2 Groups of Ministers constituted on incentivizing digital payments, imposition of Cess on Sugar under GST

New Delhi, May 7 (KNN) The GST Council has constituted two group of Ministers to consider the issues relating to “Incentivizing digital payments in the GST regime” & “Imposition of Cess on Sugar under GST”.

“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.

Both the GoMs shall submit their reports within a period of 15 days.