Mysuru: 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…
Domestic LPG gets costlier but commercial LPG is cheaper
July 4, 2017New Delhi: Your household expenses on LPG cylinder has now gone up by Rs. 32 from July 1 depending on the State you reside in. There are twin reasons for this: One is the introduction of GST and the other is a reduction in subsidy. Domestic LPG is under the 5% tax bracket under the…
GST confusion in Mysuru: While some conduct business with GST, others do business as usual
July 2, 2017Mysuru: The confusion over the newly-implemented Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the country can be seen in Mysuru too, with many traders seeking the help of Chartered Accountants to understand GST. While most of the malls, hotels, medical stores and other business establishments are giving bills by implementing GST, which included Central GST and…
GST is ‘Good and Simple Tax’: PM Modi
July 1, 2017The Goods and Services Tax (GST) came into force at the stroke of midnight amid a historic midnight session at the Central Hall of Parliament. President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addressed the gathering, before the President and the Prime Minister launched the GST. Speaking on the occasion, the…
GST Effect: City medical stores withdraw discounts
July 1, 2017Mysuru: “Dear customers, as the Central Government is implementing GST from today midnight, we are not able to provide you discounts on medicines. Please co-operate.” Almost all the 400-odd medical stores in the city sported this board near their counters and at prominent places yesterday to make customers aware of the impact of Goods and…
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