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Centre frontloads Rs 75,000 crore to states as GST compensation

Move to help state govts spur capex amid pandemic

No FTA with nations you have armed conflict with: Fin secy on RCEP decision

Somanathan said that a dose of carefully calibrated tariff protection for select sectors showing potential may be desirable

SME CHATROOM: Third-party payment allowed for imports subject to conditions

Notification No. 66/2017 exempts all suppliers of goods who have not opted for composition scheme, from payment of GST on advances received

Banker's Trust: Has crony capitalism hijacked bad loan resolution?

If bankers move fast and preserve the enterprise value of defaulting companies, recovery rate will improve even as the new insolvency law, much like the GST, remains a work in progress

GST probe busts firms for 'fake' input tax credit invoices worth Rs 91 cr

GST officers have busted a network of 23 entities involved in creation of fake invoices worth Rs 551 crore and passing inadmissible input tax credit worth Rs 91 crore.

Covid impact: June GST collection falls below Rs 1 trn-mark after 8 months

With reduction in caseload and easing of lockdowns, the e-way bills generated during June indicates recovery of trade and business, says govt

Change policies to promote industry, manufacturing: Kerala finance minister

We need to promote indigenous industry and indigenous knowledge and translate them into industrial production, says Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal

Enhanced GST mop-up of recent months should now be 'new normal': FM

Sitharaman said taxpayer base has almost doubled to 1.28 crore in four years of rollout of the historic tax reform and the enhanced GST mop up in the recent months should now be the "new normal"

GST Council special session will be held on compensation-related issues: FM

She also said that the flow of Covid-19 vaccination across the country will be well managed and all states will be taken care of

View from the edge

The Union government is so fiscally ineffective that it can only spend an incremental 0.4 per cent of GDP on healthcare in a pandemic, against a global average of 1.2 per cent, writes Rathin Roy

Best of BS Opinion: Four years of GST, towards better governance & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Thursday

Finance ministry to issue appreciation certificates to 54,439 GST payers

The ministry said it will issue certificates of appreciation to over 54,000 GST payers for timely filing of returns and cash payment of the tax, to mark the 4th anniversary of the historic tax reform

Four years of GST

Some distance covered but there is scope for a huge improvement

Govt mulling ways to ease tax burden on foreign AIF investors

Such investors have had to bear higher taxes on their investment because of the goods and services tax (GST) borne by such funds, which is ultimately passed on to the investors

GST: A turning point?

The recent upsurge in revenues offers the prospect of the country breaking out of the long-stagnant tax-to-GDP ratio

Advance tax collection surges 146% despite Covid-19-led economic disruption

Net direct tax mop-up zooms 100% till June 15

Dangers of a wrong diagnosis

Indirect taxes are now higher than direct taxes. But cutting indirect tax rates to address this will amount to barking up the wrong tree

Direct tax mop-up zooms 85% in spite of economic disruption due to Covid-19

Trend in contrast to moderation in GST collections last month

After the GST cut

Council should address structural shortfall in revenue

GST collections fall to an 8-month low in May; exceed Rs 1 trillion-mark

The goods and services tax collection stood at Rs 1.02 trillion in May compared with a record high of Rs 1.41 trillion in April and Rs 1.24 trillion in March