“It is difficult to agree
with the suggestion (Centre's suggestion) to include petroleum products within
the purview of GST”, Mr Raghavji, Finance Minister of Madhya Pradesh, told the
Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on GST here on Friday. A copy of
his speech at the meeting was made available to the media persons here.
The Centre had in response to the first discussion paper on GST taken a view
that diesel, ATF (aviation turbine fuel) and motor spirit may be levied to GST.
The Empowered Committee had however suggested that crude, motor spirit
(including ATF) and high speed diesel (HSD) be kept outside the GST. No view has
so far been taken by the empowered committee on exclusion of natural gas from
the purview of GST.
Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister also told the empowered committee that purchase
tax should not be subsumed in GST.
Source: The HinduBusinessLine,
