Inverted duty correction on GST Council's agenda in next week's meeting

GST Council may discuss easing of registration norms for e-sellers

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council in its upcoming two-day meeting is likely to take up the fitment committee’s recommendations which propose raising rates on certain goods and services, including LED lights, lamps, and leather, and also pruning exemptions on a host of items, including some packaged food products, said officials privy to the agenda for the meeting.

The Council may discuss adjusting and rectifying the inverted duty structure for certain items, including printing and drawing ink, they said.

Suggestions also include correcting the inverted duty structure for solar water heaters and systems, along with finished leather and composition leather and