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No GST on these food items if sold loose, Says Nirmala Sitharaman

by TLN Team July 19, 2022July 19, 2022
written by TLN Team July 19, 2022July 19, 2022
No GST on these food items if sold loose, Says Nirmala Sitharaman

A list of food items that are exempt from GST was published by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday, but only if they are sold loose and not packaged or labelled beforehand.

Pulses/daal, wheat, rye, oats, maize, rice, aata/flour, suji/rawa, besan, puffed rice, and curd/lassi are a few examples of these.

The new GST rates that went into effect on Monday were clarified by the minister in a series of tweets. The action follows the adjournment of Lok Sabha sessions on Tuesday due to opposition demonstrations against GST rates and price increases.

Sitharaman defended the imposition of 5 per cent GST on food articles in her tweets and said that the decision was unanimous by the GST Council and all states were present in GST Council meeting when this issue was presented by the Group of Ministers on Rate Rationalisation on June 28, 2022.

She said that this isn’t the first time that such food articles are being taxed. “States were collecting significant revenue from foodgrain in the pre-GST regime. Punjab alone collected more Rs 2,000 cr on food grain by way of purchase tax. UP collected Rs 700 cr.”

Explaining the GST, she said that when GST was rolled out, a GST rate of 5 per cent was made applicable on branded cereals, pulses, flour. Later this was amended to tax only such items which were sold under registered brand or brand on which enforceable right was not foregone by supplier.

However, she said that soon there was rampant misuse of this provision by reputed manufacturers and brand owners and gradually GST revenue from these items fell significantly.

“This was RESENTED by suppliers and industry associations who were paying taxes on branded goods. They wrote to the Govt to impose GST uniformly on all packaged commodities to stop such misuse. This rampant evasion in tax was also observed by States,” Sitharaman said in a tweet.

The minister wrote that the Fitment Committee which consisted of officers from Rajasthan, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Haryana and Gujarat had also examined this issue over several meetings and made its recommendations for changing the modalities to curb misuse.

“It is in this context that the GST Council in its 47th meeting took the decision. With effect from July 18, 2022, only the modalities of imposition of GST on these goods was changed with no change in coverage of GST except 2-3 items,” she said.

“It has been prescribed that GST on these goods shall apply when supplied in “pre-packaged and labelled” commodities attracting the provisions of Legal Metrology Act,” the minister said.

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