the 36th gst council meeting which was to be held through video conferencing had only one item in the agenda and that was to consider centres proposal to slash gst rates to 5 per cent from 12 per cent on evehicles new delhi the meeting of the gst council on thursday which was to decide on cutting tax rates on electric vehicles has been postponed as finance minister nirmala sitharaman was preoccupied in parliament officials saidthe 36th gst council meeting which was to be held through video conferencing had only one item in the agenda and that was to consider centres proposal to slash gst rates to 5 per cent from 12 per cent on evehicles advt the gst council meeting has been postponed and the new date would be decided later officials said adding sitharaman was required to be present in parliament as rajya sabha was scheduled to take up for discussion amendments to the insolvency and bankruptcy codewest bengal finance minister amit mitra had on tuesday written to sitharaman objecting to a hurriedly called single agenda meeting and said other important issues flagged by the states should be included in the agendamitra said that the centre was taking a myopic view of the automobile industry by proposing a sharp cut in gst rate on evehicles and completely ignoring the disastrous impact of such a move on the existing automobile units and entire auto service sectorgst rate for petrol diesel cars and hybrid vehicles are already at the highest bracket of 28 per cent plus cessthe council which is chaired by union finance minister and has state finance ministers as members in its meeting last month had referred the issue relating to goods and services tax gst concessions on electric vehicle electric chargers and hiring of electric vehicles to an officers committeethe recommendations of the officers committee were to be placed before the council on thursday read alsogst council may weigh gst on petroleum goods at july 25 meetbengal finance minister amit mitra questions haste in cutting gst on evs pti published on jul 25 2019 at 0527 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app gst cut on ev evehicles gst council meeting gst rate gst council homenewsindustrygst council meet to decide on slashing tax rate for evehicles postponed