The Council in its 14th meeting on May 18-19 decided to set up sectoral groups to better understand industry concerns as India moves towards the GST, which will subsume 16 different taxes including excise, service tax, VAT and other local levies.
These sectoral working groups consist of senior officers from the Centre and states and they will interact and examine representations received from trade and industry associations/ bodies of their respective sector.
Also, the groups will highlight specific issues for the smooth transition of the respective sector to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime and prepare sector-specific draft guidance.
"These 18 sectoral groups representing various sectors of the economy and containing senior officers of the Centre and states are being set up to ensure smooth implementation of GST by timely responding to the issues and problems of their respective sectors," a finance ministry statement said.
"These 18 sectoral groups representing various sectors of the economy and containing senior officers of the Centre and states are being set up to ensure smooth implementation of GST by timely responding to the issues and problems of their respective sectors," a finance ministry statement said.
S. No. | Sector | Central Government | State Government |
Name & Designation | Name & Designation | ||
1 | Banking, Financial & Insurance | Upender Gupta, Commissioner, GST Policy Wingh, CBEC | Dhananjay Akhade, Jt. Commissioner, Maharashtra |
2 | Telecom | Amitabh Kumar, Jt. Secretary (TRU-II), CBEC | Sh. Mukesh Kumar Meshram, CCT, Uttar Pradesh |
3 | Exports (incl EOUs and SEZs) | Dr. Tejpal Singh, ADG, DGEP, CBEC | Amitabh Jain, Principal Secretary, Chhattisgarh |
4. | IT & ITes | M. Vinod Kumar, Chief Commissioner, CBEC | Ms. Smaraki Mahapatra, CCT, West Bengal |
5 | Transport & Logistics | J.M. Kennedy, ADG, DRI, CBEC | Ms. Sujatha Chaturvedi, Pr. Secretary, Bihar |
6 | Textiles | Yogendra Garg, Commissioner, CBEC | Ms. Mona Khandhar, Secretary (EA), Gujarat |
7 | MSMEs (incl. job work) | Manish Sinha, Commissioner, CBEC & GST Council | H. Rajesh Prasad, Commissioner, VAT, Delhi |
8 | Oil & Gas (upstream & downstream) | P.K. Jain, Chief Commissioner, (AR), CBEC | Anurag Goel, CCT, Assam |
9 | Gems & Jewellery | Reyaz Ahmad, Director (TRU) | Dr. P.D. Vaghela, CCT, Gujarat |
10 | Services received and provided by Government | D.P. Nagendra Kumar, Pr. Commissioner, CBEC | Arun Mishra, Additional Secretary (CT) Bihar |
11 | Food Processing | Ajay Jain, Chief Commissioner, CBEC | Khalid Anwar, Sr. Jt. CCT, West Bengal |
12 | E-commerce | R. Sriram, Commissioner, CBEC | Ritvik Pandey, CCT, Karnataka |
13 | Big Infra (Airport & Sea ports including Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul, Power Sector, Housing and Construction) | Sandeep Prakash, Commissioner, CBEC | J. Syamala Rao, CCT, Andhra Pradesh |
14 | Travel & Tourism | Smt. Sungita Sharma, Pr. Commissioner, CBEC | Raghwendra Kumar Singh, CCT, Madhya Pradesh (Indore) |
15 | Handicrafts | Pradeep Goel, Commissioner, CBEC | Ms. Sangeetha P. CCT, Chhattisgarh |
16 | Media & Entertainment | M. Srinivas, Commissioner, CBEC | Omnarayan Chainsukhji Bhangdiya, Addl. Commissioner, Sales Tax, Maharashtra, Pune |
17 | Drugs & Pharmaceuticals | A.R.S. Kumar, Commissioner, CBEC | Dr. M.P. Ravi Prasad, Joint CCT, Karnataka |
18 | Mining | S.N. Singh, Chief, Commissioner, CBEC | Praveen Gupta, Secretary (Finance), Rajasthan |
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The other sectors which would be looked into by the group include IT and ITes, textiles, gems and jewellery, food processing, e-commerce, oil and gas, pharma and MSME.
The officials of these sectoral groups will deal with the issues of the respective sectors they represent.
"Concerned industry groups/associations or even individual industry representatives may approach the respective sectoral group officers with their problems relating to GST implementation who, in turn, will try to guide and help them in resolving the same," the statement said.
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This exercise will help in dealing with most of the sectoral problems and issues at the local/regional level, it added.
The GST Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and comprising state counterparts, have already decided on the tax rates for goods and services under various sectors to be levied under the new tax regime from July 1.
This exercise will help in dealing with most of the sectoral problems and issues at the local/regional level, it added.
The GST Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and comprising state counterparts, have already decided on the tax rates for goods and services under various sectors to be levied under the new tax regime from July 1.
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