Government looking for successor of Sushil Modi at GST panel

The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers' design squeezes out the politics from the new tax but makes it unacceptable as an alternative to the existing structure email this article Subject line: Your Email: Send me a copy: Recipients Id: Type ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

The panel of the State Finance Ministers on GST said on Friday that many issues, including a mechanism for CST compensation for the current fiscal, will have to be ironed out before rolling out the new indirect tax regime. Agreeing with Prime ...

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 ...

Mussoorie: Seeking speedy implementation of GST, State Finance Ministers on Friday pitched for a common exemption list for goods and services so that fewer number of items remain outside the indirect tax net. "As of now, the exempt list of states ...