The Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML), the company set up by the state government for proper SWM has been exempted from paying 18 per cent GST to the state government.
This decision of exemption was taken at the 52nd GST council meeting held on October 7, in New Delhi. It was chaired by Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. At the meeting, a recommendation was made to exempt the services of water supply, public health, sanitation, conservancy, solid waste management and slum improvement and upgradation supplied to governmental authorities. The recommendation was accepted by the Council.
Commissioner for Commercial Taxes (Karnataka) Shikha C, confirmed the same to The New Indian Express and pure public service organisations have been exempted. On the query of the change in state contribution to the GST, she said, it is a state fund and now the decision has been taken to exempt government bodies.
Read more at : The New Indian Express
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