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Change 28% slab to 18%: Amit Mitra

Mitra argued that the consumer items under the 18 per cent bracket should be brought under the 12 per cent

Amit Mitra
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Amit Mitra

Ishita Ayan Dutt Kolkata
West Bengal Finance Minister, Amit Mitra has written to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to change the 28 per cent bracket to 18 per cent for all items except cigarettes and other tobacco items under the goods and services tax (GST) regime.

The letter, contents of which were tweeted by the Trinamool Congress, mentioned that many household consumer items had fallen under the 28 per cent GST bracket. Mitra argued that the 28 per cent bracket should be changed to 18 per cent. He also said that the consumer items under the 18 per cent bracket should be brought under the

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