A list of items with price reduction after GST
Posted on: 04/Jul/2017 5:00:33 PM
The implementation of GST from 1st July has a pervading effect on the prices of items of day-to-day use by the public.
The GST Council has decided on the GST slabs for 1211 items. A large number of items fall under the 18% slab. Here is a list of items whose prices will be down:
Food items:
- Milk powder
- Curd
- Butter
- Unbranded organic honey
- Milk products
- Cheese
- Masala
- Tea
- Wheat
- Rice
- Flour
- Groundnut oil
- Palm oil
- Sunflower oil
- Coconut oil
- Mustard oil
- Sugar
- Jaggery
- Sugar mixture
- Pasta
- Spaghetti
- Macaroni
- Noodles
- Fruits and vegetables
- Pickles
- Murubarba
- Chutney
- Sweetmeats
- Ketchup
- Sauces
- Toppings
- Instant food mixtures
- Mineral water
- Ice
- Kamdrari
- Biscuit
- Raisins and gum
- Baking powder
- Margarine
- Cashew Nuts
Items of daily use:
- Bath soap
- Hair oil
- Soap powder
- Soap
- Tissue paper
- Napkins
- Matchsticks
- Candles
- Coal
- Kerosene
- LPG cooking gas for houses
- Ladles
- Forks
- Ladles
- Schemers
- Cake servers
- Fish knives
- Bags
- Agarbathis
- Toothpaste
- Tooth powder
- Kaajal
- LPG stove
- Plastic mat
Stationeries:
- Notebooks
- Pens
- All types of papers
- Drawing/Graph papers
- School bag
- Physical Exercise books
- Drawing and colouring books
- Carbon paper
- Printers
Healthcare:
- Insulin
- X-rays for medical purpose
- Learning tools
- Spectacles
- Diabetes and cancer
Clothes:
- Silk
- Woolen
- Khadi thread
- Gandhi cap
- Footwear costing below Rs. 500
- Clothing items below Rs. 1000
Others:
- Diesel engines below 15 HP capacity
- Tractor rear tyres and pipes
- Weighing machines
- UPS
- Electric phase changers/switches
- Twisted rods
- Helmets
- Crackers and fireworks
- Lubricants
- Bikes
- Movie tickets below Rs. 100
- Kites
- Luxury cars
- Motorcycles
- Scooters
- Economy-class air-tickets
- Hotels/lodges with rentals below Rs. 7500 per day
- Cement
- Hollow bricks
