Packed curd, paneer, atta to attract 5% GST from today

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Last Updated19/07/2022

Customers will have to pay a 5% GSTon pre-packed, labelled food items such as atta, paneer and curd, besides hospital rooms with rents above ₹5,000, starting from 18 July 2022.

Hotel rooms with tariffs of up to ₹1,000 a day, maps and charts, including atlases, will attract 12% GST
Cartons and fees charged by banks to issue cheques (loose or in book form) will attract 18%.
Tax rates on products such as printing, writing or drawing ink; knives with cutting blades, pencil sharpeners; LED lamps; and drawing instruments will be hiked to 18% from 12%, to correct the inverted duty anomaly.
Solar water heaters will attract 12% GST from the 5% earlier.
Tax on services such as work contracts for roads, bridges, railways, metro facilities, effluent treatment plants and crematoriums will go up to 18% from 12%.
Renting of trucks and goods carriages where cost of fuel is included will attract 12% rate as against 18%.