“Kerala had asked the GST Council for levying cess to fund rehabilitation work. Hence, it was left to the GST Council to decide. So it was felt that there was a need to give relief to the MSMEs under GST,” Modi said. The GST Council in its meeting on January 10 will discuss on the recommendations of the two ministerial panels. While the GoM on MSME was constituted in August last year, the same for ‘calamity cess’ for set up in September.

Source: Mint January 06, 2019 14:48 UTC