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Is your restaurant overcharging you in the name of GST? Learn how to decode the bill
- Date:
- July 12, 2017
- Source:
- Economic Times
Are you being overcharged by your restaurant for food and drinks? You can figure that out now if you know how to decode the bill. GST , which came into effect on July 1, subsumes 17 indirect taxes and 22 cesses at different rates across different states. Your bill before this tax reform had 3 prominent entries. 1. Service charge Service charge is not a tax, and therefore, restaurants are not legal…