GST Council eases compliance norms, raises prosecution threshold and curbs inspections
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- ✓The 57th GST Council meeting cleared reforms to ease compliance and reduce physical inspections.
- ✓Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the measures were "aimed at making GST administration more taxpayer-friendly." The Council raised the prosecution threshold to ₹5 crore and cut general penalties, helping many businesses get faster refunds and relief.
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- India Economy
The 57th GST Council meeting has cleared a slew of process reforms to ease compliance, speed up refunds and reduce physical intervention by tax officials, a year after the government simplified the GST rate structure.
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the latest measures focused on processes rather than rates and were aimed at making GST administration more taxpayer-friendly.
A key change is the proposed removal of arrest powers under GST provisions. The Council has also recommended raising the prosecution threshold from ₹1 crore to ₹5 crore. Cases involving amounts below ₹5 crore will not face prosecution.
The general penalty, where no specific penalty is prescribed, will be cut from ₹25,000 to ₹10,000. The Council has also proposed a ₹10,000 monetary threshold for issuing notices, along with the withdrawal of pending notices below the threshold.
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