After calling off the last meeting due to differences between states and demonetization, the two-day meeting of Goods and Service Tax (GST) council is all set to start on December 2, to finalise the three draft legislations for Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST), Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST) and compensation law.
The 2-Day GST Council meet is also likely to take up the vexed issue of cross empowerment of states and the Centre to avoid dual control which has remained a contentious one during the previous two GST Council meetings. The informal GST meeting will be chaired by the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and will have Minister of State in charge of revenue and state finance ministers as members.
On November 20, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had called for an informal meeting with his state counterparts to thrash out a political solution, but the meet failed to arrive at a common ground on how the Centre and states will control assessees under the new regime. With states unrelenting on their position of being given right to control all assessees with up to Rs 1.5 crore annual turnover, it was decided that officials will meet and work out a possible arithmetic for addressing the issue. States like Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala insisted on exclusive control over small businesses, which earn less than Rs 1.5 crore in annual revenue, for both goods and services.
The government aims to roll out GST from April 1 next year, which will subsume excise, service tax and local levies. At the last meeting, the Council agreed on a four-slab structure - 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent along with a cess on luxury and ‘sin’ goods such as tobacco.
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