BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has been opposing majority stake for private entities in GSTN and has already written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi objecting to this.

It is the council's responsibility to have one uniform rate of GST tax to be introduced all over India. It will also decide the threshold for levy of the tax, as well as the dispute resolution mechanism.

The GST council will be responsible for deciding various issues including the GST tax rate and how the new tax regime will function. The council will be headed by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and members will comprise of state Finance Ministers.

The first meeting of the newly constituted GST Council, which will decide on the rates, exemption and threshold, will be held on September 22 and 23

He pointed out that it is GST Council's responsibility to have one uniform rate of GST tax to be introduced all over India.

The GST Council will decide, among other things, the goods and services tax (GST) rate and prepare a model Bill for operationalisation of the new tax regime.

The officers of the Mumbai airport customs Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) on Thursday intercepted six passengers arriving from Bangkok and seized 24 pieces of gold weighing 4.681 kilograms worth Rs 1.36 crore.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said the government was running against time in implementing the Goods and Services Tax (GST) by April 1, 2017

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday (September 8, 2016) gave his assent to the landmark Goods and Services Tax bill. The GST Bill has become an Act.

The two consignments in which collectively 539 old coins from Pakistan were seized some time ago by the Land Customs Station at Attari had have now turned out to be priceless antiques of various eras.

Senior customs officials said that this is yet another measure in a series of trade facilitation initiatives taken by the government recently to help businesses cut transaction costs.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi for enacting the Goods and Service Tax bill, describing it "as an example of bold policy in an otherwise difficult global economic scenario".

The townhall type meeting is part of a massive outreach programme planned by the Revenue Department in the Finance Ministry. Already radio jingles have started playing and plans are afoot to begin social media publicity

The court had earlier passed an order on 18 July and directed Mallya and Agarwal to be present for the court hearings in the service tax department case. However, Mallya’s counsel had filed an exemption plea.

Speaking on the resolution, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said that the GST will have a very positive impact and states including Rajasthan will get advantages.

Odisha Assembly passed the Bill unanimously. With this, the minimum requirement of 50 per cent of states and UTs ratifying the Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill has been completed. The President can now notify the GST Council,

According to representation made at the meeting, companies like Flipkart, Amazon India and Snapdeal are only ‘service providers’ to the vendors and as such are liable to pay GST only on service income.

With this, 50 per cent of States have passed the Bill, paving way for the presidential assent, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said.

After supporting the bill in Parliament, the Mamata regime had listed it for discussion on Monday and withdrawing it shows political opportunism. To claim that the Centre is crushing the federal structure is far from the truth

Both the houses unanimously passed a resolution ratifying the GST Bill (122nd Constitution Amendment Bill, 2014). In the state assembly, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao hailed the passing of unanimous resolution and said this would set a good precedent.

Mizoram Assembly today (August 30, 2016) ratified the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Constitutional Amendment bill by adopting an official resolution, becoming 13th state to have approved the legislation

Thirteen states – Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Telangana and Mizoram have already ratified the Bill.

FICCI, CII and Assocham are meeting the state finance ministers to highlight concerns raised by several sectors. These sectors include, IT & ITES, financial services, e-commerce, renewable and energy sectors.

Gold in the form of assorted jewellery and bars totally amounting to Rs 65 lakh, which was lying abandoned in plastic bundles in the rear toilet of Air India flight upon its landing at the Dabolim airport.

Parliament has to pass legislation on Central GST and Integrated GST , which will pave way for the Goods and Services Tax, to be approved within November or by early December.

Both Houses of the Maharashtra Legislature met today (August 29, 2016) for a special one day session to approve the Constitution (122nd Amendment) (Goods and Services Tax) Bill, passed by Parliament earlier this month.

Haryana Vidhan Sabha Monday (August 29, 2016) unanimously ratified the Constitution Amendment Bill on Goods and Services Tax amendment during the ongoing monsoon session.

The West Bengal government has postponed a House debate on the GST bill indefinitely. According to a Trinamool Congress functionary, the debate scheduled for August 29, before passing the legislation, was deferred after the Centre's notification to monitor state treasuries was issued.

Introducing the bill, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Kiyanilie Peseyie said the revenue of the state would go up as tax evasion would be checked due to transparency and broadening of tax base. 

The DRI sleuths carried out the search of a container at Container Freight Station in New Manali near Chennai. The consignment was sent by a Singapore-based private firm-BLPL to a local importer- Thivya Agencies

The ratification of the bill comes in quick succession after the Chhattisgarh assembly passed it unanimously on Monday.Himachal, Assam, Jharkhand and Bihar state assemblies have also passed the Bill.

With seven states ratifying the landmark legislation, it’s close to its halfway mark of the requirement ratification by at least 16 states before it can be sent for presidential assent.

The President said that collection of revenue was a very important responsibility of the State. The job of the officers was to facilitate the State in collection of revenue so that the Government could get its due share of revenue.

Before Chhattisgarh, Himachal, Assam, Jharkhand and Bihar became the first four states to pass the bill. In New Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party government only last week said it will place the GST Bill for ratification

DRI officers mounted vigil on passengers travelling by the Air India Express flight flying in the Kuala Lumpur – Chennai – Tiruchi- Singapore and seized 3.986 kilograms of smuggled gold bars and foreign currencies at Tiruchi airport on 16th August, 2016.

The Bihar Assembly on Tuesday (August 16, 2016)  unanimously passed the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill at a special session. This makes Bihar the second state after Assam and first non NDA state to pass the Bill, recently passed by Parliament.

“Assam will be remembered as the first state in the country to ratify the GST constitutional amendment bill,” Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal told news agency ANI.

The newspapers are saying the passage of the GST Bill is a historic day for the country, a game changer for all of us. But you are all local political workers. What are your views?

Political parties showed rare unanimity in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday to pass a bill that amends the Constitution to enable the Goods and Services Tax or GST, India's biggest tax reform ever. Only the AIADMK opposed it and staged a walkout.

Marking an end to the long and tumultuous debate on GST, the Rajya Sabha today i.e. on August 3, 2016, approved the crucial 122nd Constitutional amendment to turn the bill into law. The Lok Sabha had already passed the key bill

As the GST reaches its final stages, the historic legislation promises to unify the tax system for the nation and increase the GDP by 2 per cent.

The Delhi Assembly on Wednesday (August 24,2016) ratified the Goods and Services Tax bill with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia stating that it was the biggest tax reform in India.