{"id":73581,"date":"2025-09-20T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:46:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:46:03","slug":"gst-39-disparity-39-poses-threat-to-survival-of-corrugated-box-makers-industry-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=73581","title":{"rendered":"GST &#39;disparity&#39; poses threat to survival of corrugated box makers: Industry association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST &#39;disparity&#39; poses threat to survival of corrugated box makers: Industry association<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 20-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Kolkata, Sep 20 (PTI) Corrugated box manufacturers have raised an alarm over a sharp inverted duty structure created after the rationalisation of GST rates, and claimed that more than 20,000 MSMEs in this packaging segment are at risk of closure.<br \/>\nWhile GST on corrugated paperboard boxes has been reduced from 12 per cent to 5 per cent, the rate on its primary raw materials, kraft paper and board, has been raised from 12 per cent to 18 per cent, they said.<br \/>\nEastern India Corrugated Box Manufacturers said the recent GST revisions have created a severe imbalance.<br \/>\n&#8220;This disparity leaves a 13 per cent burden on the indus<\/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=56307\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>acturers sought their customers&#39; understanding, as this disparity will &#8220;inevitably lead to a 5-7 per cent rise in the cost of boxes&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe association also flagged that cumbersome refund processes, discouragement of automation and barriers to new investment will undermine the government&#39;s &#8220;Made in India&#8221; and &#8220;Vocal for Local&#8221; initiatives.<br \/>\n&#8220;We request the government to restore parity on GST rates on corrugated boxes with paper and boards, so that the industry remains viable and continues to support essential supply chains nationwide,&#8221; the statement said.<br \/>\nIt stressed that restoring GST rate parity would not impact government revenue, as both inward and outward supplies in the sector are business-to-business transactions where input tax cred<\/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=56307\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST &#8216;disparity&#8217; poses threat to survival of corrugated box makers: Industry associationGSTDated:- 20-9-2025PTIKolkata, Sep 20 (PTI) Corrugated box manufacturers have raised an alarm over a sharp inverted duty structure created after the rationalisation of<\/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-73581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73581","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=73581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}