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GST Council meeting likely to clear supplementary legislations

16 Mar 2017 Evaluate

In a step ahead to roll out the ambitious indirect tax reform from July 1, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) council, chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and comprising representatives of all states, is expected to approve the state GST (SGST) and the union territory GST (UTGST) bills at its meeting on March 16. The GST council is also expected to discuss, capping the cess to be levied on demerit goods like luxury cars and tobacco products for creation of a corpus that will be used for compensating states for their revenue loss from GST implementation in the first five years.

In the previous meeting, the Council had approved two key legislations, the Central GST (CGST) and Integrated GST (IGST) and is expected to approve supplementary legislations that are SGST and UTGST. Once approved, the supporting legislations together with a GST Compensation Law, will go to the Cabinet for a formal nod before they are presented in Parliament in the ongoing Budget session that ends on April 12. 

On similar lines, the panel is also expected to decide on a cap rate for cess to be levied at the peak rate of tax to create the compensation corpus. Any law approved by Parliament cannot have open-ended tax rates and therefore a cap or peak rate will have to be mentioned. For the levy of GST, the peak rate has been put at 40 per cent and a similar cap will also have to be approved for the cess.

The government is hoping the C-GST, the I-GST, the UT-GST and the GST Compensation laws will be approved in the current session of Parliament and the S-GST by each of the state legislatures soon to help roll out GST regime from July 1. The council may also be given an update on technology preparedness and migration of assessees to the new regime.

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