Usually life gets simpler as nations progress. But not in India where a barrage of sudden changes, new rules and revised regulations are making life burdensome for ordinary people. First, it was demonetisation. The dislocations that abrupt adventure triggered are still haunting people. As if that were not enough, a whole new mess has developed…
GST on Sanitary Napkins
July 17, 2017Mysuru: Former Zilla Panchayat President Dr. Pushpa B. Amarnath, who launched a signature campaign demanding the removal of GST (Goods and Services Tax) on sanitary napkins first in Hunsur and then at Maharani’s College and Yuvaraja College in Mysuru, has now intensified the campaign by posting a letter in this regard to Union Minister Nirmala…
Workshop on GST for merchants
July 15, 2017Mysuru: Mysore Textile and Readymade Garments Merchants Association (MTRGMA) had organised an awareness workshop on Goods and Services Tax (GST) at Nityotsava Convention Centre at Krishnamurthypuram here recently. Inaugurating the event, Sudhakar S. Shetty, Vice-President, FKCCI, Bengaluru, opined that GST was a good move to have a uniform tax system in the country and added…
Goods and Services Tax is a miraculous achievement, says Nirmala Sitharaman
July 14, 2017Mysuru: Even as the tax chaos continues with so much of pre-GST uncertainty, the erudite Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman said the introduction of One Nation, One Market, One Tax, was a miraculous achievement. Participating in the GST — One Nation, One Tax, interaction with the industry and trade bodies…
GST: Conduct cluster meetings, Union Minister tells Commissioner
July 14, 2017Mysuru: Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman pointedly asked the GST Mysuru Commissionerate, Commissioner G.V. Krishna Rao to go to the people instead of sitting in the office to clarify the problems and issues faced by the trade and industry bodies. “Your mission should be to go to each cluster, sit with the affected people there and…
Nirmala Sitharaman in city tomorrow
July 12, 2017Mysuru: Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be visiting the city tomorrow (July 13) to participate in various programmes including Deen Dayal Upadhyaya’s birth centenary workshop that has been organised in the three Assembly constituencies in Mysuru and to highlight the benefits of GST. She will first visit Ward No. 47 at Rajendra Nagar, N.R….
Rental income beyond Rs. 20 lakh to attract GST
July 12, 2017New Delhi: Income earned from renting out residential property has been exempt from GST. However, if the income exceeds Rs. 20 lakh by renting or leasing it for commercial purposes then it will attract levy. Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia has said at the GST Master Class that if the house property is rented out for…
Workshop on GST held for JSS Staff
July 11, 2017Mysuru: A workshop on GST was held for the staff of JSS Educational Institutions at JSS Women’s College in Saraswathipuram here recently. Assistant Commissioners of Commercial Tax M. Balasubramanya and V. Kumar, Assistant Commissioners of GST Commissionerate (Central GST and Central Excise Department) Akshata Srinivas and Pallavi Anand explained the procedures involved in GST and…
City students oppose 12% GST on sanitary napkins; launch signature campaign
July 7, 2017Mysuru: While a campaign asking for exemption of tax on sanitary napkins has been gaining momentum nationwide, Mysuru witnessed a mass signature campaign at Maharanis College this morning against the government move. The 12 percent Goods and Services Tax (GST) on sanitary pads has become a point of contention with women activists, NGOs and citizens…
GHOST: Manifesting itself as GST
July 7, 2017What is in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet, wrote William Shakespeare (1564-1616) in his famous play Romeo and Juliet. The field is open to any playwright of our times to write a matching line about taxes in general and Goods and Services Tax in…
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