Ministerial Panel Approves Disaster Cess For Kerala Under GST

A ministerial panel allowed Kerala to levy an additional 1 percent calamity cess on the value of goods and services under the new indirect tax regime. “Kerala will be permitted to have 1 percent cess on the value of goods and services across all or select items for two years,” state’s Finance Minister Thomas Isaac told reporters after the meeting of group of ministers in Delhi today. The items on…