Bengal FM wrote that he had forewarned that giving up invoice matching would lead to widespread tax frauds and hawala transactions.

Mitra instead pitched for a cut in taxes on hybrid and BS VI vehicles.

In a letter to union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Mitra pointed at distortions in the rate structure, issues with the return filing...

Mitra has assured the exporters that he would write to the chairman of the GST council and the union finance minister, Arun Jaitley elabora...

According to him, the problem lies in the refund delivery mechanism because of "manual" processing of refund application and the system bec...

Mitra said the state government, under the leadership of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, had repeatedly asked the Centre not to implement G...

"Our Parliamentary Party has decided not to attend the 30th June, 2017 midnight programme at Parliament House to celebrate GST, as a mark o...

Speaking on the sidelines of a pre-budget meeting with city-based business chambers and associations, Mitra, who is also West Bengal's Fina...

It is said Bengal CM has instructed her colleagues in Parliament and in the GST council to raise objections over the implementation of the ...

All items should have a lower tax incidence now. “It should benefit the masses. Trinamool Congress, has been insisting that common people s...

Mitra said SMEs feed large industries and that this is the most labour-intensive sector and, therefore, SMEs should be given simpler passag...

Mitra said, "The rate should be such that it is neither too low or too high" and added that the level of the tax rate would not be discusse...

"I am politically opposed to the BJP government. But it doesn't mean I would block the passage for the pro- people bill, said Banerjee.

Mitra, who was named the new chairman of the empowered committee of state finance ministers in February, told ET that GST was good for the ...

Amit Mitra, finance minister of West Bengal and the new chief of GST, will now have to take forward the unfinished agenda of his predecesso...

During the inauguration of the Mega Trade Fair, the minister said the state's tax revenue has doubled because of e-governance.

Mitra said challenge for GST rollout was that it should come without losing revenue as each state had unique problems which required to be ...