Ministers greenlight two-rate GST, tax relief likely on a range of items

The new system is a step towards a simpler mode in India's seven-year-old GST regime, originally conceived as a single uniform tax across the country, but later turned into a thicket of multiple rates and cesses levied separately by the Centre and states.

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