{"id":74500,"date":"2025-12-01T19:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:46:03","slug":"sc-seeks-centre-39-s-response-on-plea-concerning-gst-concession-on-car-purchase-by-persons-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=74500","title":{"rendered":"SC seeks Centre&#39;s response on plea concerning GST concession on car purchase by persons with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SC seeks Centre&#39;s response on plea concerning GST concession on car purchase by persons with disabilities<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 1-12-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Dec 1 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea which said the authorities have effectively extinguished the concessional Goods and Services Tax benefits on the purchase of cars by persons with disabilities.<br \/>\nA bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued notices to the Centre and others, including the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, seeking their replies on the plea within four weeks.<br \/>\n\u201cIssue notice, returnable within four weeks,\u201d it said while hearing the plea filed by a 100 per cent visually-impaired man.<br \/>\nThe plea, file<\/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=63269\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>ion of the concerned GST exemption certificate scheme.<br \/>\nThe plea said concessionary tax treatment for cars for persons with disabilities originated in 1999 when the Ministry of Heavy Industries granted a reduced excise duty rate for cars driven by or meant for differently-abled persons, which was further liberalised in 2007.<br \/>\nIt said that with the advent of the GST regime in 2017, the Ministry of Finance prescribed a concessional GST rate of 18 per cent for cars for differently-abled persons as against a higher rate for other cars, creating a distinct fiscal regime for such vehicles.<br \/>\nThe plea said the petitioner had applied online in December 2024 for a GST concession certificate under the GST exemption certificate scheme for purchasing a <\/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=63269\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC seeks Centre&#8217;s response on plea concerning GST concession on car purchase by persons with disabilitiesGSTDated:- 1-12-2025PTINew Delhi, Dec 1 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea which said the authori<\/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-74500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74500","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=74500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}