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GST Council assembly begins; key issues on agenda

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By PTI

NEW DELHI: The GST Council assembly began right here on Saturday and is more likely to talk about organising of appellate tribunals, and mechanism to curb tax evasion in pan masala and gutkha enterprise, amongst different issues.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is chairing the forty ninth assembly of the GST Council.

“Along with the Union Finance Minister, Union Minister of State for Finance Shri @mppchaudhary, in addition to Finance Ministers of States & UTs (with legislature) and Senior officers from Union Government & States are additionally attending the assembly,” the finance ministry stated in a tweet.

The objects, which couldn’t be mentioned by the Council in its final assembly on December 17, 2022, would high the agenda of the Saturday assembly, sources stated.

The report of the Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Odisha finance minister Niranjan Pujari, on checking tax evasion by pan masala and gutkha trade can also be more likely to be taken up for dialogue, they stated.

A GoM on Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunals (GSTATs) was arrange in July final 12 months underneath the chairmanship of Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala.

The GoM has prompt that the tribunals ought to include two judicial members, and one technical member every from the Centre and states, in addition to a retired Supreme Court decide as president.

NEW DELHI: The GST Council assembly began right here on Saturday and is more likely to talk about organising of appellate tribunals, and mechanism to curb tax evasion in pan masala and gutkha enterprise, amongst different issues.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is chairing the forty ninth assembly of the GST Council.

“Along with the Union Finance Minister, Union Minister of State for Finance Shri @mppchaudhary, in addition to Finance Ministers of States & UTs (with legislature) and Senior officers from Union Government & States are additionally attending the assembly,” the finance ministry stated in a tweet.

The objects, which couldn’t be mentioned by the Council in its final assembly on December 17, 2022, would high the agenda of the Saturday assembly, sources stated.

The report of the Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Odisha finance minister Niranjan Pujari, on checking tax evasion by pan masala and gutkha trade can also be more likely to be taken up for dialogue, they stated.

A GoM on Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunals (GSTATs) was arrange in July final 12 months underneath the chairmanship of Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala.

The GoM has prompt that the tribunals ought to include two judicial members, and one technical member every from the Centre and states, in addition to a retired Supreme Court decide as president.