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GST Council may allow intra-state pharma cess, discuss states' dues

It may discuss extending the compensation cess for states beyond 2022

No FTA with nations you have armed conflict with: Fin secy on RCEP decision

Somanathan said that a dose of carefully calibrated tariff protection for select sectors showing potential may be desirable

GST Council special session will be held on compensation-related issues: FM

She also said that the flow of Covid-19 vaccination across the country will be well managed and all states will be taken care of

Four years of GST

Some distance covered but there is scope for a huge improvement

GST at four: A dive into the milestones and the unfinished agenda

GST Council must maintain revenue momentum, simplify rate structure, and strengthen cooperative federalism in spirit and letter

GST Council meets become toxic, consider course correction: Mitra to FM

West Bengal minister Amit Mitra on Wednesday urged Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to consider a "course correction" to rebuild faith.

GST: A turning point?

The recent upsurge in revenues offers the prospect of the country breaking out of the long-stagnant tax-to-GDP ratio

GST Council becoming authoritarian and majoritarian: Bengal FM Amit Mitra

Mitra said that the GST Council was the only federalist institution, but in the last few years, an omnipotent, authoritarian and majoritarian approach was creeping into the GST Council.

GST Council has turned majoritarian, decisions not by consensus: Amit Mitra

Decisions were no longer taken on the basis of a consensus as originally envisaged: Mitra

After the GST cut

Council should address structural shortfall in revenue

GST Council to meet Saturday, discuss tax exemption on Covid-19 essentials

The council meet is expected to deliberate the exemption and concession on Covid-19 related items

GoM on Covid items should focus on people's interests

The GoM will give its findings by June 8 and the GST Council will take suitable decisions soon.

Do not politicise GST Council: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

The government is conscious of the intensity of the second wave of Covid-19 and is assessing its full impact before coming out with further packages and interventions, says FM Sitharaman

GST compensation: Oppn-ruled states claim Rs 55,000-cr underestimation

They have also sought an additional compensation of Rs 65,000 crore for FY21

More misses than hits

GST Council should have addressed pressing issues

All eyes on GoM call on taxing Covid items

Under the GST laws, hundreds of mass consumption items and essential services are exempted fully or attract a lower rate of tax than the standard rate of 18%

GST Council meet: Decision on tax cuts on Covid-19 vaccines by June 8

The issue of GST rates on vaccines and other Covid-related supplies will be reviewed by a Group of Ministers (GoM).

GST Council meet: Govt to borrow Rs 1.58 trn for compensation shortfall

States' demand for the extension of the compensation period beyond June 2022 will be taken up in a separate meeting

GST: Centre to borrow Rs 1.58 trn in FY22 to compensate states, says FM

Nirmala Sitharaman announces a flurry of pandemic-related relief measures after the 43rd GST Council meeting

GST Council meet begins, tax rate cut on Covid essentials on agenda

Compensation of states is also on the agenda