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Finance minister Nirmala credited GST reforms for ‘euphoric buying and selling” during the festive season while urging officials to make life simpler for honest taxpayers, without sparing the dishonest.
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) Saturday rolled out another trade facilitation measure merging 31 Customs Duty notifications into a consolidated one.
The Finance Ministry has called for suggestions from trade and industry on tax rate changes and ease of compliance expected in the Union Budget for the 2026-27 fiscal to be presented on February 1, 2026.
The sudden transfer of the Director (Investigation), GST, Punjab, has again brought into focus the tax evasion scam in the trade of iron and steel scrap in Punjab.
Private sector general insurers are beginning to pass on their unclaimed input tax credit (ITC) burden to distributors by trimming commissions and incentives across select product lines, in what industry sources describe as a cost-balancing move to cushion profitability pressures.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has requested the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) to extend the due date for filing Form GSTR-3B for the month or quarter ending September 2025 by one week.
The residents and taxpayers of Varthur, Balegere and Panathur localities, located close to tech hubs in Bengaluru, have written a letter to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah demanding that the government provide good public infrastructure and then only collect taxes.
Leading members of the Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday, where the industry body sought regularisation of past goods and services tax (GST) dues arising from interpretational ambiguities since the introduction of GST in 2017.
The government will run the Employees’ Enrolment Campaign (EEC) campaign to bring more workers in the organised sector under the social security coverage of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO).
The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested a Senior Account Officer and Assistant Account Officer of the Central Goods and Services Tax for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000 from a nursery owner.