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Central GST Bill to apply pan-India except J&K for now
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SME Times News Bureau | 28 Mar, 2017
India moved a step closer to becoming a unified market in line with the
federalist vision of the architects of its Constitution with the tabling
in Parliament on Monday of the GST Bill, which extends pan-India except
to Jammu and Kashmir.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
introduced the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Bill, 2017, along
with three other related bills in the Lok Sabha.
The GST will
subsume various indirect levies of the Centre and states like service
tax, excise duty, octroi and value added tax (VAT).
The states will have to get the state GST Bills passed by their respective assemblies.
Jammu
and Kashmir will need to pass all four bills in its state assembly, on
account of its special powers on taxation under the Constitution.
Jammu and Kashmir is the only state in the country with powers to tax services.
State
Finance Minister Hasib Drabu had represented to the Empowered Committee
(EC) of State Finance Ministers on GST last year, following which the
EC agreed that GST will not be extended to the state in the current
form.
Drabu had submitted that the state's special taxation powers need to be protected while rolling out GST.
Given
Jammu and Kashmir's special status, of particular concern to the state
government is that once the new tax takes off, the GST Council becomes
more powerful than state legislatures, which requires to be resolved,
Drabu said.
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