The legislative agenda for the winter session also includes bills to extend provisions of women's reservation act to J&K and Puducherry, an...

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council will meet on October 7 to discuss the reconstitution of the group of ministers on rate rationaliza...

In order to resolve the jurisdictional issues while dealing with enforcement cases, the GST Council has clarified that the tax authorities,...

Institutional strengthening: The key ideas relate to cooperative federalism and implementation of the Taxpayer's Charter, along with focus ...

On Friday, several state finance ministers had blocked a move to increase GST on garments and footwear as part of the proposal to correct t...

A lot of items, at present, are outside the GST net. The new govt must improve its coverage.

The GST Council secretariat have been tasked to compile the suggestions and responses and send to the CBIC, which is the apex body for Indi...

States will administer and control 90 per cent of the assessees below Rs 1.5 crore annual turnover, and the remaining 10 per cent coming un...

Marring the government's celebrations at Parliament was the silent protest by Rajya Sabha MP Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu at Gandhi statue.

The Union Cabinet had recently approved appointment of the Secretary (Revenue) as the ex-officio Secretary to the GST council.

The Finance Minister has assured them that composition of the GST council secretariat would be looked into, the association said in a state...

It will decide on the tax rate, exemptions and threshold limits in the new indirect tax regime, which is expected to kick in from April 1, ...

The government has notified the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016, with effect from September 12.

The government wants the institutional arrangements ready so that the GST Council can start deliberating the nuances of the law quickly.

The tax department today said GST can be implemented anytime during a year and not only the beginning of a financial year.

CBEC has suggested to FM Arun Jaitley to set up consultative bodies in each state in form of GST Secretariat for better coordination betwee...

The CGST would be a Central law, the states would have to pass the their own legislation which will based on the model legislation.