GST Council meeting 2026: What may change as GST 2.0 takes aim at ITC, refunds, arrest powers and other reformsGST Council Meeting 2026: The GST Council, meeting in New Delhi, is expected to propose significant reforms for tax administration. One ref...
08 Oct, 2026, 02.16 PM IST
GST 2.0's next move: Council may scrap officers' arrest powers, raise prosecution bar to Rs 5 croreThe GST Council is weighing changes to GST enforcement, including ending officials' arrest powers and shifting to court-ordered arrests. Cr...
04 Oct, 2026, 07.14 PM IST
India's commercial vehicle market just had its best year in seven. Then the June quarter arrived, and margins fellThere is, at this point, an apparent contradiction at work in the Indian commercial vehicles space. One: FY 2026 was the best of the last s...
01 Oct, 2026, 06.07 PM IST
ARSBC bought HMCS Chaudière from Canada’s Defence Department for $1 plus 7 cents GST; after its reef conversion, glass tunicates came to cover much of the vesselThe Canadian warship HMCS Chaudière was acquired for a symbolic price and subsequently sunk, transforming it into a vibrant artificial reef...
14 Sep, 2026, 02.40 PM IST
UK will now tax mansions worth more than £2 millionThe UK government will introduce a new annual council tax surcharge from April 2028 for properties in England valued at £2 million or more....
28 Nov, 2025, 12.17 PM IST
FM dispels concern of rise in GST rate, says there is not even one such itemFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman assured that no GST rates have been increased since its implementation. She clarified that the average ...
12 Feb, 2025, 01.42 PM IST
Inverted duty, slabs on GST Council radar: Tarun Bajaj, Revenue SecretaryCouncil will take a view on suggestions for change over next few meetings as GST marks 4 years, revenue secretary said.
02 Jul, 2021, 07.35 AM IST
Opposition states seek lower GST on Covid vaccines, medical gearWest Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra wrote to Sitharaman, the GST Council chair, to accept the state government's proposal of zero tax o...
25 May, 2021, 11.41 PM IST
GST council may keep tax load on cars below 50 per cent, cheer home budgetsThe Council will also formulate a mechanism to deal with businesses that are deregistering their brands to avoid taxes after the rollout of...
09 Sep, 2017, 10.26 AM IST
Top five factors that may chart market direction this coming weekOn a weekly basis, Sensex ended 0.12 per cent lower while NSE's Nifty shed 0.29 per cent.
18 Jun, 2017, 11.08 AM IST
GST protest: 70K tax officers to wear black bands to work on MondayThe associations representing them said the decisions are heavily tilted towards the states which is not good for the sovereign function of...
29 Jan, 2017, 05.08 PM IST
All efforts being made to implement GST from April 1: GovernmentThe Council, headed by Arun Jaitley and comprising representatives of all states, has been "very cordial and all decisions till now have be...
14 Dec, 2016, 09.02 PM IST
GST's a great idea. But making it work is not going to be easy, says Swaminathan AiyarThe slogan “one India, one tax, one market“ sounds terrific but may mislead non-experts. GST does not provide for one tax rate across India.
07 Aug, 2016, 04.06 PM IST
GST will be inflationary if standard rate is very high: CEA Arvind SubramanianChief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian says that the committee had recommended a range of GST rate depending on assumptions.
05 Aug, 2016, 08.53 AM IST
Rajya Sabha panel endorses majority provisions of GST BillThe landmark bill on GST today won majority support of the Rajya Sabha Select Committee, which endorsed almost all the provisions.
22 Jul, 2015, 03.14 PM IST
GST Bill in current form not acceptable: Tamil NaduThe Centre would enjoy effective veto in the GST Council, while all the States would have equal weightage in the new body, he added.
22 Apr, 2015, 04.43 PM IST
Let voting rather than consensus run GST council: PanelVoting rather than consensus be the main means of arriving at decisions within the GST council, the standing committee on finance has sugge...
27 Jun, 2013, 06.25 AM IST