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FM Sitharaman said that a GoM will also be constituted to deal with the issue concerning compensation cess which will cease after March 2026.
Updated : Sep 09, 2024, 08:58 PM IST | Edited by : Prashant Tamta
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The GST Council in its meeting has decided to cut tax rates on cancer drugs to 5 per cent from 12 per cent (total 7%) and namkeens from 18 per cent to 12 per cent (6%). Sitharaman further said that a GoM will also be constituted to deal with the issue concerning compensation cess which will cease after March 2026.
GST Council headed by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has decided to set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) on reducing tax rate on life and health insurance. Briefing reporters on the outcome of the 54th GST Council meeting, Sitharaman said it has decided to have a Group of Ministers (GoM) to look into the GST rate on life and health insurance. The GoM will be headed by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, who is currently heading the panel on GST rate rationalisation.
Sitharaman said that new members would be joining the GoM to look into GST on health insurance. The GoM will be submitting its report by October end, she said. The issue of taxation of insurance premiums had figured in Parliament discussions with Opposition members demanding that health and life insurance premiums be exempt from the GST. Even Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari wrote to Sitharaman on the issue.
Sitharaman in her reply to a discussion on the Finance Bill had said that 75 per cent of the GST collected goes to states and the Opposition members should ask their state finance ministers to bring the proposal at the GST Council.
The Council also deliberated on the GoM's status report on rate rationalisation and online gaming. The minister further said that a committee of secretaries headed by Additional Secretary (Revenue) will be formed on the IGST which is currently facing a negative balance. It will look into ways to retrieve the money from states.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA staff and is published from PTI)
