GST Has Brought Growth, Simplicity, Furthering Ease Of Doing Business: PM

On the first anniversary of the GST regime, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hailed the tax as a tool that has brought growth, simplicity and transparency.

On the completion of one year of the rolling out of the GST plan, the government is to celebrate GST Day today at the Ambedkar International Centre to mark the first anniversary of the launch of the new indirect taxation regime. Terming GST as a "fitting tribute to spirit of cooperative federalism", the Finance Ministry said the first year has been remarkable both for...

Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that a telephone helpline number will be started soon, where consumers can report against those traders who evade tax by not issuing purchase bill.

As the Goods and Services Tax (GST) roll-out completes one year on July 1, the Congress on Saturday described it as a "Grossly Scary Tax" and said the promise of a "single tax GST" still remains a pipe dream.

The knitwear capital of India, Tirupur, is facing a crisis with a decline in exports and job losses. Five lakh small and micro industries have been shut down in Tamil Nadu. The city's exports have dwindled from Rs 26,000 crore to Rs 24,000 crore. Apparel exports were already struggling against low-priced goods from China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and C...

To sustain the high growth rate India has achieved, the country should carry out banking sector reforms; continue with fiscal consolidation, simplify and streamline GST; and renew impetus on reforms, the International Monetary Fund or IMF said today.

The Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog, Rajiv Kumar says it's impractical to bring petroleum products under GST right now, owing to the state and center's high dependency on taxes that come from petrol and diesel .

Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram today slammed the government for terming the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as a "celebration of honesty", saying if that was the case, why did the BJP oppose it for five years prior to coming to power in 2014.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his 45th edition of Mann Ki Baat hailed states for the success of Goods and Services Tax or GST. Describing GST as "a celebration of honesty", the Prime Minister said, "One nation, one tax reform is now a reality...for this I give maximum credit to the states. GST has set a fine example of cooperative federalism and states unitedly cont...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on Sunday in the 45th edition of his radio programme Mann Ki Baat.

The Directorate General of GST (Goods and Services Tax) Intelligence (DGGI) has detected Rs 672.51 crore worth of tax evasion in 46 cases, in which Rs 15.31 crore were recovered in 20 cases from July 2017 to March 2018, an official said.

Despite an adverse impact of GST implementation, India saw a 20 per cent increase in both the number of dollar millionaires and their wealth in 2017, to emerge as the fastest growing market for high net worth population.

Everyday, when Krishna Kumar serves lunch to his customers along with his wife at the small restaurant he owns in Coimbatore, he says he is reminded of the misfortune that hit him.

National passenger carrier Air India announced it has revised the applicable Excess Baggage Rate (EBR) on domestic sectors effective Monday.