"GST rules"

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2 December 2025

A man smokes a cigarette along a street in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on December 2, 2025. Smoking in public places in India is banned on October 2, 2008, under the Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules, 2008, and the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA). India is the world's second-largest producer and consumer of tobacco behind China. Meanwhile, India unveils two new tax bills in parliament on Monday, aiming to overhaul levies on ''sin goods'' such as tobacco, a spice mix known as pan masala, and other items, ahead of next year's phase-out of a Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation cess.

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12 July 2017

Cloth merchants and workers shout slogans at Burrabazar during the strike against GST in Kolkata , India on Wednesday, 12th July , 2017.Cloth merchants go on nationwide strike beginning June 27 in protest of 5 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) levied on the services (job work) rendered by them for the textile industry. Textile traders protest against ‘complex, confusing’ GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.

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#2072372

12 July 2017

Cloth merchants and workers shout slogans and pulling the Rickshaw at Burrabazar during the strike against GST in Kolkata , India on Wednesday, 12th July , 2017.Cloth merchants go on nationwide strike beginning June 27 in protest of 5 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) levied on the services (job work) rendered by them for the textile industry. Textile traders protest against ‘complex, confusing’ GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.

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#2072373

12 July 2017

Cloth merchants and workers shout slogans and pulling the Rickshaw at Burrabazar during the strike against GST in Kolkata , India on Wednesday, 12th July , 2017.Cloth merchants go on nationwide strike beginning June 27 in protest of 5 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) levied on the services (job work) rendered by them for the textile industry. Textile traders protest against ‘complex, confusing’ GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.

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12 July 2017

Cloth merchants and workers shout slogans and pulling the Rickshaw at Burrabazar during the strike against GST in Kolkata , India on Wednesday, 12th July , 2017.Cloth merchants go on nationwide strike beginning June 27 in protest of 5 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) levied on the services (job work) rendered by them for the textile industry. Textile traders protest against ‘complex, confusing’ GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.

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12 July 2017

Cloth merchants and workers shout slogans and pulling the Rickshaw at Burrabazar during the strike against GST in Kolkata , India on Wednesday, 12th July , 2017.Cloth merchants go on nationwide strike beginning June 27 in protest of 5 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) levied on the services (job work) rendered by them for the textile industry. Textile traders protest against ‘complex, confusing’ GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.

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#2072376

12 July 2017

Cloth merchants and workers shout slogans and pulling the Rickshaw at Burrabazar during the strike against GST in Kolkata , India on Wednesday, 12th July , 2017.Cloth merchants go on nationwide strike beginning June 27 in protest of 5 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) levied on the services (job work) rendered by them for the textile industry. Textile traders protest against ‘complex, confusing’ GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.

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12 July 2017

Cloth merchants and workers shout slogans and pulling the Rickshaw at Burrabazar during the strike against GST in Kolkata , India on Wednesday, 12th July , 2017.Cloth merchants go on nationwide strike beginning June 27 in protest of 5 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) levied on the services (job work) rendered by them for the textile industry. Textile traders protest against ‘complex, confusing’ GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.

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#2072378

12 July 2017

Cloth merchants and workers shout slogans and pulling the Rickshaw at Burrabazar during the strike against GST in Kolkata , India on Wednesday, 12th July , 2017.Cloth merchants go on nationwide strike beginning June 27 in protest of 5 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) levied on the services (job work) rendered by them for the textile industry. Textile traders protest against ‘complex, confusing’ GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.

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#2072379

12 July 2017

Cloth merchants and workers shout slogans and pulling the Rickshaw at Burrabazar during the strike against GST in Kolkata , India on Wednesday, 12th July , 2017.Cloth merchants go on nationwide strike beginning June 27 in protest of 5 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) levied on the services (job work) rendered by them for the textile industry. Textile traders protest against ‘complex, confusing’ GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.

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#2072380

12 July 2017

Cloth merchants and workers shout slogans and pulling the Rickshaw at Burrabazar during the strike against GST in Kolkata , India on Wednesday, 12th July , 2017.Cloth merchants go on nationwide strike beginning June 27 in protest of 5 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) levied on the services (job work) rendered by them for the textile industry. Textile traders protest against ‘complex, confusing’ GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.

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#2053390

30 June 2017

An Indian woman walks past closed shops at Burrabazar during the daylong nationwide strike, demanding changes in the GST regime in Kolkata , India on Friday, 30th June , 2017. Traders protest against complex, confusing GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.At midnight on July 1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally usher in the country's new goods and services tax. First proposed in 2006, the GST will subsume more than a dozen state and central levies into one tax, unifying the country of 29 diverse states and 1.28 billion people into a single market for the first time.

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#2053393

30 June 2017

A Daily vendor sales in front of closed shop at Burrabazar during the daylong nationwide strike, demanding changes in the GST regime in Kolkata , India on Friday, 30th June , 2017. Traders protest against complex, confusing GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.At midnight on July 1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally usher in the country's new goods and services tax. First proposed in 2006, the GST will subsume more than a dozen state and central levies into one tax, unifying the country of 29 diverse states and 1.28 billion people into a single market for the first time.

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#2053394

30 June 2017

Closed shop at Burrabazar during the daylong nationwide strike, demanding changes in the GST regime in Kolkata , India on Friday, 30th June , 2017. Traders protest against complex, confusing GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.At midnight on July 1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally usher in the country's new goods and services tax. First proposed in 2006, the GST will subsume more than a dozen state and central levies into one tax, unifying the country of 29 diverse states and 1.28 billion people into a single market for the first time.

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#2053395

30 June 2017

Closed shop at Burrabazar during the daylong nationwide strike, demanding changes in the GST regime in Kolkata , India on Friday, 30th June , 2017. Traders protest against complex, confusing GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.At midnight on July 1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally usher in the country's new goods and services tax. First proposed in 2006, the GST will subsume more than a dozen state and central levies into one tax, unifying the country of 29 diverse states and 1.28 billion people into a single market for the first time.

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#2053396

30 June 2017

An Indian man walks past closed shops at Burrabazar during the daylong nationwide strike, demanding changes in the GST regime in Kolkata , India on Friday, 30th June , 2017. Traders protest against complex, confusing GST (Goods and Service Tax) rules in all over the country.At midnight on July 1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally usher in the country's new goods and services tax. First proposed in 2006, the GST will subsume more than a dozen state and central levies into one tax, unifying the country of 29 diverse states and 1.28 billion people into a single market for the first time.

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