Revenue Dept to place IIM tax concerns before GST Council

The matter was taken up in a meeting held between higher education secretary R. Subrahmanyam and revenue secretary Ajay Bhushan Tuesday in which the latter is learnt to have agreed to place IIM request before the GST Council. IIM-Ahmedabad first approached the HRD Ministry seeking its intervention after an order passed by revenue authorities demanded that the institute pay Rs 52 crore as service t…