No GST on these 14 items!!
In 14 consecutive tweets, Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that GST will not be levied on the sale of these 14 items without packing and labeling. Along with this, he told why the government decided to impose GST on these items.
With effect from Monday, July 18, the government has imposed 5% GST on many items of daily use including packaged and labeled milk, curd, pulses, flour. This decision was taken by the government in the 47th meeting of the GST Council, after which the prices of many items have increased. This has put another burden of inflation on the poor and middle class families. After this, today Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in 14 consecutive tweets that this decision was taken in the meeting of the GST Council, in which the non-BJP government states also agreed.
In the next tweet, he said that is this the first time that such food items are being taxed? No, states were collecting significant revenue from food grains in the pre-GST regime. punjab alone has recovered over Rs 2,000 crore on food grains as purchase tax. On the other hand, UP has collected Rs 700 crore.
GST will not be applicable on 14 items
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said through her tweet that selling these food items without packing and without label will not attract GST. It includes items like pulses, wheat, rye, oats, corn, rice, flour, semolina, gram flour, puffed rice, curd and lassi.
The fitment committee recommended, these state officials joined
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted that GST was implemented keeping in mind the tax to be collected by the states. However, soon it was misused and the GST revenue from these items declined significantly, after which the fitment committee made its recommendations to the government to change the modalities to prevent this. After that it is implemented. The fitment committee included officials from Rajasthan, West Bengal, tamil Nadu, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, haryana and Gujarat.
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