Explaining it as a complex process GST Council member and Bihar Deputy Chief minister Sushil Modi said the inclusion of real estate in Goods and Services Tax (GST) would take “much longer time” than anticipated. The GST Council is likely to have another meeting subject to real estate inclusion in GST ambit.
Answering to a query about the tentative timeline of real estate inclusion under GST purview Susil Modi said, “It is up to GST Council to decide. But I think it will take much longer time and it is not that easy. Let other things stabilise in the GST, then petroleum products and real estate.”
Modi, who is also the Finance Minister of Bihar, said the inclusion of real estate in GST ambit will be discussed in the next meeting of the GST Council. State lived taxes such as- stamp duty, registration charges and property tax which is a municipal levy are kept out of GST range.
Every state finance minister is concerned to secure state revenue and the centre assured protection up to 14 per cent of the revenue, stated the minister. GST stabilized rates on 178 products from the top tax slab 28% after the meeting of Guwahati of GST Council.
The minister said, “In the earlier regime, the small businesses with below Rs 1.5 crore (annual turnover) were exempted from excise duty. Most of the small businesses were below less than Rs 1.5 crore cap. Now, all of them came to net of GST.”
In contradiction with the statement that the decision of rate cut on number of items from higher bracket of GST and racking them those up in the lower slab was taken in view of Gujrat assembly elections, Modi said, “88 per cent of small business in Bihar fall below Rs 1.5 crore (annual turnover). It is not the case for Gujarat.”
The market is finding it tough to comply with the unified tax regime. On which the minister thinks that it will some more time for complete adaptation of this revised indirect tax format. “Earlier in the VAT (Value Added Tax) system, 40 per cent was online based and the rest was done manually. The GST is end-to-end automation,”-said Modi.
The minister assured that the existing system would be simplified in the coming two-three months in terms of compliance as the compliance system will be less complex and more business-friendly. As of now for than 80 per cent issues have been resolved and some are yet to be worked on regarding the existing tax rates, confirmed that minister.
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