Indian National Congress vice president and MP Rahul Gandhi has demanded 18% cap on the GST tax rate ahead of the GST Council's third meeting which begins from Tuesday.

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The official Twitter handle of Gandhi's office said,"As the GST Council begins its deliberations today I want to stress again that an 18% cap on the GST rate is in everybody's interest."

 

According to IANS news report, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council will meet in New Delhi on October 18 to decide on key issues such as GST rates, service tax assessments and compensation to states by the Centre. The meeting will last till October 20.

The GST Council, constituted last month, is chaired by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and includes state ministers as members.

The GST Council in its third meeting will decide on the tax rate, will recommend the taxes to be subsumed and exempted from GST, the rates of taxation and the model central, state and integrated GST laws, cited the IANS report.

It will also decide the threshold for levy of the tax, and the dispute resolution mechanism, among other important issues, it said.

On its second meeting on September 30, the council had approved rules for registration, payments, returns, and refunds under the GST regime, the news report said. 

Following the first meeting of the council on September 22, Jaitley had said there was two months' time till November 22 "to resolve all the outstanding issues" on implementing GST.

The central government is following the roadmap to implement the GST by the targeted deadline of April 1 next year. 

Watch the full news video report on GST Council's third meeting here-