Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi (MS)

New Delhi, Jul 17: Starting tomorrow, the commoner will have to spend more on daily consumables, bank services, healthcare and hotels. From Monday, July 18 the revised GST rates by the GST board led by union finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman will be applicable.

The notification to this effect has already been released by the Central Indirect Taxes and Customs Board on Thursday itself. Many goods and services will be dearer from July 18.

The goods and services that will be costlier include packed curds, lassi, buttermilk, Atlas maps, charts, hotel rooms which cost less than Rs 1000 per day, fee charged by banks for cheque book or cheque leaf, room of hospitals which charge more than Rs 5000 per day (except ICU), LED lights and lamp, scissor having blade, paper knife, pencil sharpener, blades, spoons, fork, skimmer, cake server, water lifting pump, turbine pump fixed to borewells, submersible pump, bicycle pump, sowing seeds, grains, machines used in mills or used for siri grains.

The defence equipment for armed forces, ropeway ferrying goods and passengers, splints, artificial organs of the human body and parts that will be fixed inside the human body will become cheaper.