Medicines, medical devices to get cheaper from Sept 22 under new GST regimeThe government has mandated pharma companies to revise the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) of medicines, formulations, and medical devices by Se...
13 Sep, 2025, 05.33 PM IST
ET Graphics: The big winners of GST 2.0GST tax rates on common use items ranging from hair oil to corn flakes, TVs, and personal health and life insurance policies were slashed a...
04 Sep, 2025, 10.11 AM IST
GST Council Meeting Key Takeaways: From medical insurance premium to rate rationalisation, here's what Sitharaman & Co decided54th Gst Council Meeting Key Takeaways: The 54th GST Council meeting, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is taking place in Ne...
10 Sep, 2024, 12.54 PM IST
GST council likely to give big relief to individuals, senior citizens on Health Insurance premiums: SourcesGST Council Meeting: The 54th GST Council meeting on Monday is expected to make a key decision regarding the GST rate on health insurance p...
09 Sep, 2024, 03.31 PM IST
GST Council Meet: GST rate on millet-based products slashed to 5%The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has decided to reduce the GST on millet flour food preparations from 18% to 5%. The fitment commit...
07 Oct, 2023, 12.44 PM IST
Making it Electric: BS Yediyurappa writes to FM to withdraw GST Cess on hybrid carsThe chief minister in his letter has highlighted the importance of transition to electric mobility through local manufacturing in the backd...
01 Nov, 2020, 02.25 PM IST
After Kerala, Punjab says GST needs a fresh lookFalling goods and services tax collections seems to be driving a wedge between states and the Centre.
04 Oct, 2019, 10.25 AM IST
GST rate cut for hotel industry, no major relief for auto sectorIn a bid to boost exports, rate on precious and semi-precious stones were also reduced.
20 Sep, 2019, 10.28 PM IST
Mahindra cuts e-Verito price by up to Rs 80,000The company has also slashed price of its electric three wheeler Treo by up to Rs 20,000. The prices of the model will now start at Rs 2.05...
02 Aug, 2019, 08.29 PM IST
Tata Motors cuts Tigor EV price by up to Rs 80,000The price reduction will be applicable across all the variants of Tigor EV, the company said.
01 Aug, 2019, 07.46 PM IST
Tax boost for EVs, GST slashed to 5% from 12%The GST Council slashed the tax on EVs to 5 per cent from 12 per cent effective August 1, 2019.
27 Jul, 2019, 02.50 PM IST
GST Council approves transition plan for new tax rates for real estate sectorThe meeting of the GST Council deliberated on the transition provision and related issues for the implementation of lower GST rates for the...
19 Mar, 2019, 02.49 PM IST
A lower GST will lead to greater alignment in real estate: Rajnish KumarAny such decision by the GST Council will lead to faster clearance of houses, Kumar said.
14 Feb, 2019, 03.15 PM IST
Narendra Modi & Arun Jaitley want to revive housing with a big GST rate cutThe intent is to be consumer friendly, and bring home buyers back to the market with a much cheaper GST rate.
19 Dec, 2018, 04.11 PM IST
GST council likely to slash tax on 80 per cent items of top rate slab: Sushil Modi"So far, tax rates have been slashed on more than 100 items", he added. The GST Council will meet on November 9 and 10 in Assam's capital G...
08 Nov, 2017, 10.00 PM IST
GST Council flooded with requests to slash tax ratesIndia moved to a GST regime on July 1 after the Council fixed over 1,200 products in four tax slabs of 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent.
14 Aug, 2017, 05.02 PM IST
FMCG companies to extend tax benefits to customers, slash pricesThe companies such as Patanjali, ITC, HUL and Marico are either slashing the prices of goods or increasing the grammage of the product on d...
03 Jul, 2017, 09.31 PM IST