Tue, Aug 27, 2024
News quoting sources. Finance Minister's statement on GST meeting. The report of the officers will be presented in the GST Council meeting. A report will come on rate rationalization of 12,000 items. After the GST Council, there will be a meeting of Ministers GOM. Know complete details in this video.
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Sat, Jun 22, 2024
She said a provision has already been made by former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley by including petrol and diesel into GST law. What is remaining is for the states to come together to discuss and decide on the rate of the levy.
Wed, Dec 28, 2022
Arun Jaitely 70th birth anniversary: Several ministers, such as Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal and Dharmendra Pradhan, are believed to have been his proteges.
Tue, Nov 14, 2017
On November 15, Jaitley will visit the Singapore Expo and deliver the keynote address at the Singapore Fintech Festival, a global event that draws over 10,000 participants.
Mon, Nov 13, 2017
Last month, the government had unveiled a whopping Rs 2.11-lakh crore two-year road map to strengthen NPA-hit public sector banks (PSBs), which includes recapitalisation bonds, budgetary support and equity dilution.
Sun, Nov 12, 2017
On November 10, the GST Council cut tax rates of over 175 products that were in the highest tax slab of 28% under the regime.
Sat, Nov 11, 2017
GST, which came into play on July 1, 2017, has four tax slabs - 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%. Almost 227 items were there in 28% GST slab, now only 50 remain, which are mostly luxury items, rest have been put in 18%.
On November 10, the GST Council cut tax rates of over 175 products that were in the highest tax slab of 28% under the regime. Currently only 50 items have been left in the 28% category out of a total of 227 items that were present earlier.
Wed, Nov 08, 2017
November 08,2017, comes as a very special day for PM Narendra Modi and his government has it marks the one year anniversary of their biggest reform "Demonetisation" or commonly known as notebandi.
About 6,857.82 million notes of Rs 1000 and 17,165.06 million notes of Rs 500 valuing separately Rs 685,782 crore and Rs 858,253 crore respectively were scrapped
On November 08, 2016, Modi scrapped high denomination notes namely Rs 500 and Rs 1000 - accounting 86% of India's currency. This event has been a hot topic since then across the country.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday declined to disclose all the facts that went into the decision to undertake demonetisation last year.
Tue, Nov 07, 2017
The government is working on launching the second phase of promoting digital payments from January, according to an official source.
In an overall analysis, Jaitley mentioned that it would not be wrong to say India has moved on to a much cleaner, transparent and honest financial system post demonetisation.
In the Union Budget 2017, the government has fixed direct collections target at Rs 9.8 lakh crore. So far, the govt has received Rs 4.39 lakh crore between April - October 2017.
Sat, Nov 04, 2017
The GST Council had announced several measures to ease problems faced by businesses last month.
Fri, Nov 03, 2017
The meeting assumes significance in the light of the recent government announcement of fund infusion in the public sector banks over a period of two years.
In June month, the cabinet among many recommendations under the 7CPC, also approved raising the minimum pay from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000 per month and fitment factor to 2.57 times.
Wed, Nov 01, 2017
Though it was only in May 2016 that effective action to consolidate state-owned banks struck headlines with six associate banks getting merged into State Bank of India in April 2017.
The World Bank on Tuesday said that India's ranking on the Ease of Doing Business rose 30 spots to stand at 100th position for the first time ever.
Tue, Oct 31, 2017
Buoyed by the jump in India's ease of doing business ranking, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today vowed to continue reforms that will help break into top 50 nations.
Latest ranking was announced by the World Bank Group’s latest Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs report.
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