{"id":3421,"date":"2017-05-20T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T06:08:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T06:08:24","slug":"gst-fin-min-warns-industry-against-hiking-prices-arbitrarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=3421","title":{"rendered":"GST: Fin Min warns industry against hiking prices arbitrarily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST: Fin Min warns industry against hiking prices arbitrarily <br \/>GST<br \/>Dated:- 20-5-2017<br \/><BR>Srinagar, May 19 (PTI) With companies indicating a possible rise in prices on the Goods and Services Tax rollout from July 1, the finance ministry today warned India Inc against raising rates arbitrarily in anticipation of the GST.<br \/>\nThe tax department may invoke the anti-profiteering clause after the mechanism is put in place and may look into balance sheet of companies if they have gained from the GST and whether the benefits have been passed on to consumers.<br \/>\n&quot;The machinery for the anti-profiteering authority may not be ready at present but any change in prices will be called into questioned,&quot; Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said, a<\/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=18052\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST: Fin Min warns industry against hiking prices arbitrarily GSTDated:- 20-5-2017Srinagar, May 19 (PTI) With companies indicating a possible rise in prices on the Goods and Services Tax rollout from July 1, the finance ministry today warned India Inc against raising rates arbitrarily in anticipation of the GST. The tax department may invoke the anti-profiteering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=3421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GST: Fin Min warns industry against hiking prices arbitrarily&#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-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","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=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}