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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre gets a taste of 'fake news' on GST

Centre gets a taste of 'fake news' on GST

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published Published on Jul 5, 2017   modified Modified on Jul 5, 2017
-The Telegraph

New Delhi:
The Narendra Modi dispensation, which has used social media as a force multiplier and reaped huge political dividends, is now having to reckon with its rumour-spreading powers that threaten to throw a spanner in the government's GST blitz.

In the first three days of the rollout of the new tax regime, the finance ministry has had to step in twice to counter rumours that were spreading like wildfire across social media platforms, particularly WhatsApp.

While one rumour fell purely in the realm of payments, the second and more pernicious one had the potential of vitiating the atmosphere as it suggested preferential treatment under GST to mosques and churches, triggering animated debates on WhatsApp on the BJP's favourite subject of minority appeasement.

"There are some messages going around on social media stating that temple trusts have to pay the GST while the churches & mosques are exempt. We request people at large not to start circulating such wrong messages on social media. This is completely untrue because no distinction is made in the GST law on any provision based on religion," the finance ministry tweeted on Monday evening.

Earlier, on Sunday, revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia went on Twitter to clarify: "A wrong message is doing rounds on social media that if u make payment of utility bills by credit cards, you will be paying GST twice. This is completely untrue. Please do not recirculate such message without checking it with authority."

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The Telegraph, 5 July, 2017, https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170705/jsp/nation/story_160280.jsp


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