The Ministry of Finance on Monday said that businesses with an annual turnover of up to Rs 40 lakhs are exempt from GST and those with a turnover up to Rs 1.5 crore can opt for the Composition Scheme and pay only one per cent tax,
 
Earlier, the GST exemption limit was Rs 20 lakh, the ministry said.
 
“Now, Businesses with an annual turnover of up to Rs 40 lakh are GST exempt. Initially, this limit was Rs 20 lakh.
 
Additionally, those with a turnover up to Rs 1.5 crore can opt for the Composition Scheme and pay only 1% tax,” the Ministry of Finance tweeted.
 
During last week In a series of tweets, the Ministry also informed that significant reliefs have been extended to the construction sector, particularly the housing sector which has been placed at the 5 per cent tax rate.
“Significant relief has been extended to the construction sector, particularly the housing sector.
 
It has now been placed at the 5% rate. GST on affordable housing has been reduced to 1%,” it added.
 
“Once GST was implemented, the tax rate on a large number of items was brought down. As of now, the 28% rate is almost solely restricted to sin and luxury items.
 
Out of a total of about 230 items in the 28% slab, about 200 items have been shifted to lower slabs,” the Ministry of Finance said in the following tweet.
 
The Ministry of Finance said that the taxpayer base has almost doubled since the rollout of GST.
 
“The numbers of assessee covered by the GST at the time of its inception were about 65 lakh. Now the assessee base exceeds 1.24 crore
 
All process in GST have been fully automated. Till now 50 crore returns have been filed online and 131 crore e-way bill generated,” it said in the following tweets.
 
The move comes as another relief for businesses across the country, which are dealing with the adverse effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
 
Earlier, the Central government had also announced an economic package to revive the economy but economy experts criticised the move that never given benefit to the common man and working migrants who been affected by the 4 hours notice given lock down period since march 25 2020
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But with short fall GST mounting  dues of about 1.5 Lakhs Crores Rupees  that centre owes  to the Indian states taken a new turn ., ie converting due  as loan met stringent opposition from 15 sates now  resulted in  perplex situation said TN state Government official who not wanted to be identified .
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Also he asked how in the pretext  annual turnover of up to Rs 40 lakhs are exempt from GST could help States recover dues   ?!..