Recommendations of GST council will benefit people: PM Modi

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the recommendations made by the GST Council will further benefit the people and add strength to the tax regime. Modi also said public participation was at the core of the government’s functioning and that all its decisions were “people-friendly and people-centric”.

“The recommendations made by the GST Council today will further benefit our citizens and add strength to the GST. These recommendations are in spirit of the continuous feedback we are getting from various stakeholders on GST,” he said on Twitter. The prime minister stressed that the government was working “tirelessly” for the country’s economic integration.

In the biggest GST rejig yet, tax rates on over 200 items, ranging from chewing gum to chocolates, to beauty products, wigs and wrist watches, were today cut to provide relief to consumers and businesses amid economic slowdown. The Council met in Assam’s Guwahati earlier in the day.