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Council to decide on bringing natural gas, ATF under GST ambit: Adhia

27 Jun 2018 Evaluate

Days before Goods and Services Tax (GST) rollout completes a year, Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia has said that natural gas and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) are ‘natural’ and ‘easier’ candidates for inclusion in the GST regime. He also said that the regime’s highest decision making body GST Council will take a call on bringing these two items within the purview of new tax regime. However, he did not say if it would be on the agenda for the next GST Council meeting on July 21.

Adhia further highlighted that since GST roll out on July 1 last year, the government has cut tax rates on a slew of goods and services as well as simplified rules in an attempt to rationalise the regime that reshaped India's industrial landscape as it widened the country’s tiny tax base, removed myriad middlemen, vanquished border checkposts, freed up internal trade and made it easier to do business.

Though, Finance Secretary pointed out that the challenge has been to include cash cows crude oil, natural gas, petrol, diesel and ATF under GST. He noted that oil yielded maximum revenue for both the central and state governments, and none seemed to want to let go of it. Besides, he mentioned that while prevailing tax rate, made up of central excise duty and state VAT on petrol and diesel, is way beyond the 28 percent peak tax rate under GST, tax incidence on natural gas and ATF is low enough to get fitted into one of the 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent GST tax bracket. 

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