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Finance Minister raises hopes of further pruning 28% rate

26 Dec 2018 Evaluate

After cuts in the goods and services tax (GST) rates in last week, Finance Minister and GST Council Chairman Arun Jaitley has raised hopes of further pruning the peak rate (28%) and merging the 12% and 18% slabs. Though, the single standard rate will take some time after GST revenues see a ‘significant’ rise’.  He added that the 28% slab is now a dying slab.  At present, 28 items, including luxury and sin goods, auto parts, dishwashers, air conditioners (ACs), and cement remain in the highest slab.

He said the next priority will be to transfer cement to a lower slab. He underlined ‘with the GST transformation completed, we are close to completing the first set of rates of rationalisation, i.e. phasing out the 28 per cent slab except in luxury and sin goods’

Among the items under the 28 % rate, the ones used by the mass population are cement and auto parts. The rates on these items were not cut in the last meeting on account of revenue implications of Rs 330 billion. While the cement cut will hit the exchequer by Rs 130 billion, auto parts will have a bearing of Rs 200 billion of revenues.


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