Anti-Profiteering Guidelines Under GST Likely by Next Mth Methodology to ascertain if rate cut benefits are passed on to consumers Days after tax rates of about 178 products under goods & services Tax (GST) were changed, the government could be looking to come out with detailed anti-profiteering guidelines, according to three people close to the development.The broad idea is to prescribe a methodology to ascertain whether companies are passing on the tax reduction under GST and benefits derived from input tax credits to consumers. The guidelines could come by December first week, according to the people in the know. Several experts — in the government and tax advisors — have been raising several hypothetical questions around the anti-profiteering clause of the GST. Can a company pass benefits of the recent GST rate reduction on one brand of bodywash to another brand of bodywash? Can the company cross subsidise reduction in GST rates in bodywash to something else it sells, s