The GST Council has recommended the GST rates taking into account, inter alia, the
present tax incidence on goods [on account of central excise duty rates / embedded central
excise duty rates / service tax post-clearance embedding, VAT rates or weighted average
VAT rates, cascading of VAT over excise duty and tax incidence on account of CST, octroi,
entry tax, etc.].
2. A list of goods, where the incidence of tax under GST is lower than the present tax
incidence, is as under:
S.
No.
|
Description of goods
|
|
Food & Beverage
|
1. |
Milk powder |
2. |
Curd, Lassi, Butter milk
put up in unit container |
3. |
Unbranded Natural Honey |
4. |
Ultra High Temperature (UHT) Milk |
5. |
Dairy spreads |
6. |
Cheese |
7. |
Cashew nut |
8. |
Raisin |
9. |
Spices |
10. |
Tea |
11. |
Wheat |
12. |
Rice |
13. |
Flour |
14. |
Soyabean oil |
15. |
Groundnut oil |
16. |
Palm oil |
17. |
Sunflower oil |
18. |
Coconut oil |
19. |
Mustard Oil |
20. |
Sunflower oil |
21. |
Other vegetable edible
oils |
22. |
Sugar |
23. |
Palmyra jaggery |
24. |
Sugar confectionery |
25. |
Pasta, spaghetti, macaroni, noodles |
26. |
Fruit and vegetable items and other food
products |
27. |
Pickle, Murabba, Chutney |
28. |
Sweetmeats |
29. |
Ketchup & Sauces |
30. |
Mustard Sauce |
31. |
Toppings, spreads and sauces |
32. |
Instant Food Mixes |
33. |
Other pulses bari (mungodi) |
34. |
Mineral water |
35. |
Ice and snow |
|
Infrastructure / fuel |
36. |
Cement |
37. |
Coal |
38. |
Kerosene PDS |
39. |
LPG Domestic |
40. |
Fly ash bricks and fly ash blocks |
|
Medical and health |
41. |
Insulin |
42. |
X ray films for medical use |
43. |
Diagnostic kits and reagents |
44. |
Glasses for corrective spectacles and flint
buttons |
45. |
Spectacles Lenses |
46. |
Intraocular lens |
47. |
Spectacles, corrective |
48. |
Medical furniture |
|
Household goods of daily use |
49. |
Agarbatti |
50. |
Tooth powder |
51. |
Hair oil |
52. |
Toothpaste |
53. |
Kajal [other than kajal pencil sticks] |
54. |
Soap |
55. |
LPG Stove |
56. |
Aluminium foils |
57. |
Spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake servers,
fish knives, tongs |
58. |
Sewing Machine |
59. |
Kerosene pressure lantern |
60. |
LED |
61. |
Sports goods other than articles and
equipments for general physical exercise |
62. |
Phul-jahroo |
63. |
Bamboo furniture |
|
Educational |
64 |
School Bag |
65. |
Exercise books and note books |
66. |
Childrens' picture, drawing or colouring books |
67. |
Staplers |
68. |
Printers [other than multifunction printers] |
|
Clothing and Footwear |
69. |
Silk fabrics |
70. |
Woollen fabrics |
71. |
Cotton fabrics not containing any other
textile material |
72. |
Other Vegetable yarn fabrics |
73. |
Manmade filament/fibre fabrics |
74. |
Readymade garments and made up articles of
textiles of sale value not exceeding Rs.1000 per piece |
75. |
Readymade garments and made up articles of
textiles of sale value exceeding Rs.1000 per piece |
76. |
Footwear of RSP upto Rs.500 per pair |
77. |
Other footwear |
|
Safety
/ security gadgets |
78. |
Helmet |
79. |
Headgear and parts thereof |
80. |
Recorder |
81. |
CCTV |
|
Agricultural equipment |
82. |
Fixed Speed Diesel
Engines of power not exceeding 15HP |
83. |
Tractor rear tyres and tractor rear tyre tubes |
84. |
Weighing Machinery [other than electric and
electronic] |
|
Assistive devices for the differently abled |
85. |
Car for Physically
handicapped person |
86. |
Braille Watches |
|
Miscellaneous |
87. |
Kites |
88. |
Plastic Tarpaulin |
89. |
Baby carriages |
|