{"id":1712,"date":"2016-11-03T17:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:50:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:20:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:50:58","slug":"four-tier-gst-rate-structure-of-5-12-18-28-percent-has-been-announced-by-the-gst-council-in-addition-to-zero-rated-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Four-tier GST rate structure of 5, 12, 18, 28 percent has been announced by the GST Council in addition to zero rated goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-tier GST rate structure of 5, 12, 18, 28 percent has been announced by the GST Council in addition to zero rated goods <br \/>GST<br \/>Dated:- 3-11-2016<br \/><BR>New Delhi: In the latest, four-tier GST rate structure of 5, 12, 18, 28 percent has been announced by the GST Council.<br \/>\nZero-tax rate will be applied to 50 percent of items in CPI basket, including foodgrains used by common man, says Arun Jaitley.<br \/>\n5% duty will be levied on mass consumption items used by common people; 2 Standard Rates of 12%, 18% will be there in GST, said he.<br \/>\nItems taxed at 30-31 percent (excise plus VAT) will be taxed at 28 percent, said Jaitley. Furthermore, additional revenue from highest tax slab is to be used to keep essential use items at 5% and transferring<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=16777\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-tier GST rate structure of 5, 12, 18, 28 percent has been announced by the GST Council in addition to zero rated goods GSTDated:- 3-11-2016New Delhi: In the latest, four-tier GST rate structure of 5, 12, 18, 28 percent has been announced by the GST Council. Zero-tax rate will be applied to 50 percent of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=1712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Four-tier GST rate structure of 5, 12, 18, 28 percent has been announced by the GST Council in addition to zero rated goods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}