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Added on : 2019-12-07 19:38:03

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the government is working on streamlining the goods and services tax (GST) regime to eventually have three slabs.

Though any decision related to tax rate cut will be taken by the federal indirect tax body GST Council , the minister said “eventually we need to rationalise (rates). Do we want more slabs? Do we want to have just two or three slabs. Original intent was that there will be three slabs—merit, sin and the standard".

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the government is working on streamlining the goods and services tax (GST) regime to eventually have three slabs.

Though any decision related to tax rate cut will be taken by the federal indirect tax body GST Council , the minister said “eventually we need to rationalise (rates). Do we want more slabs? Do we want to have just two or three slabs. Original intent was that there will be three slabs—merit, sin and the standard".

Editor & Publisher : Dr Dhimant Purohit

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