New GST rates: Is the puzzle over popcorn, paranthas and paneer finally solved?New GST Rates: The GST Council has approved a new tax structure effective September 22, resolving long-standing confusions on food items. P...
04 Sep, 2025, 07.37 PM IST
GST council hikes tax on online real money gaming and betting to 40% from 28%The GST Council raised tax on online real money gaming from 28% to 40%, classifying it as a ‘sin good’ alongside casinos and betting. House...
04 Sep, 2025, 01.20 PM IST
GST on gaming and gambling: Don’t ‘game over’ before it has even begunCaught between a perception that online games are nothing but a rich man’s gambit that only whips up greed and promotes gambling, India’s $...
12 Jul, 2022, 02.44 PM IST
Govt plans GST lottery offers of Rs 10 lakh-Rs 1 cr for encouraging customers to ask for bills"We have come with the new lottery system. Every bill under GST is supposed to be a price-winning lottery ticket. It will go for a draw and...
05 Feb, 2020, 10.13 AM IST
There should be just 3 GST rates: 6, 12 & 18%: Bibek DebroyFor small and medium cos, GST has also complicated matters because of various rates and processes.
29 Sep, 2019, 04.10 PM IST
GST Council to decide on tax cut on EVs this weekTo push domestic manufacturing of e-vehicles, the Centre proposed to the Council to slash GST rates to 5 per cent from 12 per cent.
22 Jul, 2019, 10.26 AM IST
GST council extends tenure of anti-profiteering bodyThe 35th Council meeting was the first to be chaired by the new finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
22 Jun, 2019, 08.29 AM IST
35th GST council meet: Single return for all businesses from January 1, 2020The GST Council also extended the date for filing annual returns under the GST by two months to August 30.
21 Jun, 2019, 08.35 PM IST
Sitharaman's first GST Council meet to decide on NAA extension, single point refund systemThe Council is likely to discuss a mechanism for single point sanctioning and processing GST refunds.
20 Jun, 2019, 07.51 PM IST
GoM favours uniform tax on lottery, GST Council to decide rate on February 20Currently, a state-organised lottery attracts 12 per cent GST while a state-authorised lottery attracts 28 per cent tax.
18 Feb, 2019, 07.06 PM IST
GST panel to study uniform tax rate on lotteryThe GST Council has constituted an eight-member Group of Ministers under Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, the Finance Minis...
16 Jan, 2019, 08.07 PM IST
Over 2,300 women to go on Haj this year without 'Mehram': Mukhtar Abbas NaqviThe Modi government had last year allowed women going to Haj without Mehram, which had resulted in about 1,300 Muslim women going for the p...
16 Jan, 2019, 02.07 PM IST
Try your luck! Buy lotteries on your mobile phoneSugal & Damani will roll out its mobile platform (app) ‘Luckykhel’ over the next few days.
30 Oct, 2018, 11.45 AM IST
No reduction in H-1B visas to India: Nirmala SitharamanThe minister said that with the change in system of giving out visas, only the category of people will undergo a change with an increase in...
21 May, 2017, 12.59 AM IST
Luring taxpayers with unusual incentives may help make GST Bill a successThere’s some sort of a gradation system which makes a connection between the size of the purchase and the level of prize that one is eligib...
19 Aug, 2016, 05.23 PM IST
- Goods and service tax and its implications
The government is making frantic attempts to roll out a comprehensive goods and services tax (GST) from April 1, 2010. ET takes a look at t...
25 Dec, 2009, 04.12 AM IST
- GST to subsume central excise, VAT among other levies
Various levies such as excise, value added tax and service tax are proposed to be subsumed in the the Goods and Services Tax, making it a l...
10 Nov, 2009, 07.53 PM IST