Just Three Months After The Implementation, Government Has Reduced The Rates On 27 Items.

Following the meeting of the GST council, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has come up with various relief ideas for the people. The major one being the allowance to file tax returns once a quarter instead of filing them every month. This one step will help businessmen, especially the small businessmen. Focusing on providing relief to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the exporters from the major changes because of the tech-oriented goods and services tax (GST), the GST council announced various changes in the rules on Friday. Nirmal Singh Lotus Green says that according to the changes announced by the panel, the tax rates on about 27 products and some services and also requested the panel of the state ministers to think if they could change the 18% GST on air conditioned restaurants and try to lower it. Nirmal Singh Lotus Green said that the council, headed by the Finance Minister has agreed to continue with the two pre- GST era schemes which allows duty- fre...