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India Inc seeks growth-oriented budget, higher health spend from FM

Says fiscal consolidation be pushed for later years or formulated from three-year perspective

Centre considers market borrowing for GST compensation to states

Raising GST rates or rationalisation of tax slabs may be discussed by the GST Council in the next meeting to be scheduled early next month.

GST rates are revenue negative; rejigging slabs will take time: John Joseph

The rates right now are revenue negative and not revenue neutral, he added

States against GST slab, rate revamp until revenue stabilises: Sushil Modi

Says now onwards GST Council will consider any change in tax rates only once a year instead of in each and every meeting

Re-think GST: No economy can afford to persist with a failed tax experiment

Let's pretend no more that the system isn't broken. The Centre needs to break heads in the GST Council and work out new slabs and rates (the fewer the better) and make a fresh start, writes T N Ninan

Top 10 business headlines: RBI pauses on rate cut, GST slab raise & more

From RBI keeping rate cut unchanged, tough road for Subhash Chandra's Essel to Saudi Aramco raising $25.6 bn in largest-ever IPO, Business Standard brings you the top headlines of the day.

5% GST slab may be increased to 6%: Panel considering ways to boost revenue

The panel is also looking at bringing under GST items like foodgrains that faced either value-added tax or purchase tax

GST slabs may come down to 3 from 5 in coming days, says Sushil Kumar Modi

The BJP leader said that states were not paid full compensation amount

Only 62 items likely to stay in 28% GST slab

About three-fourth items in the highest tax slab may move to lower brackets

Change 28% slab to 18%: Amit Mitra

Mitra argued that the consumer items under the 18 per cent bracket should be brought under the 12 per cent