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GST collection at Rs 1.55 lakh crore in January, second highest-ever

The revenues in the current financial year up to January 2023 are 24% higher than the GST revenues during the same period last year.

Think twice before tax fraud, the authorities are on to you with AI

Post-GST rules have created a host of tax evasion methods. But the tax department has new tricks up their sleeve

Why Oxfam report on inequality in India doesn’t add up — old data, unlikely tax burden on poor

It's hard to reconcile how bottom half of population makes up 64% of taxes on food & non-food items when most are either exempt, bought once in a few years, or not bought by poor.

GST Council agrees to decriminalise certain offences, doubles limit for launching prosecution

Council members agreed to raise the threshold of launching prosecution to Rs 2 crore from the present Rs 1 crore & GST on husk of pulses was reduced to 0 from 5 per cent.

Why Kanpur traders protested over Yogi’s GST raids — ‘heavy fine for discrepancy of even Re 1’

Kanpur: The anger that was simmering among traders in Uttar Pradesh after the Yogi Adityanath government launched state-wide goods and services tax (GST) raids...

GST collection rises by 16.6% to Rs 1.52 lakh cr in Oct, second highest ever

Previously, GST collection touched a record high of roughly Rs 1.68 lakh crore in April this year. In October last year, the revenues stood at over Rs 1.30 lakh crore.

Hijab has bench in a tangle & why aloo paratha fans are fretting over GST

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Gujarat’s gung-ho about garba after 2-yr hiatus, but organisers, patrons peeved about 18% GST

BJP govt in state had defended the GST on tickets, saying it's been prevalent since 2017. While some organisers are passing on the tax to patrons, others are finding ways to dodge it.

GST’s ‘give-and-take’ attitude has dried up. India needs a system overhaul

In 'The Working of the Indian Constitution', T.M. Thomas Isaac examines the functioning of GST to assess if its high expectations have been realised.

How Karza’s K:GST and K:ITR are making credit underwriting for SMEs simpler and faster

Karza Technologies is a part of Perfios Software Solutions and together they are the largest B2B SaaS provider for the BFSI fraternity.

On Camera

English didn’t enslave India. It was the harbinger of a new creative consciousness: A Ranganathan

Rabindranath Tagore stood apart from his contemporaries by infusing poetry and universalism into Indian nationalism, opposing chauvinism and blind obedience, wrote A Ranganathan in 1962.

Nodal officers to fast-tracking NOCs, Kerala govt’s heeding investor concerns, and it means business

As many as 21 policy reforms are under implementation following Invest Kerala Global Summit, as LDF govt works to change perception that the state is not conducive to businesses.

Army chief’s big warning to Pakistan: Stop sponsoring terrorism if you want to exist geographically

Amid continued concerns over cross-border terrorism, General Upendra Dwivedi further warned the neighbour that India will not show restraint if there is an Op Sindoor 2.0.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.