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GST Council approves draft Compensation Bill

Kashmir Times. Dated: 2/19/2017 12:10:53 AM

New Delhi, Feb 18 (Agencies): The GST Council, in a meeting on Saturday, cleared the law for compensating states for loss of revenue that they may incur during implementation of of Goods and Service Tax.
The states and the Centre met in Udaipur to vet the draft supporting legislations crucial for the implementation of the GST.
The council’s nod has paved the way for the law to be tabled in Parliament in the second half of the budget session beginning 9 March, as well as for the states to pass the bill in the respective state assembly. ”It's essential that enabling laws for GST are passed in 2nd half of Budget Session to ensure rollout from July 1”, said the FM.
The 10th meeting of the GST council, however, did not discuss the anti-profiteering clause, Jaitley added. The Council will meet again on March 4-5, and is likely to approve C-GST, I-GST and S-GST laws at its next meeting on March 4-5: “One major meeting of GST Council is required to give approval to putting goods and services in different tax slabs”, added Jaitley.