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GST Council eyes real estate, electricity, and petroleum to boost revenues
15 Dec 2017
With Rs39,000-crore shortfall in states’ revenues in the four months since the roll-out of the new indirect tax regime, the GST Council is looking to expand the GST base by including real estate, electricity and petroleum products under GST

Jaitley says priority is strengthening banks’ capacity to lend
15 Dec 2017
The imperative need now is to complete the task of strengthening the banks through capitalisation to enable them to lend to the MSME sector and trade that is now moving into the formal economy, union minister of finance and corporate affairs Arun Jaitley said

GST core slabs may merge, 28% slab to remain
21 Nov 2017
The government could combine the 12 per cent and 18 per cent slabs under the GST into one in the near future, possibly keeping the core rate around 15.5 per cent as suggested by chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian last year
GST collections at Rs 95,131 crore in October
20 Nov 2017

Cabinet clears setting up of GST anti-profiteering authority
17 Nov 2017
The approval by the cabinet paves the way for immediate establishment of an apex 'anti-profiteering’ body that will provide an institutional mechanism to ensure that the full benefits of input tax credits and reduced GST rates are passed on to the consumers
Govt looks to PSUs as revenues falter under GST
14 Nov 2017
GST: The pruned list
11 Nov 2017

GST Council trims items in the top 28% tax slab to 50
10 Nov 2017
The GST Council pruned the list of items attracting the top 28 per cent tax rate from 227 to just 50 even as it made eating out cheaper, fixing rate for restaurants and hotels that do not claim tax credit at a flat 5 per cent
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