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12-18% GST rate for most products

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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, at its meeting in Srinagar on Thursday, approved rates for about 1,200 items, boosting the chances of a July 1 roll-out and also sending a signal to the industry to be ready for the indirect tax regime.

Inabid to ensure that the GST was noninflationary, the Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and comprising representatives of other states, kept more than 81 per cent of the items in the tax bracket of 18 per cent orlower.

“We have approved rates for 1,211 items… Six categories are yet to be finalised.This will be taken up tomorrow (Friday), along with services,” said Jaitley.

The complete list of the rates for these items was released late at night.Friday will be the second day of the 14th meeting of the Council.On Thursday, it also approved eight of nine GST rules, sending one to the legal committee for vetting.

Taking into consideration food consumed by the poor, food grain and milk have been exempted from taxes.Cereals will be taxed at 5 percent.About 60 per cent of the items will be in either the 12 per cent or 18 per cent tax brackets.

Only 19 per cent of the items will be in the 28 per cent slab, the highest rate. “Revenue neutrality will be maintained.There is no increase in the tax rate for most items.

In fact, for many commodities, the rate has come down as the cascading tax will be lowered,” said Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia.He added evasion would be checked
and tax buoyancy would goup.Coal will be taxed at 5 per cent, against the current 11.7 per cent, but there will be an additional cess.

Hair oil and toothpaste will be taxed at 18 per cent, lower than the current tax incidence of about 2324 per cent. Sugar, tea, coffee and edible oil will be taxed at 5 per cent.All capital and intermediate goods will be in the 18 per cent tax slab, lower than the current 28 percent.“While food items and capital goods could be cheaper, there are many items in the 28 per cent bracket.

These will be costlier,” said Bipin Sapra, partner, EY.Pratik Jain of PwCIndia said the categorisation of rates at the fourdigit level will be a simplification in the tax structure over the current system.“It would help reduce litigation,” he added.With only six weeks to go for planned rollout of the GST, clarity on rates was crucial.

Business Standard New Delhi, 19th May 2017

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