Two Group of Ministers ( GoM) has been constituted by the GST Council to consider the issues relating to implementation of Sugar Cess and Incentivizing digital payments in the GST regime. This is in terms with the Council’s decision made last week after the 27th meeting.
“Subsequent to the decisions taken in the 27th GST Council meeting held today (04.05.2018), two Group of Ministers (GoMs) have been constituted,” Ministry of Finance said in a statement.
The first GoM shall consider the issues relating to “Incentivizing digital payments in the GST regime”.
Sushil Kumar Modi, Deputy Chief Minister, Bihar is convenor and other members of this GoM are Nitinbhai Patel, Deputy Chief Minister, Gujarat; Capt. Abhimanyu, Excise & Taxation Minister, Haryana; Dr. Amit Mitra, Finance Minister, West Bengal and Shri Manpreet Singh Badal, Finance Minister, Punjab.
The Second GoM shall consider issues relating to “Imposition of Cess on Sugar under GST”.
Himanta Biswa Sarma, Finance Minister of Assam is convenor and other members of this GoM are Rajesh Agrawal, Finance Minister, Uttar Pradesh; Sudhir Mungatiwar, Finance Minister, Maharashtra; D. Jayakumar, Minister for Fisheries and Personnel & Administrative Reforms, Tamil Nadu and Dr. T.M. Thomas Isaac, Finance Minister, Kerala.
