All GST Council meetings

• 2026-10-0857th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 57th meeting followed the 56th meeting's rate reforms with a package of process reforms, mainly on registration, returns, refunds and adjudication. The Council recommended withdrawing arrest powers under GST, raising...
• 2025-09-0356th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 56th meeting approved the 'next-generation' GST reforms announced by the Prime Minister on 15 August 2025. It replaced the four-slab structure with two main rates, 5 and 18 per cent, plus a 40 per cent rate for a few...
• 2024-12-2155th GST Council meeting, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
  Meeting in Jaisalmer, the 55th Council cut GST on fortified rice kernels, exempted gene therapy and contributions to the motor accident fund, and clarified that vouchers and banks' penal charges are not subject to GST. I...
• 2024-09-0954th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 54th meeting set up a Group of Ministers to look at GST on life and health insurance and another on the future of the compensation cess. It cut GST on three cancer drugs and on extruded savoury snacks, exempted gover...
• 2024-06-2253rd GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 53rd meeting, the first after the 2024 general election, concentrated on reducing litigation and easing compliance. It recommended waiving interest and penalties on non-fraud demands for the first three years of GST ...
• 2023-10-0752nd GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 52nd meeting cut GST on millet-based food preparations and molasses, and recommended keeping extra neutral alcohol used for potable liquor outside GST. It offered an amnesty for taxpayers who had missed the deadline ...
• 2023-08-0251st GST Council meeting, Virtual mode, New Delhi
  The 51st meeting, held in virtual mode, gave legal shape to the 50th meeting's decision to tax casinos, horse racing and online gaming at 28 per cent. It recommended amendments to the CGST and IGST Acts, including a regi...
• 2023-07-1150th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The milestone 50th meeting decided that casinos, horse racing and online gaming would all be taxed at 28 per cent on the full face value of bets or chips. It also approved rules for appointing members of the GST Appellat...
• 2023-02-1849th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  At the 49th meeting the Centre announced it would clear the entire pending GST compensation for June 2022 from its own resources, completing provisional compensation for the five-year period. The Council adopted the Grou...
• 2022-12-1748th GST Council meeting, Virtual mode, New Delhi
  The 48th meeting, held in virtual mode, focused on decriminalisation and trade facilitation. The Council recommended raising the threshold for prosecution, reducing compounding amounts and decriminalising certain procedu...
• 2022-06-2847th GST Council meeting, Chandigarh
  Meeting in Chandigarh on 28 and 29 June 2022, the Council adopted the interim report of the Group of Ministers on rate rationalisation. It corrected inverted duty structures on many goods and services and withdrew severa...
• 2021-12-3146th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 46th meeting was a short emergency meeting called on the eve of the planned increase in GST on textiles. Following objections from several States and the industry, the Council deferred the rate change on textiles dec...
• 2021-09-1745th GST Council meeting, Lucknow
  The Lucknow meeting was the first physical meeting since the pandemic began. It extended Covid drug concessions to December 2021, cut rates on several medicines and corrected inverted duty structures on a range of goods,...
• 2021-06-1244th GST Council meeting, Video conference
  Acting on the Group of Ministers set up at the previous meeting, the 44th Council cut GST on drugs, oxygen equipment, testing kits and other items used in Covid-19 relief. Some drugs were exempted and most other items mo...
• 2021-05-2843rd GST Council meeting, Video conference
  Meeting during the second Covid-19 wave, the 43rd Council exempted from IGST a range of Covid-related goods imported for donation or relief, including Amphotericin B, and set up a Group of Ministers on further relief for...
• 2020-10-0542nd GST Council meeting, Video conference
  The 42nd meeting was held by video conference in two sittings, on 5 and 12 October 2020. It agreed to extend the levy of compensation cess beyond June 2022 to cover the compensation gap, and approved compliance simplific...
• 2020-08-2741st GST Council meeting, Video conference
  The 41st meeting was devoted to the shortfall in compensation to States caused by the Covid-19 slump in revenue and cess collections. The Centre presented an estimate of the shortfall for 2020-21 and separated the part a...
• 2020-06-1240th GST Council meeting, Video conference
  The first Council meeting after the Covid-19 lockdown was held by video conference and focused on relief for taxpayers. Late fees on past nil returns were waived and capped for other returns filed within a window, and re...
