GST Council Meeting 2021: Finance Minister is chairing the 44th GST Council virtually tomorrow
GST Council Meeting 2021: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is chairing the 44th good and services tax (GST) council meeting on Saturday, June 12, through video conferencing. According to the Ministry of Finance, the meeting is attended by Anurag Thakur, Minister of State for Finance, along with finance ministers and senior officials of the states and union territories. The meeting is expected to decide on tax cuts for COVID-19 essential items such as medical grade oxygen, hand sanitisers, pulse oximeters, ventilators, oxygen concentrators, as well as black fungus medicine. (Also Read: GST Council Meet: Tax Cut On COVID Essentials, Black Fungus Medicine On Agenda )
Finance Minister Smt. @nsitharaman chairing the 44th GST Council meeting via video conferencing in New Delhi today. MOS Shri. @ianuragthakur, Finance Ministers of States & UTs and Senior officers from Union Government & States are also present in the meeting. pic.twitter.com/ZpT5NVE3pD
— Ministry of Finance (@FinMinIndia) June 12, 2021
After the conclusion of the GST Council meeting, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will also conduct a media briefing on the outcomes of the Council meet at 2:30 pm in New Delhi, said the finance ministry.
In its previous meeting on May 28, the GST Council referred the decision over the tax rates on COVID vaccines to a group of ministers (GoM). The GST Council meeting will discuss the report of the GOM, headed by Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, on GST concessions on COVID-19 essential items, and decide on the final GST rates.
In the previous GST meeting, the tax was exempted on the import of Amphotericin B – the medicine used for the treatment of the black fungus infection. The 43rd GST council meeting on May 28 was conducted after a gap of almost eight months. The previous one – 42nd GST Council meeting, was held last year, on October 5, 2020.