A week after the roll-out of goods and services tax, confusion still rules.
Representational image. Reuters
While the businesses are still coming to terms with the tax rules, consumers too are yet to understand how the new tax regime is going to impact their daily life.
For instance, the government in a recent notification allowed unsold pre-packed items to be marketed to consumers with an add-on sticker indicating the revised price. The old MRP will have to be clearly on display along with the revised MRP sticker. This means there will be two MRPs on one product - Pre-GST and post-GST.
All in all as confusion prevails, here's a list of goods that are exempted from GST for your perusal:
| Animal feed |
| Aquatic feed |
| Betel leaves |
| Bread |
| Butter milk |
| Children’s’ picture, drawing or colouring books |
| Coconuts |
| Contraceptives (Condoms) |
| Curd |
| Earthen pot and clay lamps |
| Educational services |
| Eggs |
| Fire wood |
| Fish |
| Fresh fruits |
| Fresh milk |
| Fresh vegetables |
| Gandhi topi |
| Hand operated agriculture equipments |
| Hearing aids |
| Human blood |
| Human hair |
| Indian national flag |
| Indigenous handmade musical instruments |
| Jaggery |
| Judicial, Nonjudicial stamp papers, Court fee stamps |
| Khadi yarn |
| Kumkum, Bindi, Sindur |
| Lassi |
| Live animals |
| Live trees and plants |
| Medical services |
| Municipal waste, sewage sludge, clinical waste |
| Non-alcoholic Toddy, Neera |
| Oraganic manure |
| Pappad |
| Plastic bangles |
| poultry feed & cattle feed |
| Prasad (sacred food) |
| Printed books, including Braille books and newspaper, periodicals & journals |
| Puffed rice (muri) |
| Puja samagri |
| Raw jute |
| Raw silk |
| Raw wool |
| Salt |
| Semen |
| Slates, Slate pencils and chalk sticks |
| Tender coconut water |
| Unbranded atta (flour) and maida |
| Unbranded besan (gram flour) |
| Unbranded natural honey |
| Unpacked foodgrains (Cereals, pulses) |
| Unpacked paneer |
| Water (other than aerated, mineral, purified) |
| Wood charcoal |
(With PTI inputs)