Next GST Council meeting to focus on 'process reforms', inverted duty structure fixes
The next GST Council meeting is likely to further the progress made on "process reforms" – undertaken in the previous meeting – to ease compliance costs for businesses, relax registration processes, reduce litigation, and fix inverted duty structure issues, according to government sources.
"The key issue of simplifying the slab structure is done. Now, we have to focus on process reforms," said a senior official. The next Council meeting is expected in late July or August.
In the previous meeting held in September 2025, the Council approved a simplified GST registration scheme for small and low-risk businesses, intended at providing benefit to 96 percent new registrants.
The Council also approved a simplified registration scheme for small suppliers supplying through electronic commerce operators. "In the next meeting, the framework of the scheme will be presented in detail to the Council, for approval," another official told Moneycontrol.
"The next meeting will take up issues arising with regards to inverted duty structure (IDS) of different sectors," said the first official. Industries such as pharmaceuticals, textiles, footwear, food processing, paper, and electric vehicles are witnessing significant credit build-ups as taxes paid on raw materials, services, logistics, technology, and capital investments frequently exceed the GST payable on their outputs.
