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The women students of the Silver Jubilee Degree College demanded scrapping of GST on sanitary napkins.

Finance Min justifies GST on sanitary pads, says it will protect...

In a statement clarifying its move, finance ministry said GST rate of 12 per cent is lesser than previous tax rate.

10 July 2017 8:05 PM IST

The government hopes to collect Rs 8.47 lakh crore from direct taxes and Rs 7.79 lakh crore from indirect taxes, which includes customs, excise and service tax, in 2016-17 fiscal.

Now use CBDT mobile app to pay taxes, apply for PAN

This app is one the many steps taken by CBDT to provide better taxpayer services and reduce grievances.

10 July 2017 6:40 PM IST

Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya

EPFO adds over 1 crore new subscribers in 2017: Dattatreya

EPFO, which started investing in ETFs in August 2015, currently has a corpus of over Rs 8 lakh crore.

10 July 2017 5:58 PM IST

Traders are exploring innovate ideas to beat GST norms.

Erode traders protest GST on textiles; strike on for 5th day

Traders claimed they had incurred a loss of Rs 150 crore due to stir and that there were huge stocks of unsold textiles.

10 July 2017 5:23 PM IST

Union minister for finance Arun Jaitley and revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia during the16th GST Council meeting in New Delhi on Sunday (Photo: AP)

No GST on Rs 50,000 worth gifts from employer: Finance Ministry

However, ministry clarifies gifts worth more than Rs 50,000 in a year fall under ambit of GST.

10 July 2017 5:03 PM IST

70% of the complaints about overpricing on the pretext of GST are from semi-urban and rural areas which have lower levels of awareness.

GST confusions: Here are 5 pointers to clear doubts

Goods and Services Tax, rolled out on July 1 fostered a lot of doubts in minds of customers, traders and businessmen.

10 July 2017 2:57 PM IST

The AP government brought in a registration system for the liquor business to avoid GST.

Telangana tweaks rule, pays no GST on booze licences

AP reduced licence fee to Rs 800 crore, remaining Rs1,000 crore collected as non-refundable registration fee'.

10 July 2017 1:20 AM IST

70% of the complaints about overpricing on the pretext of GST are from semi-urban and rural areas which have lower levels of awareness.

All Telangana traders to get GST push

TS will itself register errant traders.

10 July 2017 1:11 AM IST

The G20 ministers face calls to take action to boost job-creating investment and fight off rising protectionist sentiment, including Britains threatened pullout from the European Union.

India gets G20 praise on startup funding, derivative reforms

The summit noted that India is popularising a number of derivative instruments in exchanges or electronic trading...

9 July 2017 6:32 PM IST

Cash is back in the circulation as cashless transaction takes a backseat soon after the implementation of the Goods and Service Tax (GST).

FPI inflows at USD 23-bn in H1-2017

In comparison, FPIs had invested about USD 1.2 billion (Rs 7,600 crore) in first half of 2016.

9 July 2017 6:06 PM IST

Genting Dream cruise ship

Exempt cruise tourism under GST regime: Shipping Min

At present, cruise tourism is not taxed and shipping ministry wants to keep it out of the GST regime to boost industry.

9 July 2017 5:16 PM IST

Experts have said that ingesting water containing more than 0.07 parts per billion coal ash over the course of a lifetime created a one-in-a-million chance of causing cancer. (Photo: Pixabay)

NITI Aayog roots for methanol-from-coal in place of LPG

Coal with high ash content can be converted into methanol and can be used as cooking gas in place of LPG.

9 July 2017 4:55 PM IST