• 2020-03-1439th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 39th meeting, held just before the Covid-19 lockdown, raised GST on mobile phones to correct an inverted duty structure and cut the rate on aircraft maintenance services. It extended the 2018-19 annual return deadlin...
• 2019-12-1838th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 38th meeting is remembered as the first time the Council decided an issue by vote rather than consensus, on lottery taxation. A single 28 per cent rate was adopted for State-run and State-authorised lotteries from 1 ...
• 2019-09-2037th GST Council meeting, Goa
  Meeting in Goa at a time of economic slowdown, the 37th Council lowered rates for the hospitality sector and on a number of goods, while raising rates on caffeinated beverages and railway wagons. Annual returns for the f...
• 2019-07-2736th GST Council meeting, Video conference
  The 36th meeting, held by video conference, cut GST on electric vehicles and their chargers to promote clean mobility. Hiring of electric buses by local authorities was exempted. The changes took effect from 1 August 201...
• 2019-06-2135th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 35th meeting was the first chaired by Nirmala Sitharaman after the new government took office, and opened with a resolution of thanks to Arun Jaitley. It fixed the locations of GST Appellate Tribunal benches, extende...
• 2019-03-1934th GST Council meeting, Video conference
  The 34th meeting settled the transition arrangements for the new real estate rates decided at the previous meeting. Builders of ongoing projects were given a one-time option to stay with the old rates with input tax cred...
• 2019-02-2033rd GST Council meeting, Video conference (20 February) and Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi (24 February)
  The 33rd meeting began by video conference on 20 February 2019 and reconvened in New Delhi on 24 February to decide on real estate. To support housing, the Council moved residential property to low effective rates withou...
• 2019-01-1032nd GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 32nd meeting focused on relief for MSMEs and small traders. It created a higher registration threshold option of Rs. 40 lakh for suppliers of goods, raised the composition limit to Rs. 1.5 crore and introduced a comp...
• 2018-12-2231st GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 31st meeting cut GST rates on a number of goods and services, including cinema tickets, televisions and monitors up to 32 inches, and power banks. It extended the due date for the first annual returns for 2017-18 to ...
• 2018-09-2830th GST Council meeting, Video conference
  The 30th meeting, held by video conference, discussed Kerala's proposal to levy a cess on SGST to fund rehabilitation after the 2018 floods. The Council set up a seven-member Group of Ministers to examine how revenue cou...
• 2018-08-0429th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 29th meeting was convened specially to address problems faced by micro, small and medium enterprises under GST. The Council set up a Group of Ministers on MSME issues supported by its fitment, law and IT committees. ...
• 2018-07-2128th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  Chaired by Piyush Goyal while he held the finance portfolio, the 28th meeting cut rates on a long list of goods and services and approved the new return formats. Sanitary napkins and rakhis were exempted and several hous...
• 2018-05-0427th GST Council meeting, Video conference
  Meeting by video conference, the Council approved the principles of a new, simplified GST return proposed by the Group of Ministers on IT. It also discussed a concession for digital payments and a sugar cess with lower G...
• 2018-03-1026th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 26th meeting kept the interim return system in place while a new return model was worked out by the Group of Ministers on IT. Reverse charge and TDS/TCS were deferred again to 30 June 2018. A revised e-way bill regim...
• 2018-01-1825th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 25th meeting cut rates on a set of goods and services and made several procedural changes. Old and used vehicles, bio-fuel buses and metro construction were among the items given lower rates, and some government-rela...
• 2017-12-1624th GST Council meeting, Video conference
  Held by video conference, the 24th meeting focused on the national e-way bill. Transporters had complained that separate State e-way bill systems were hampering inter-State movement. The Council fixed dates for a trial r...
• 2017-11-1023rd GST Council meeting, Guwahati, Assam
  The Guwahati meeting undertook the first large rationalisation of GST rates, shrinking the 28 per cent list so that only 50 items remained in the top slab. Restaurant services were moved to a uniform 5 per cent without i...
• 2017-10-0622nd GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The 22nd meeting delivered a broad relief package for small and medium businesses and exporters. The composition limit was raised to Rs. 1 crore, small taxpayers were moved to quarterly returns, and reverse charge on pur...
• 2017-09-0921st GST Council meeting, Hyderabad
  Two months into GST, the Hyderabad meeting responded to widespread difficulties in filing returns on the new portal. It extended due dates for the July 2017 returns, continued the summary return GSTR-3B up to December 20...
