Hindustan Unilever Limited has increased prices for its soap products. This move is a response to escalating costs of raw materials and pac...

Indian consumer firms are seeing rising costs from higher crude oil prices. This could lead to price increases soon. Companies are trying t...

The Bombay High Court has granted an interim stay on the 18% GST levied on restaurant services within hotels charging over ₹7,500 per day f...

Indian tax authorities are investigating whether restaurants have evaded taxes on packaging charges, following scrutiny of 'food and delive...

GST: From April 1, 2025 restaurants inside hotels will have to charge 18% GST from customers instead of 5% previously if the said restauran...

Hotels with room tariffs over ₹7,500 per day will have their restaurants taxed at an 18% GST rate with input tax credit, according to new r...

Hotels charging room rent above Rs 7,500 a day will be considered 'specified premises' from April 1, 2025. Restaurant services in such prem...

According to a TOI report, the authority stated, “Irrespective of whether customers of Riddhi Enterprises (the applicant, which is a stand-...

Ahead of its June 2 meeting with the government to discuss the issues pertaining to service charges levied by restaurants, the top hotel in...

Food delivery apps will now be required to collect 5% GST from consumers instead of the restaurant they pick up orders from, Sitharaman sai...

The fitment committee, which comprises officers from various states that makes suggestions on tax rate changes, has recommended that the ec...

Observing that levying service charge in addition to goods and services tax (GST) amounts to unfair trade practice, a consumer forum has or...

Restaurants are currently levied a 5% GST, but they can’t claim the input tax credit against the tax they paid on raw materials and other e...

Branded snacks are taxed at 12% and cakes are taxed at 18%. GST rate inside restaurants is 5%.

GST, which came into effect on July 1, subsumes 17 indirect taxes and 22 cesses at different rates across different states.

GST will be levied on entire sum of food bill, including service charge, in a restaurant, while the value of alcohol or alcohol products co...

Earlier a normal restaurant bill used to show plethora of taxes which were charged by the state and the central government level.