The consensus was reached after the Centre agreed to the demand of states to go in for horizontal split
Higher costs of car inventories, missing sales targets and manufacturer expectations, and soaring rentals, are eating into dealers' margins.
Aimed at creating a single tax for goods and services across the country, government on Friday introduced the long-pending GST Bill in the Lok Sabha for roll-out of the new regime from April 2016 subsuming various levies like entry tax and octroi.
ATF price in Delhi was reduced by Rs 4,765.5 per kilolitre (kl), or 11.9 per cent.
The government's focus on road, rail and power development will indirectly benefit the FMCG industry in the long run.
This increase excludes local levies. The actual hike after considering VAT would be Rs 2.84 per litre in Delhi for petrol and Rs 2.11 for diesel.
The states have unanimously pitched for sole administrative powers to carry out assessment, scrutiny and enforcement for entities up to an annual turnover of Rs 1.5 crore.
The price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) was on cut by Rs 21 per cylinder and that of jet fuel (ATF) by a steep 3 per cent on the back of falling international oil rates.
This will violate the time-honoured convention that a government elected for a five-year tenure presents only five full Budgets, but the NDA government will no doubt present it as yet another initiative of Mr Modi.
'What has taken the government so long to understand what the people of this country are going through?'
ICICI Infotech outsmarted Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro to get the mandate from states for setting up a national tax information exchange system (Tinxsys) to track inter-state transactions and check tax evasion.
The government on Wednesday said it would phase out Central Sales Tax by April 2007, a move that may lead Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states to reconsider their decision of not implementing value-added tax.
No immediate comment was available from airlines on the impact of the price hike on passenger fares.
Jaitley said the government has created transparent environment.
Tobacco will be subjected to the highest tax slab of 28 per cent and an additional cess. The current rates of taxation on cigarettes and chewing tobacco are about 64 per cent and 81 per cent, respectively.
According to various senior UB Group officials, the strategy of 14 power brands' focus is expected to be rolled out soon.
Across 10 prominent services, revenue to the government reduced by 20 per cent in the first year of GST compared to the last year of the service tax regime. This happened despite tax liability against these services growing by 50 per cent in one year.
ATF or jet fuel price has been cut marginally while rate of non-subsidised cooking gas LPG has been hiked by Rs 27.50 a cylinder.
Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's wish to levy indirect tax on petrol unlikely to be taken up
The sops being given to the IT firms in metro cities should be extended to companies in tier 2 and 3 cities as it will generate greater employment opportunities and boost growth, industry body Nasscom has said.
Britain is due to leave the European Union by October 31, with Johnson racing against time to strike a deal to meet that deadline.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The hikes, effective from midnight tonight, are excluding state sales tax or VAT and actual increase will be higher and will vary from city to city
The 12th Finance Commission on Monday held a meeting with leading economists and economic administrators in Chennai to elicit their views on current issues concerning inter-governmental resource transfers.\n\n\n\n
Ruling out the implementation of value-added tax from June 1, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh on Wednesday announced several excise duty concessions on edible oil and textiles.
According to DBS, GST has growth, inflation and fiscal implications.
