Petroleum products can be brought under GST if consensus reached: Sitharaman


New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said that if states arrive at a consensus, then petroleum products can be brought under the GST regime

Addressing a post-budget interactive session organised by industry body PHDCCI, she said that if the states agree, then petroleum products can be brought under the GST ambit.

The GST Council is scheduled to meet on February 18.

Meanwhile, the Finance Minister, during the interactive session with industry captains, said that the government, over the years, has striven to increase public expenditure, which she said would fuel growth.

Sitharaman further said that in the recently presented budget, the government has raised capital expenditure by 33 per cent to Rs 10 lakh crore.

 

  

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  • Deshbhakt, Mangalore

    Thu, Feb 16 2023

    Consensus ?? For NRA/RCC, DeMo, Art. 370 Abrogation, overnight Lockdown - you didn't need consensus ???!!! Now consus from who ?? Adani ? Ambani ??

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Raheja Waterfront

    Thu, Feb 16 2023

    Next Alcohol ...

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  • Harish Hegde, Mangalore/Saudi

    Wed, Feb 15 2023

    Very rude and a arrogant person I don't know how they made a finance minister, she is not fit to be a finance minister.

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  • Vinod Kumar, Mangalore

    Wed, Feb 15 2023

    Then how petroleum products are costing so high which is raising inflation in the country. My gas bill shows GST charge. You mean double GST now for election expenses???.?…..This year operation Kamala is running budget deficit due to financier Adani’s business loss and people and businessmen leaving the with huge amount of money.

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  • Robert Rodrigues, Muscat

    Wed, Feb 15 2023

    @Vinod Kumar, Adani is not in loss, but he shows that he is in loss because he wants to swallow people's tax money and bank loans. These are the tricks of cheating the common people

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