The tax rate is mentioned against every item and broken up into Central GST, State GST or UTGST. On an item with 18 per cent GST, which was broken into two halves of 9 per cent each for the two categories, one couple insisted that there was no 9 per cent GST rate. Most people were aware that the tax was either 5 per cent, 12, 18 or 28. But, branded atta, maida or besan carry a 5 per cent tax. Cosmetics have zoomed from a tax rate of about 12.5 per cent to find a place in the highest GST slab rate of 28 per cent.

Source: Indian Express July 04, 2017 02:48 UTC