<h1>GST Council Cuts Rates on Essential Goods: Mangoes, Medicines, E-Waste, and More Now at 5% or 12.</h1> The 22nd GST Council Meeting, chaired by the Union Finance Minister, recommended reducing GST rates on various goods. Key reductions include mangoes sliced dried, khakra, plain chapati, and certain food preparations intended for free distribution, all reduced from 12% or 18% to 5%. Ayurvedic and other traditional medicines, poster color, modeling paste, and various waste materials also saw reductions. Sewing threads and synthetic filament yarns had rates lowered from 18% to 12%. Other items like e-waste and biomass briquettes were reduced to 5%. These changes aim to ease the tax burden on essential and eco-friendly goods.