GST Council meeting: Trace and curb of gutkha firms' tax evasion on agenda

GoM submits recommendations on taxing pan masala, gutka on manufacturing capacity

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is likely to take up in its upcoming meeting a group of ministers’ (GoM’s) report proposing strict measures to trace and curb tax evasion by pan masala and gutkha companies, a senior finance ministry official told Business Standard.

The Council had tasked the panel of state finance ministers, headed by Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari, with examining the feasibility of levying GST on some evasion-prone commodities such as pan masala and gutkha based on the installed capacity of their units rather than actual production.

The ministerial panel, which was constituted in May 2021,