Sensex Ends In The Green Ahead Of GST Council Meet

Sensex edged up 32.12 points, or 0.10%, to close at 33,250.93 after trading between 33,463.80 and 33,111.54.

The association is seeking reduction of GST to 12 per cent on all hotels and bars.

Forty-two years after it broke box office records, posters of Bollywood superhit "Sholay" made an appearance in Surat, the financial capital of Gujarat. But in the election-bound state, their message was political. Carrying hashtags of #ReformGST, #SaveSurat and #SaveGujarat, the posters appeared at the venue of a rally by Rahul Gandhi.

Officials have said that items currently being taxed at 28 per cent will be looked into

Hours after former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh renewed his criticism of the NDA government's sudden ban on high value notes that he has called "organised loot", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley delivered a stinging rebuttal. Mr Jaitley said an exercise backed by "an ethical and moral rationale" was being described as loot, before going on to refer to the 2G and commonw...

If the government is to be believed, the ban on high-value currency led to a significant surge in India's tax base over the past year. To back this claim, the government has released a deluge of data. Including the claim that that there was a 25 per cent increase in tax returns in the April-August 2017 period, compared to the same period last year. That is correct, bu...

As former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was addressing traders and businessmen at an auditorium in Ahmedabad today, ripping into the Narendra Modi government's big reforms notes ban and GST, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani of the BJP launched a counter attack on Twitter in a series of questions for the Congress leader

The Congress got out its top gun on the economy on Tuesday, fielding former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in Gujarat to amplify party vice president Rahul Gandhi's attack on the Narendra Modi government's mega reforms, the notes ban and new national sales tax GST. Dr Singh said the "twin blow is a complete disaster for our economy, it has broken the back of our sma...

Some of the items should never have been in the 28% slab, said the finance minister.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said today that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) would undergo sweeping changes to provide relief to traders, consumers and other sections hit by it, after his party comes to power at the Centre in 2019.

The Congress, on Tuesday, hopes to considerably amplify boss Rahul Gandhi's running attack on the new national sales tax with a visit to Ahmedabad by former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.

After Rahul Gandhi's Gabbar Singh Tax, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said GST stands for the "Great Selfish Tax," offering social media another trending hashtag and the Narendra Modi government at the Centre criticism over its handling of the economy

The government may review the requirement of filing at least three returns every month under the GST regime with a view to easing compliance burden of taxpayers

Taking a cue from its Vice President Rahul Gandhi's description of new national tax GST, the Congress has now compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi's characteristic way of saying "Mitron" (friends) in his public speeches to a famous dialogue spoken by villain Gabbar Singh in the iconic Bollywood film Sholay.