Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Demands Removal Of GST From COVID Related Drugs, Equipment

TPI Staff May 28, 2021

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Mumbai: Prior to the 43rd meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) today, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday demanded from the centre that GST be removed from all life-saving drugs and equipment used in the fight against the COVID19 Pandemic.

Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader shared a list of GSTs applicable to 15 items including alcohol-based hand sanitiser, hand wash, soap, cotton mask, PPE kit ranging from COVID-19 vaccine, Remdesivir and other COVID drugs and ventilators and artificial respiration devices, and said collecting taxes from affected people is cruel and insensitive.

“At the time of the pandemic, collecting GST from people troubled for COVID related products like ambulances, beds, ventilators, oxygen, medicines, vaccines, is cruelty and insensitivity. Today in the GST Council, the government should remove GST on all life-saving medicines and equipment being used in the fight against COVID,” she tweeted.

https://twitter.com/priyankagandhi/status/1398123814358114305?s=20

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to preside over the 43rd Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting through video conferencing at 11 am on Friday. GST Council is the apex body that takes decisions regarding issues of threshold limit for applicability of the tax as well as the limit for dual control between Centre and States.

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