-The Hindu Aadhaar link for registration proposed Panaji: From October 1, taking the family for a holiday is set to become a more economical affair, but the consumption of energy drinks will become more expensive, following a marathon meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council that lasted nearly nine hours on September 20. While the tax rates were tweaked up or down for several goods and services, the Council left...
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Government announces Rs.50,000 crore overhaul of export tax refund scheme - Gireesh Chandra Prasad and Asit Ranjan Mishra
-Livemint.com * Scheme for remission of duties of taxes on export products will replace Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) scheme, said FM * The new scheme which will benefit all products including textiles is more beneficial to the industry, the minister said at a briefing Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced a slew of measures including a new attractive scheme to refund the duties and taxes on exports that will replace...
More »Economic crisis: Why it suits neoliberals to point fingers solely on demonetisation 'shock' -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The roots of the present economic slowdown squarely lie within the neoliberal trajectory, which has led to a crisis of overproduction. Demonetisation and ‘hasty’ GST only aggravated it. With former prime minister Manmohan Singh resurfacing on the political landscape and articulating once more the orthodox neoliberal position, one can now clearly discern three distinct perspectives on the current economic slowdown. The first is the orthodox neoliberal position that Singh has now articulated....
More »Troubling features of the GST regime -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-Macroscan.org/ The Hindu Business Line The Goods and Services Tax regime appears to have reduced the resource generating capacity of the states and contributed to worsening inter-state inequality. Please click here to read the entire article. ...
More »GST collections dip below Rs 1 lakh crore to Rs 98,202 cr in August
-The Indian Express This is the second time during this year that the revenue collection from the GST slipped below the Rs 1 lakh crore mark. First, it happened in June when the collection was Rs 99,939 crore. New Delhi: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections have dropped to Rs 98,202 crore in August from over Rs 1.02 lakh crore in the previous month. However, total GST for August this...
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