GST tax slabs News
CEA said that over time, the 12 percent and 18 percent rate can probably be collapsed into one rate.
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Friday decided to slash tax slabs for 178 items from 28 percent to 18 percent.
Concept of GST is not new to the world as nearly 160 countries up till now, have opted this mode for bringing individually tax rates into a single tax.
Defending the different slabs, he said the central government was trying to introduce the new tax system with the consent of states and did not want to impose it.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley is likely to limit the tax rate on services at 12 and and 18 percent.
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