{"id":73074,"date":"2025-09-04T19:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:16:03","slug":"gst-rate-cuts-complement-ayushman-bharat-pmjay-says-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=73074","title":{"rendered":"GST rate cuts complement Ayushman Bharat, PMJAY, says health ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST rate cuts complement Ayushman Bharat, PMJAY, says health ministry<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 4-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Sep 4 (PTI) The government&#39;s decision to exempt individual health and life insurance premiums from Goods and Services Tax (GST) complements Ayushman Bharat and PMJAY by expanding private coverage, reducing out-of-pocket expenditure, and driving the mission of Health for All, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.<br \/>\nThis will also make premiums more affordable for middle-class households and encourage wider insurance adoption.<br \/>\nThe GST rationalization package reflects a balanced, citizen-centric approach to taxation, the ministry stated.<br \/>\n&#8220;By lowering the burden on medicines, medical devices, nutrition, and insurance, while dis<\/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=54655\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>nd empower small businesses across the country. My heartfelt gratitude to Narendra Modi ji and Finance Minister @nsitharaman ji for this forward-looking decision that will benefit our citizens, especially middle-class families,&#8221; Union Health Minister J P Nadda tweeted.<br \/>\nThe GST on essential medicines have been reduced from 12 per cent to 5 per cent or Nil, easing financial burden on patients which will provide greater affordability for long-term treatment of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, and cancer.<br \/>\nAlso, services for treatment or disposal of bio-medical waste reduced from 12 per cent to 5 per cent and job-work in pharmaceutical manufacturing reduced from 12 per cent to 5 per cent, lowering production costs and addressi<\/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=54655\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST rate cuts complement Ayushman Bharat, PMJAY, says health ministryGSTDated:- 4-9-2025PTINew Delhi, Sep 4 (PTI) The government&#8217;s decision to exempt individual health and life insurance premiums from Goods and Services Tax (GST) complements Ayushman Bhar<\/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-73074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73074","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=73074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}