Budget: Realty sector eyes lower GST, infra status
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Dated:- 15-1-2018
Mumbai, Jan 14 (PTI) Severely impacted by various reforms like RERA, GST and demonetisation, the realty sector is pinning its hopes on Budget 2018-19 for relief measures like lower taxes and infrastructure status.
The year 2017 was an eventful one for the sector with many structural policy reforms, which resulted in a significant decline in home launches to 1,03,570 units compared to 1,75,822 in 2016.
Industry players are expecting rationalisation of the GST rates from the current 12 per cent to 6 per cent and bringing stamp duty under the ambit of GST.
"Also, industry status to the full real estate sector will help in creating surplus housing dem
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g Managing Director and CEO Brotin Banerjee said, "We look forward to seeing the additional stamp duty and registration on properties be reduced or merged with GST. A reduction of the taxes and add-on costs, inclusive of brokerage, on under-construction properties, will also ease the financial burden from a consumer perspective."
Apart from GST, infrastructure status to the entire sector tops the list of their expectations from the budget.
"Real estate sector should be allotted infrastructure status, which will lead to construction funds being available to the developer at much lower interest rates.
"This will eventually benefit EWS and LIG customers, as the developers would be in a position of making the projects rea
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