• 2017-08-0520th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The twentieth meeting reviewed the first month of GST and representations from trade and industry. It approved the e-way bill rules and forms, and adopted Fitment Committee proposals revising rates on a number of goods a...
• 2017-07-1719th GST Council meeting, Video conference
  The first meeting after the launch was held by video conference. It found that the cess calibration on cigarettes had cut the overall tax burden compared with the pre-GST regime because it ignored the cascading of VAT on...
• 2017-06-3018th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  Held on the eve of the GST launch on 1 July 2017, the eighteenth meeting cleared last-minute issues for the rollout. The government noted that the Council had decided all its matters by consensus and had cleared the laws...
• 2017-06-1817th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  Two weeks before the launch, the seventeenth meeting eased the return-filing burden for the first months of GST. Tax for July and August 2017 would be paid on a simple summary return, Form GSTR-3B, while invoice-level re...
• 2017-06-1116th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  Responding to representations from trade, the sixteenth meeting revisited the rates already fixed and reduced them in 66 cases. It also raised the turnover limit for the composition scheme from Rs. 50 lakh to Rs. 75 lakh...
• 2017-06-0315th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The fifteenth meeting fixed rates on items left over from the Srinagar meeting, including gold, footwear, textiles and biscuits. It also approved the remaining GST rules. With most rates and rules finalised, preparations...
• 2017-05-1814th GST Council meeting, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
  Meeting in Srinagar on 18 and 19 May 2017, the Council carried out the fitment of goods and services into the GST rate slabs. It broadly approved rates of nil, 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent for goods and the rates of compens...
• 2017-03-3113th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The thirteenth meeting moved from the Acts to the rules needed to run GST. The Council approved in principle four new sets of draft rules and approved revised versions of five rules released earlier. Together these cover...
• 2017-03-1612th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  At its twelfth meeting the Council approved the draft SGST and UTGST laws, completing the set of GST legislation. It also approved further changes to the IGST law and the compensation law. With this, all the GST bills we...
• 2017-03-0411th GST Council meeting, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi
  The eleventh meeting approved the draft CGST and IGST Bills as vetted by the Law Ministry, allowing the Centre to introduce them in Parliament during the budget session. The official release highlighted the main features...
• 2017-02-1810th GST Council meeting, Udaipur, Rajasthan
  Held in Udaipur, the tenth meeting approved further changes to the model GST law after legal vetting. Among other things it settled the definition of agriculturist and revisited composition scheme provisions. The aim was...
• 2017-01-169th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The ninth meeting resolved the long-running dispute on dual control. The Council agreed to divide taxpayers between Central and State tax administrations by turnover and number, so that each taxpayer deals with a single ...
• 2017-01-038th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The eighth meeting, on 3 and 4 January 2017, approved the draft IGST law and a revised draft compensation law. It agreed on how any balance left in the Compensation Fund would be treated. The issue of dual control and cr...
• 2016-12-227th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  Meeting on 22 and 23 December 2016, the Council completed its review of the model GST law and approved it subject to the decisions taken. It also approved the draft compensation law, confirming the 14 per cent assured gr...
• 2016-12-116th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The sixth meeting continued the legal vetting of the draft model GST law. The Council went through the later chapters of the draft, covering matters such as assessment, audit, demands, inspection, search and seizure and ...
• 2016-12-025th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The fifth meeting, held on 2 and 3 December 2016, began a clause-by-clause examination of the draft model GST law and the draft compensation law. Members discussed several chapters of the model law and suggested changes ...
• 2016-11-034th GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  Over 3 and 4 November 2016 the Council settled the basic rate architecture of GST. It agreed to a four-slab structure of 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent, with a cess above the top rate on luxury and demerit goods to fund compe...
• 2016-10-183rd GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  Held on 18 and 19 October 2016, the third meeting concentrated on the compensation package for States and the first proposals for a GST rate structure. The Council fixed 2015-16 as the base year and agreed to an assured ...
• 2016-09-302nd GST Council meeting, New Delhi
  The second meeting took up confirmation of the first meeting's minutes and draft subordinate rules for the new tax. The Council approved draft GST rules on the core processes of registration, payment, returns, refunds an...
• 2016-09-221st GST Council meeting, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi
  The inaugural meeting of the GST Council was held over two days, 22 and 23 September 2016, a week after the Council was constituted. It adopted the Council's rules of procedure and settled several foundational design que...

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