GST Council to meet on Jun 12 to discuss tax cut on COVID essentials, black fungus medicine
The Hindu
Some state Finance Ministers in the GoM are understood to have pitched for a rate cut on COVID essentials.
The all-powerful GST Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, will meet on June 12 to decide on GST rate cut for COVID essentials and black fungus medicine, according to officials. In the previous meeting on May 28, the Council, which has state ministers as members, a Group of Ministers (GoM) was set up to recommend tax relief on COVID essentials, including PPE kits, masks and vaccines, to the GST council. The GoM submitted its report on June 7.More Related News

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