{"id":73184,"date":"2025-09-11T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:31:03","slug":"kerala-bjp-chief-dismisses-left-govt-39-s-gst-revenue-loss-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=73184","title":{"rendered":"Kerala BJP chief dismisses Left govt&#39;s GST revenue loss claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala BJP chief dismisses Left govt&#39;s GST revenue loss claim<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 11-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Kottayam (Kerala), Sep 11 (PTI) Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday rejected the Left government\u2019s claim that the state would lose revenue after the central government cut GST rates.<br \/>\nHe said there would be no loss. Lower prices, he argued, would raise people\u2019s purchasing power and in turn boost Kerala&#39;s tax income.<br \/>\nState Finance Minister K N Balagopal had warned that the state could face an annual shortfall of Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 crore and demanded compensation.<br \/>\nAddressing a press conference here, Chandrasekhar countered that the real reason people were not feeling the benefits of GST reform was Kerala&#39;s unchecked p<\/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=55423\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>ed the income tax exemption limit to Rs 12 lakh.<br \/>\n&#8220;Taxes on medicines and food have been completely removed. Essential goods required to meet the basic needs of ordinary people have been brought under a five per cent tax rate,&#8221; Chandrasekhar said.<br \/>\nHe said if Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi have the courage, they should be ready to discuss these concessions.<br \/>\n&#8220;While the Centre is reviving the economy that had collapsed during 10 years of UPA rule and extending welfare-oriented reliefs, the benefits given by the Union government should not be denied to the people of Kerala,&#8221; the BJP leader said.<br \/>\nHe also said CM Vijayan&#39;s remark that Kerala&#39;s culture is not to vote for the BJP is deplorable.<br \/>\n&#8220;What has held b<\/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=55423\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala BJP chief dismisses Left govt&#8217;s GST revenue loss claimGSTDated:- 11-9-2025PTIKottayam (Kerala), Sep 11 (PTI) Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday rejected the Left government\u2019s claim that the state would lose revenue after the cent<\/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-73184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73184","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=73184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}