HC asks Delhi govt., GST Council to consider GST relief on purchased COVID imports
The Hindu
Oxygen regulators attract an IGST of 5%, while cylinders and the rakes for carrying the regulators for them are liable to 18% IGST.
The Delhi High Court has urged the Centre to place before the GST Council, , the facts of a plea challenging the lack of GST exemption on imports of COVID-19 relief material purchased for donations to States. The Delhi government has also been asked to inform the Court on May 28 whether it will consider on the lines of similar relief notified by the State governments of Gujarat and Haryana over the past month. A two-judge bench of the HC Justices Rajiv Shakdher and Talwant Singh passed an order to this effect on Thursday in response to a petition by an NCR-based firm that imported oxygen cylinders and regulators and donated them to the Delhi government, but had to remit GST on these imports.
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