{"id":72472,"date":"2025-08-30T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:31:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:31:04","slug":"gst-council-meet-should-not-be-for-headline-grabbing-must-advance-cooperative-federalism-cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=72472","title":{"rendered":"GST Council meet should not be for headline grabbing, must advance cooperative federalism: Cong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST Council meet should not be for headline grabbing, must advance cooperative federalism: Cong<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 30-8-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Aug 30 (PTI) Opposition-ruled states have extended their support to cut the number of GST rate slabs and the rates for mass consumption items, while demanding a mechanism to ensure the benefits get passed on to consumers, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday.<br \/>\nHe also said the Congress hopes that next week&#39;s GST Council meeting would not be just a &#8220;headline-grabbing exercise so typical of the (Narendra) Modi government&#8221;. \tAccording to Ramesh, the eight opposition-ruled states have also demanded compensation to all states for a period of five years, with 2024-25 as the base year, since the<\/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=54070\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>ase year, since their revenues are bound to be adversely impacted by the rate cuts, Ramesh said.<br \/>\nThe eight opposition-ruled states have also called for additional levies on &#39;sin&#39; and luxury goods over and above the proposed 40% be fully transferred to states, he said, adding the Centre gets close to 17-18% of its revenue from various cesses that are not shared with the states.<br \/>\nThe Congress leader stressed that these demands are perfectly legitimate and are bolstered by recent papers published by the Union Finance Ministry&#39;s own National Institute of Public Finance &#038; Policy (NIPFP).<br \/>\nAccording to him, the Congress has for long been demanding a GST 2.0 that not only reduces rate slabs and cuts rates but also brings about drastic simplificat<\/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=54070\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST Council meet should not be for headline grabbing, must advance cooperative federalism: CongGSTDated:- 30-8-2025PTINew Delhi, Aug 30 (PTI) Opposition-ruled states have extended their support to cut the number of GST rate slabs and the rates for mass co<\/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-72472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72472","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=72472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}