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Express News Service NEW DELHI: Ahead of the GST council meeting on May 28, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has asked the Revenue Department to come up with revised GST revenue shortfall numbers for this financial year given the Covid-induced lockdowns imposed across states. “A fresh assessment of the GST collection shortfall is required ahead of the Council meeting. While some emergency situations were accounted for, the second wave had been more devastating and longer than expected. We will be ready with the numbers ahead of the meeting,” a senior official from the revenue department told TNIE. Earlier, the finance ministry had projected GST revenue shortfall to be to the tune of Rs 1,56,164 crore for the current financial year (FY22). However, it had not taken into account the severity of the second Covid-19 wave. As such, a fresh estimate has to be made before the Council meeting. ....
Express News Service NEW DELHI: As the chorus for free Covid vaccine doses for states grows louder with even BJP-governed states raising the demand, the finance ministry is looking at whether such a move is fiscally feasible. According to highly placed sources, apart from Odisha, West Bengal and Kerala, NDA-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, too, have urged the Prime Minister’s Office to tweak the vaccination policy to make the jabs available to states for free. A senior official in the finance ministry told TNIE that states have questioned the logic behind the Centre’s forcing them to arrange for vaccines on their own or import them at a higher rate. ....
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