J. M. Kennedy, Director, Tax Research Unit, CBEC

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J. M. Kennedy, Director, Tax Research Unit, CBEC, Impact of Budgetary Changes – Taxation of Services, KLN Auditorium, FAPCCI, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. The advent of GST should usher in uniform rates and procedures and the taxes should be business neutral. Through this new approach, the government is trying to define services by moving towards negative list and exemption list; whether the activities are taxable or not. The ‘positive list’ approach was being followed over the past 18 years and the service tax structure has become complex. The service tax (regime) in India has matured and the sector now contributes 5.9 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product. There was overlapping of definition & classification of taxes in the older policies which was leading to lot of confusion.

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