New Delhi: The 52nd Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council in New Delhi on Saturday took several decisions, including tax cut on millet flour food preparations to 5 per cent. It decided to reduce GST on molasses to 5 per cent, from 18 per cent, and exempt alcohol for human consumption from the levy.
Regarding Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA), Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “GST Council today has ceded that right to tax ENA to the states. If the states want to tax it, they are welcome to do it. If the states want to leave it, they are welcome to take a call on it. The GST Council is not taking a call to tax it, although the right to tax lies here. So in the interest of the states, we have, if I may use the word ceded that right to the states.”
