14th GST council meet starts in Srinagar

TIL Desk/National/Srinagar/ The crucial 14th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting to finalise tax slabs on services and commodities in the country started here on Thursday. Chaired by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, this is the first time that such an important national policy-making meet is being held in Jammu and Kashmir.

Finance Ministers, Finance Secretaries and taxation officials of various states and union territories are participating in the two-day meeting being held at the Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) in Srinagar.

“Finance Ministers of Tripura, Mizoram, Sikkim and Nagaland may not attend the GST council meet today because of preoccupations in their states,” official sources said here.

Nearly 200 journalists, both foreign and Indian, were present in the meeting. The meeting which started at 10.30 a.m. will continue till 6.30 p.m. Jaitley will address a media conference on Friday about the council’s decisions.