New Delhi, June 29 (Agency) Congress on Wednesday slammed the government over revision of GST rates, and former party president Rahul Gandhi termed it as a tax which is ruining households.”Declining income and employment, on top of that there is rising inflation… The Prime Minister’s ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’ has now taken a formidable form of ‘Grihasthi Sarvnash Tax’ (Household destruction tax),” Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet.Party leader Randeep Singh Surjewala called it a “Tughlaqi Farmaan” or a whimsical decree.”
Today’s new Tughlaqi Farmaan… ?GST on curd-cheese-honey, ?GST on every labeled food item, ?GST on issuance of cheques for money deposited in the bank, ?GST on hotels rentals below Rs. 1000.Would the government levy GST even on breathing? With BJP everything is possible,” he said in a tweet in Hindi.The 47th meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has approved imposing the tax on pre-packed and labelled food items like meat, fish, curd, and paneer, imposed a 12 percent GST on hotel rooms below Rs 1000, and has also agreed to levy an 18 percent cess on cheques.