Offering an olive branch to the Opposition to get the GST bill passed, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is willing to speak to everyone to get the......
Consensus has eluded the Centre and states on the proposed Goods and Services Tax. But in a pre-Budget exercise, states on Monday gave their approval to the introduction of a list of areas to......
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will meet his state counterparts on Wednesday to discuss the roadmap for rolling out Goods and Services Tax from April 2016. Jaitley would chair a meeting of the......
Kerala’s Finance Minister K M Mani has been appointed as the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on Goods and Services Tax (GST). The GST, an indirect tax regime,......
On the lines of the proposed Direct Taxes Code (DTC), the government plans to come out with a Common Tax Code (CTC) for service tax and central excise duty to harmonise the two indirect levies. "I......
Get ready to pay tax on every service barring those in some 20 categories such as construction, health, entertainment, restaurants, non-AC rail fares, travel by the metro or public buses, etc. A......