GST - GoMs constituted; Assam FM to head panel on CESS & Sushil Modi on digital payments
By TIOL News Service
NEW DELHI, MAY 04, 2018: IMMEDIATELY after the curtain was brought down at the 27th GST Council meeting, the two Groups of Ministers have been set up today to look into the issues of Incentivisation of Digital Payment and the imposition of Sugar CESS.
The first GoM shall consider the issues relating to “Incentivizing digital payments in the GST regime”. Mr Sushil Kumar Modi, Deputy Chief Minister, Bihar is convenor and other members of this GoM are Mr Nitinbhai Patel, Dy. Chief Minister, Gujarat; Capt. Abhimanyu, Excise & Taxation Minister, Haryana; Dr. Amit Mitra, Finance Minister, West Bengal and Mr Manpreet Singh Badal, Finance Minister, Punjab.
The Second GoM shall consider issues relating to “Imposition of Cess on Sugar under GST”. Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma, Finance Minister of Assam is convenor and other members of this GoM are Mr Rajesh Agrawal, Finance Minister, Uttar Pradesh; Mr Sudhir Mungatiwar, Finance Minister, Maharashtra; Mr D. Jayakumar, Minister for Fisheries and Personnel & Administrative Reforms, Tamil Nadu and Dr. T.M. Thomas Isaac, Finance Minister, Kerala.
Both the GoMs shall submit their reports within a period of 15 days.
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