6/19/2013: Business: GST unplugged

(Kerrville Daily Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Local increases in sales tax revenue are beating statewide trends. The May sales tax revenue report from the state comptroller's office indicates a statewide increase ...

Sushil Modi, who spearheaded the proposed Goods and Services Tax for almost over two years, on Monday resigned as chairperson of the Empowered Committee of state finance ministers, following the JD(U)-BJP split in Bihar on Sunday. "I have resigned ...

Parliament (MP) yesterday approved a request for a waiver of taxes amounting to US$7,413,611.00 on goods and services relating to the execution of the grant agreement between the government of Japan and the Republic of Ghana for the rehabilitation ...

A conference of finance ministers of eight northeastern (NE) states, which have been accorded special state status, will be held at Shillong on June 19 to discuss the Goods and Services tax (GST). The chairman of the group of ministers on GST and Bihar deputy ...

The proposed tax reform Goods and Service Tax ( GST) that will replace all existing central and state indirect taxes is bound to be implemented in the country soon. This was stated by Sushil Kumar Modi, deputy chief minister of Biharand chairman of the ...

The author has posted comments on this article Diwakar, TNN | May 29, 2013, 01.28AM IST TOKYO: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that the much-awaited goods and services tax (GST) will become a reality by 2014 regardless of who forms the ...

Mobile phones and tablets are unlikely to find place in the list of declared goods in the goods and service tax (GST) regime.

States today took another small step towards the Goods & Services Tax (GST) by agreeing to a keep a common exemption list, but failed to reach a consensus on the bigger issues of Revenue Neutral Rate (RNR), dual control and threshold for keeping traders out ...

New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said work on Goods and Services Tax (GST) was in progress and there was 70 percent possibility of the indirect tax legislation being passed in Parliament during the remaining tenure of the UPA-II. "GST is ...