New Delhi: The GST council, chaired by finance minister Arun Jaitley, has met 30 times and taken 918 decisions related to laws, rules and rates for the new tax regime in just over two years.
The goods and services tax (GST) council, which comprises state finance ministers and Union minister of state in charge of revenue as members, was set up on September 15, 2016, as the country’s first ‘federal institution’.
“More than 96 per cent of the decisions have been implemented through 294 notifications issued by the central government,” the ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The remaining decisions are in various stages of implementation. Almost equal number of corresponding notifications have been issued by states, it added.
The GST council has ushered in a new phase of cooperative federalism where the central and state governments work together to take collective decisions on all issues relating to indirect tax regime of the country, it said.
