After GST Rates on Food, Pharma, Kitchen, Lifestyle, Construction Categories

All things on one page – Check how much GST would be applicable on category wise or product wise at Deal4loans. ✓ Food ✓ Pharma ✓ Kitchen Appliances ✓ Construction ✓ Consumer Durables ✓ Exemption category ✓ Services ✓ Cigarette ✓ Other Items ✓ Hardware ✓ Consumer Goods ✓ beauty & Personal Care ✓ Lifestyle & home and Metal Minerals.

All types of chewing gum, chocolates, preparation for facial make-up, shaving and after-shave items, shampoo deodorants, washing powder detergent and granite and marble will attract lower 18 per cent tax rate.

GST rate on mass consumption items cut to 18% from highest slab of 28%

The all-powerful council pruned the list of items attracting the top 28 per cent tax rate to just 50 from 227 previously, Modi told reporters. In effect, the council, in its 23rd meet today, cut rates on 177 goods.

Food – GST & You

Item Post GST Before GST
Aerated Drinks 28 23-24
Fruit Juices 12 12
Edible Oil 5 5-6%
Sugar 5 5
Luxury Hotels 28 28-30
Financial Services 18 15-18
Telecom Services 18 15

Pharma – GST & You

Item Post GST Before GST
Lifesaving API 5 5-8%
Other API 18 17
Formulations 12 9

Metals & Minerals – GST & You

Item Post GST Before GST
Peat 5 19.5
All ores and concetrations 5 18.5
Kersene PDS 5 17
Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen 18 27.5
Tar 5 12
Coal 5 12
Ignite 5 12
Copper bars, roads, wires 18 18.5
Nickel bars, roads, wires 18 18.5
Copper Screw, nuts, bolts 18 18.5
Nickel  Screw, nuts, bolts 18 18.5
Nickel Tubes, pipes, netting 18 18.5
Aluminium ingots, roads, wires 18 18.5
Lead plates, sheets, strips 18 18.5
Zinc Goods 18 18.5
Tin bars, rods 18 18.5

Construction – GST & You

Item Post GST Before GST
Cement 28 30
Wallpaper 28 18.5
Paint and varnishes 28 26
Putty, wall fillings 28 26
Plaster 28 26
Ceramic tiles 28 26
Temepered glass 28 26
Sand lime bricks, fly ash bricks 5 6

Lifestyle and Home – GST & You

Item Post GST Before GST
Leather bags 28 6
Cellphones 18 6
Yachts 28 18.5
Air conditioners 28 26
Refrigerators 28 26
Storage water heaters 28 26
Dish washing machine 28 26
Printer, photocopier, fax machines 28 26
Wrist watches 28 26
Furnitures 28 26
Video game console 28 26
Erercise equipments 28 26
Sports goods 12 18.5
Bicycles 12 18.5
Spectacle lens 12 18.5
Whey protein & fitness supplements 18 26
Hats & headgears 18 26
Steel utensils 5 18.5

Beauty and Personal Care – GST & You

Item Post GST Before GST
Manicure, pedicure sets 28 26
Perfumes 28 26
Beauty or makeup preparations 28 26
Skincare items including sunscreen 28 26
Shampoos, hair creams, hair dyes 28 26
Wigs, eyelashes, false beards 28 26

Consumer Goods – GST & You

Item Post GST Before GST
Aluminium Foil 28 18.5
Agarbati 12 0
Preserved vegetables 18 0
Butter, ghee, cheese 12 6
Dry fruits 12 6
Jams, jellies 18 12
Frozen Meat 12 6
Branded paneer 5 0
Branded cereals 5 0
Cocoa butter, oils, chocolates 28 26
Instant aroma coffee 28 26
Coffee concentrates, custard powder 28 26
Protein concentrates, sugar syrups 28 26
Razors 28 26
Dental Floass 28 26
Toothpaste 28 26
Deodorants 28 26
Aftershave 28 26
Shaving Cream 28 26
cereals 0 0
Puffed rice, papad, bread Exempt 0
Aquatic / poultry/cattle feed Exempt 0
Salt Exempt 0
Soyabean, groundnut, sunflower 5 6
Infant use preparations 18 19.5
Pasta, Corn flakes, cakes 18 19.5
Coffee, Tea 5 6
Frozen vegetables 5 6
Condensed Milk 18 18.5
Toilet paper 18 18.5
Hot Water bottles 18 18.5
Petroleum jelly, parafin wax 18 20
Pencil sharpener, nives 12 18.5
Meats & fish preparations 12 19.5
Sweetmeats 5 12
Bakery mixes, doughs, pizza bread 5 12
Vegetable fats & oils 5 12
tea concentrates, sauces, soups 5 12
Ice cream, instant foo mixes, sharbet 18 26
Refined sugar 18 26
Soap 18 26
Dentrifices toothpaste 18 26
Hair oil 18 26
Handmade safety matches 5 18.5
Broomstickes 5 18
Candles 12 26
Tooth powder 12 26
Led lights 12 26
Milk beverages 12 26
Ready to eat namkeen/bhujiya 12 26
Beet sugar, cane sugar 5 26

Hardware – GST & You

Item Post GST Before GST
Cement 28 25
Coal 5 11
Paints 28 25
Industrial Cables 18 18.5

Kitchenware and Appliances

Item Post GST Before GST
Stoves (except kerosene, LPG) 28 18.5
Electrical hot plates 28 18.5
Aluminium utensils 12 18.5
LPG for domestic supply 5 17
Househols copper articles 5 18.5
Copper utensils 5 18.5
Iron/steel/household articles 5 18.5
Iron/steel/kerosene stoves 5 18.5

Others – GST & You

Item Post GST Before GST
Rubber Tyre 28 18.5
Steam 12 0
Childrens drawing books 12 0
Plastic products 28 18.5
Calcerous stone 28 18.5
Artist, students or signboard colours 28 18.5
Nuclear fuel 5 0
heavy water and other nuclear fuels 5 0
Compressed Air 5 0
Solar water heater 5 0
Renewable energy devices 5 0
Braille typewriters 18 13.5
Pianos 28 26
Revolvers 28 26
Artificial flowers 28 26
Bangles (Non preciou metal) Exempt 0
Fountain pen ink, ball pen ink 12 12
Wood pulp 12 12
printed books 0 0
calanedars 12 12
Animal or human blood vaccines 5 6
power driven water pumps 12 12.5
padlocks, locks 18 18.5
helmets 18 18.5
Plastic Products 28 18.5
Fertilizers 12 18.5
Tractors 12 18.5
Sewing /knitting needles 12 18.5
Agricultural implements 0 18.5
Firewood 0 18.5
Geometry boxes 5 18.5

Cigarettes – GST

Item Post GST Before GST
Less than 65 mm 5% + 1591 1681 + 25% VAT
65 – 70 mm 5% + 2126 2216 + 25% VAT
70 – 75 mm 5% + 2876 3021 + 25% VAT
Above 75 mm 5% + 4170 4376 + 25% VAT

Services – GST

Item Post GST Before GST
Telecom Services 18 15
Works contracts 12 15
Non AC / alcohol serving restaurants 12 13-14
Ac, Alcohol serving restaurants 18 22
Five Star Restaurants 28 18

Consumer Durable – GST

Item Post GST Before GST
Air conditioners 28 26
Refrigerators 28 24-27
Coolers 28 23.5
Lighting (LED) 12 15

Exemptions – GST

Item Post GST Before GST
Foodgrains 0
Baby Food 0
Milk beverages 0
Curd 0

Note*: All rates in %.