State FMs panel moots GST design changes, asks NIPFP to give r...

Every time the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers meets outside Delhi there is some positive development on the Goods & Services Tax (GST).

The empowered committee (EC) of state finance ministers will meet next month to decide on the reports for a model legislation and design of the proposed goods and services tax (GST). The empowered committee will meet in Mussoorie, Uttarkhand on May ...

The Andhra Pradesh government thinks a recent suggestion made by the empowered committee of state finance ministers with regard to raising the tax on cigarettes is not in the best interest of the state.

Anam Ramanarayana Reddy Finance Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy on Friday requested the Empowered Committee of Finance Ministers to accelerate the process of arriving at an early consensus on the nature and extent of Constitutional amendments ...

The Bihar deputy chief minister and empowered committee chairman on goods and services tax (GST), Sushil Kumar Modi, today said GST could be implemented within six months if the Centre committed to compensate states for five years in case of any ...

The empowered committee of the finance ministry at its meeting on 6 May accorded final approval for viability gap funding of Rs1,458 crore for development of Hyderabad Metro Rail on a `Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer' (DBFOT) toll ...

May 11: State finance ministers have turned down the Centre's request to place mobile phones and tablets on the list of declared goods under the proposed goods and service tax (GST) regime, saying the idea is untenable. Items under the declared ...

Committing to carry forward the economic reforms programme in the remaining term of UPA-II, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the government will take more executive actions in the next two to four months and sought cooperation of the ...

New Delhi: With an aim to give further push to the GST, state finance ministers will meet for two days beginning Friday in Mussoorie to sort out complex issues such as tax rates and list of exemptions under the proposed indirect tax regime.The ...