'Bold, people friendly': Swadeshi Jagran Manch, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh hail GST reforms
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Dated:- 4-9-2025
PTI
New Delhi, Aug 4 (PTI) RSS affiliates on Thursday hailed reduction in GST rates as “bold and people-friendly” reforms under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's “visionary” leadership, and said it will encourage domestic industries, empower MSMEs and strengthen the foundation for making India self-reliant.
GST rates on common use items ranging from hair oil to corn flakes, TVs, and personal health and life insurance policies were slashed after the GST Council on Wednesday approved a complete overhaul of the tangled Goods and Services Tax regime.
The GST Council approved rate overhaul by limiting slabs to 5 per cent and
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have a multiplier effect on (India's) GDP,” he said.
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) general secretary Ravindra Himte said it's a “significant step” towards a “people-friendly and common man tax structure”.
Traditionally, the indirect tax regime was “heavily reliant” on taxing day-to-day needs of the citizens, he said.
“This trend has now been reversed through the next-gen reforms which introduce a primarily two-rate GST system aimed at reducing the tax burden on people, while imposing higher taxes on luxury goods consumed by the high-income group,” he added.
“We hope that manufacturers, insurance companies and others will promptly pass on the benefits (of GST rate cuts) to the common man by lowering the prices of essential daily-use
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