15th Finance Commission has suggested merging 12 and 18% tax rates
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Today is first day of the financial year 2020-21, and with new year come new tax rules. Here are the six changes that come into effect from today
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GST Council had also pruned the list of items in the top 28 per cent slab to just 50 from 228 earlier
FM Jaitley also said the Council had been looking at the 28% tax slab and constantly rationalising items in it in lesser tax slabs
The GST Council will meet on November 9 and 10 in Assam's capital Guwahati
GST Council is scheduled to meet next on November 10 and may consider lowering tax rates on a host of goods
Dealers would have to maintain computerised records of input tax credit, reverse charge mechanism
With the exempted category, the existing tax slabs are of 5, 12, 18 and 28%