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GST Rates Rationalisation

  • April 19, 2022
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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GST Rates Rationalisation

Subject: Economy

Context- The Group of Ministers (GoM) will deliberate and finalise recommendations which will be sent to the GST Council, headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and comprising state finance ministers.

Concept-

  • There was a thought in some quarters that the slab of 5 per cent may be broken into 3 per cent and 8 per cent, and the remaining slabs of 12, 18 and 28 per cent will continue.

GST Council:

  • It is a constitutional body under Article 279A.
  • It makes recommendations to the Union and State Government on issues related to Goods and Service Tax and was introduced by the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016.
  • The GST Council is chaired by the Union Finance Minister and other members are the Union State Minister of Revenue or Finance and Ministers in-charge of Finance or Taxation of all the States.
  • It is considered as a federal body where both the centre and the states get due representation.
  • Every decision of the Goods and Services Tax Council shall be taken at a meeting by a majority of not less than three-fourths of the weighted votes of the members present and voting, in accordance with the following principles, namely:
    • the vote of the Central Government shall have a weightage of one third of the total votes cast, and
    • the votes of all the State Governments taken together shall have a weightage of two-thirds of the total votes cast, in that meeting.
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