{"id":72425,"date":"2025-08-26T15:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:01:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:01:04","slug":"gst-waiver-on-health-insurance-to-cost-bengal-rs-900-cr-annually-mamata-banerjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=72425","title":{"rendered":"GST waiver on health insurance to cost Bengal Rs 900 cr annually: Mamata Banerjee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST waiver on health insurance to cost Bengal Rs 900 cr annually: Mamata Banerjee<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 26-8-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Bardhaman, Aug 26 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the waiver of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on health insurance premiums, if implemented, will hit the state&#39;s exchequer by around Rs 900 crore annually.<br \/>\nIn a major GST rate rationalisation move, a proposal to exempt health insurance and a bulk of goods from GST is expected to come up when the GST Council meets early next month.<br \/>\nBanerjee said it was West Bengal that first pushed for a GST exemption on health insurance to make medical cover more affordable for the common people.<br \/>\n&#8220;The waiver of GST on health insurance premiums will cost Beng<\/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=53625\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST waiver on health insurance to cost Bengal Rs 900 cr annually: Mamata BanerjeeGSTDated:- 26-8-2025PTIBardhaman, Aug 26 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the waiver of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on health insurance premi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72425","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=72425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}