{"id":73734,"date":"2025-09-22T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:01:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:01:02","slug":"reduced-gst-rates-have-sparked-wave-of-happiness-among-people-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=73734","title":{"rendered":"Reduced GST rates have sparked wave of happiness among people: Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reduced GST rates have sparked wave of happiness among people: Vaishnaw<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 22-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Sep 22 (PTI) The reduced GST rates on a wide array of items have ignited a &#8220;wave of happiness&#8221; among people, the BJP said on Monday and cited the higher tax rates on same products during the Congress-led government to slam its criticism of the GST reforms.<br \/>\n Hitting back at the Congress for its &#8220;Gabbar Singh Tax&#8221; barb at the GST, Union minister and BJP leader Ashwini Vaishnaw cited the prevalence of much higher rates during its government to wonder if such hugh taxation was like &#8220;Gabbar Singh ke bade dada&#8221; (the grandfather of Gabbar Singh).<br \/>\n Giving examples, he said the tax rates on cement, sanitary pad, paint, footwear,<\/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=56458\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduced GST rates have sparked wave of happiness among people: VaishnawGSTDated:- 22-9-2025PTINew Delhi, Sep 22 (PTI) The reduced GST rates on a wide array of items have ignited a &#8220;wave of happiness&#8221; among people, the BJP said on Monday and cited the high<\/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-73734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73734","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=73734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}