From today onwards, consumers will have to pay 5 per cent GST on pre-lacked labelled food items like atta, curd and paneer, besides hospital rooms with rent above Rs 5,000. In addition, hotel rooms with tariff up to Rs 1,000 per day, maps and charts will attract a 12 per cent GST.
Here is the list of household items and services which are set to get more expensive from July 18
Curd, Lassi, Buttermilk – 5% GST
Jaggery (all types) – 5% GST
Khandsari Sugar – 5% GST
Natural Honey – 5% GST
Rice, Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats – 5% GST
Rice Flour – 5% GST
Tender coconut water – 5% GST
Wheat and Meslin Flour – 5% GST
Puffed rice (Muri), flattened or beaten rice, (Chira), parched rice (khoi), rice coated with sugar (Murki) – 5% GST
Others items and services to get costlier
Printer Ink – 18% GST
Knives with cutting blades, paper knives, pencil sharpeners and blades, spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers – 18% GST
Power-driven pumps like centrifugal, deep tube-well turbine and submersible pumps, bicycle pumps – 18% GST
Machines for cleaning, sorting, grading seed, grain pulses; machinery used in milling industry; pawan chakki – 18% GST
Milking and dairy machinery, machines for cleaning and sorting eggs – 18% GST
LED Lamps, lights and fixture, their metal printed circuits board – 18% GST
Drawing and marking-out instruments – 18% GST
Solar water heater – 12% GST
Prepared/finished leather/chamois leather/composition leather – 12% GST
Bank cheques – 18% GST
Maps, atlases, wall maps, topographical plans and printed globes – 12% GST
Hotel accommodation priced up to Rs 1,000 per day — 12% GST
Hospital room rent (excluding ICU) exceeding Rs 5,000 per day per patient charged by a hospital shall be taxed to the extent of amount charged for the room at 5 per cent without ITC. Works contract for roads, bridges, railways, metro, effluent treatment plant, crematorium etc. – 18% GST
18% GST for work contract for historical monuments, canals, dams, pipelines, plants for water supply, educational institutions, hospitals etc supplied to central and state goverments and local authorities and sub-contractor thereof.
Works contract supplied to central and state governments, union territories & local authorities for earthwork and sub-contracts thereof 12%