The all-powerful GST Council may consider lowering tax rates on a host of goods such as handmade furniture, plastic products and daily use items like shampoo, and simplify return filing rules in its meeting this week.
The Council, headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, is scheduled to meet on November 10 to consider lowering the 28 percent GST rate on certain common use items, government officials said.
In a further relief to small and medium enterprises, the panel is likely to rationalise tax rate in sectors where the total incidence of taxation has gone up because the goods were earlier either exempt from excise or were attracted lower VAT rates in the previous indirect tax regime.
The Council has been meeting every month since the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, which amalgamated over a dozen central and state taxes,