GST Council meet: Decriminalization of certain offence, tax rate on pulses husk, key decisions taken by GST Council
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, 17 December held the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council meet in national capital Delhi. The Group of Ministers (GoM), chaired by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, set up last year on the issue had submitted its report to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday. The GST Council on Saturday agreed to decriminalize certain offences and doubled the threshold for launching prosecution to ₹2 crore, Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra said.
