The Government has proposed around 46 Amendments to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) laws viz., the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 along with the respective State Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 and GST (Compensation of States) Act, 2017. The details are placed on the Government’s website www.mygov.in at the following link:https://www.mygov.in/groupissue/stakeholder-consultation-proposed-changes-gst-laws/

The Government has invited comments from the stakeholders on the Draft Proposals for amending the GST laws by 15th July, 2018. A total of 1285 responses have been received on www.mygov.in portal till 15th July, 2018. Various representations on the proposed amendments have also been received from different trade and industry bodies, chambers of commerce and other stakeholders.

This was stated by Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla, Minister of State for Finance in a Written Reply to a Question in Lok Sabha today.

Goods and Services Tax amendments invite stakeholder comments; multiple proposed changes to central and complementary state GST statutes. Proposed amendments comprise approximately forty-six changes to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) laws, covering the Central, State, Integrated and Union Territory GST Acts and the GST (Compensation of States) Act; draft proposals were published on the government portal and subjected to public consultation with numerous responses and representations from trade bodies and other stakeholders.