rs 6 Lakh Bribe

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an Assistant Commissioner of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) department of the Delhi government while accepting a bribe of Rs 6 lakh, officials said today.

Mittal, however, also said that the recently released National Digital Communications Policy focuses on the concerns of the industry.

The high rate of GST and spectrum prices in the telecom sector go against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a digitally-empowered India, Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said today. Telecom is also among the most-taxed sectors globally, he said, addressing the inaugural session of the India Mobile Congress 2018. "I cannot see how this contradiction ca...

A businessman was arrested Tuesday by the Karnataka commercial taxes department for allegedly evading GST of Rs 42 crore by raising fake invoices of Rs 245 crore in the name of deceased and fictituous people.

A parliamentary panel headed by veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, in a draft report prepared by it, has questioned the mechanism for calculating the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and asserted that the methodology needs review to reflect the ground reality.

With a 15-20 per cent average increase in direct tax collections in recent years, government revenues are certain to grow, even as the economy becomes more formalised with Indians adopting technology in greater numbers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.

In a bid to offer better service to customers beyond its products, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) has introduced its new Honda Joy Club. The Joy Club is a digital customer loyalty programme and the first-of-its-kind for the two-wheeler industry in India. The programme is directed for both new and existing Honda two-wheeler customers, which can be availed fo...

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) should not shy away from holding the government accountable for decisions like demonetisation, GST that has caused serious economic distress, and defence purchases, PAC Chairman and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said today.

Rahul Gandhi claimed the government had destroyed the country's economy with decisions like demonetisation and GST.

The International Monetary Fund or IMF on Tuesday predicted a growth rate of 7.3 per cent for India in the current year and 7.4 per cent in 2019.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India is going through major social and economic changes and the resultant New India will prove to be a catalyst for global development.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday to bring petrol and diesel under the purview of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), saying the people were distressed over their skyrocketing prices.

The CBI has carried out searches at the Chennai residence of Additional Commissioner, GST, Senthil Valavaen in connection with the Gutkha scam, officials said Thursday.

Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday claimed that show cause notices have been issued to Fastway Transmission Pvt limited (FTPL), a multi-system operator in cable business, by the director general of GST Intelligence for allegedly evading service tax amounting to Rs 2,100 crore.