The Centre has detected goods and services tax (GST) evasion worth Rs 824.14 crore by crypto exchanges, such as Binance, WazirX, CoinDCX, and CoinSwitch Kuber, the Lok Sabha was informed.
CII Eastern Region, today, facilitated an interactive session with Shrawan Kumar, IRS, chief commissioner, CGST & Central Excise Kolkata and Manoj Kumar Kedia, IRS, principal commissioner, CGST & Excise Kolkata, with various industry stakeholders in Kolkata.
The GST Council will hold its next meeting in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer on December 21, during which it is likely to take a decision on exempting or lowering the GST rate on health and life insurance.
It is the eighth consecutive month when GST collections stayed above the Rs 1.7 lakh crore mark.
The officials from the Kerala Goods and Services Tax (GST) department have seized 104 kg of unaccounted gold valued at around Rs 75 crore in massive raids across gold jewellery-manufacturing units, wholesale outlets and residences in Thrissur district. The raids began on Wednesday and concluded on this morning.
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He further accused the central government of allegedly taking Rs 3 crores of funds originally assigned for Delhi.
Sanitary napkins are taxed 12 per cent tax under the one-year old GST regime, which attracted serious criticism from various quarters.
In what comes as a major boost for women in the country and would go a long way to ensure the success of heath programmes centred on women, the Union Government decided on Saturday that there will be no Goods and Services Tax (GST) on sanitary napkins.
"Accordingly, five state governments and one Union Territory have reduced the VAT on petrol and diesel," he said.
