The GST Council will discuss the future of the compensation cess on luxury and demerit goods collected to repay loans taken by the Indian g...

Bhushan Gagrani, principal secretary (urban development), said the state government had taken a decision in February 2019 to levy one per c...

A Group of Ministers set up to look into Sikkim's demand of levying Covid cess on power and pharmaceutical sectors will meet on June 17. Ac...

GST compensation of Rs 1.58 lakh crore was planned to be financed through back-to-back loans to be raised by the Centre while Rs 1 lakh cro...

One major change introduced by the Council was the grant of IGST exemption to specified COVID -19 relief goods purchased for free distribut...

In the state’s capital of Mumbai, the country’s biggest property market, on an average more than one-third of any real estate project’s cos...

Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while presenting the vote on account on Friday, said that 25 per cent additional cess on liquor...

A majority of respondents in the survey believe that with the government facing the prospect of significantly increased expenditure in the ...

While the modality of the same is still not clear, the government is looking to introduce additional cess on current direct and indirect ta...

Six more states - Goa, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram and Himachal Pradesh - will be giving their option in a day or two, fina...

Under the GST framework, any decision on compensation and how it needs to be provided rests with the council, according to a person familia...

The move will help the state to mobilise additional revenue of Rs 145 crore in the current fiscal.

Ministry sources said that in the present economic scenario during the COVID-19 pandemic, any purported proposal of introducing a calamity ...

Assam finance minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “We had an informal discussion with these states and we may increase the tax on liquor. T...

While Nagaland is the first state to impose a Covid-specific cess, Assam recently increased taxes on petrol by Rs 6 and on diesel by Rs 5, ...

This notification shall come into force with effect from midnight of April 28.

“In the context of Covid-19 situation, considering the immediate requirement of ventilators and other items, the Central Government has gra...