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Topic: GST

Govt pitching simplified income tax regime but a basic complexity remains

Why is a doctor employed by a hospital and on salary taxed differently than a doctor who has opened their own practice?

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

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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.

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Moon madness has taken over modern dating. A waning crescent is the best time to ghost

Alongside buying into the grift that is dating apps, the girlies are also installing astrology apps like Astrotalk to investigate the same tired mystery—will he ever text back?

In NCLAT’s WhatsApp ruling, reminder of India’s cautious view of competition disputes involving Big Tech

WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.