Chandana Chandrasekhar unexpectedly made the news last year after she followed up a meeting with Rahul Gandhi when he visited her college, Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru with a letter. The visually-challenged B.Com graduate wrote to him later - and he tweeted her letter which asked for taxes to be removed from aids for the people with disabilities. She was delighted when that tax became zero in the 2016 budget. But now, with GST, an 18 per cent tax will be introduced on assistive devices for the physically challenged. She now is hoping Prime Minister Narendra Modi will help.
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Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the GST reforms, set to come into effect on September 22, will set off a "virtuous cycle" of consumption, production, investment and employment.
A reduction in GST rates will result in more than 150 categories of products getting cheaper from September 22, the company's Managing Director Manish Bandlish told NDTV.
JLR has announced a price cut of up to Rs 30.4 lakh on the Range Rover and other models under GST 2.0.
The company said it is passing "100 per cent of the tax benefit to our patrons" as new GST reform comes into effect from September 22.
Royal Enfield has announced the new prices of its 450cc and 650cc lineup under the new GST structure.
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