The
Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley launched a mobile app “GST Rates Finder”
in his chamber in the national capital yesterday which is now available on
android platform and will soon be available on iOS platform as well. This Mobile
app helps users to find rates of GST for various Goods and Services. It can be
downloaded on any smart phone and can work in offline mode, once downloaded.
The user can determine the GST rate for a good or a service by entering the
name or Chapter heading of the commodity or service. The search result will list
all the Goods and Services containing the name which was typed in the Search Box.
The user can scroll down the list of description and when any specific item on the
list is clicked, the display window will pop-up, containing details such as GST
rate, description of goods or services and the Chapter heading of the Harmonised
System of Nomenclature (HSN). For example, any person who has been billed by a
hotel or a restaurant or for footwear can cross verify the correctness of the rate
of GST charged.
CBEC
has also provided a GST rate finder on its portal cbec-gst.gov.in to help the taxpayers know the applicable GST rate on
their supplies of goods and services. A taxpayer can search for applicable
CGST, SGST, UTGST rate and Compensation Cess on a supply. The search can be
made based on description of goods or services or HSN Chapter or section or
heading number.
These
initiatives are aimed to serve as a ready reckoner on GST rates. This will empower
not only the taxpayers, but every citizen of the nation, to ascertain the
correct GST rate on goods and services.
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