The President is to\u00a0constitute\u00a0a Council to be called the Goods and Services Tax Council, within sixty days from the date of commencement\u00a0of the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016.\u00a0The Goods and Services Tax Council shall consist of the following members:
\n(a) the Union Finance Minister\u00a0who shall be the\u00a0Chairperson;\u00a0(b) the Union Minister of State in charge of Revenue or\u00a0Finance who shall be a Member;\u00a0(c) the Minister in charge of Finance or Taxation or any other Minister\u00a0nominated by each State Government who shall be Members.\u00a0The Members of the Goods and Services Tax Council shall, as soon as may be, choose one amongst themselves\u00a0to be the Vice-Chairperson of the Council for such period as they may decide.<\/p>\n
The Goods and Services Tax Council shall make recommendations to the\u00a0Union and the States on\u2014
\n(a) the taxes, cesses and surcharges levied by the Union, the States and\u00a0the local bodies which may be subsumed in the goods and services tax;
\n(b)\u00a0the goods and services that may be subjected to, or exempted from the\u00a0goods and services tax;
\n(c) model Goods and Services Tax Laws, principles of levy, apportionment\u00a0of Goods and Services Tax levied on supplies in the course of inter-State trade or\u00a0commerce under article 269A and the principles that govern the place of supply;
\n(d) the threshold limit of turnover below which goods and services may be\u00a0exempted from goods and services tax;
\n(e) the rates including floor rates with bands of goods and services tax;
\n(f) any special rate or rates for a specified period, to raise additional\u00a0resources during any natural calamity or disaster;
\n(g) special provision with respect to the States of Arunachal Pradesh,\u00a0Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim,\u00a0Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand; and
\n(h) any other matter relating to the goods and services tax, as the Council\u00a0may decide.<\/p>\n
The Goods and Services Tax Council shall recommend the date on which the\u00a0goods and services tax be levied on petroleum crude, high speed diesel, motor spirit\u00a0(commonly known as petrol), natural gas and aviation turbine fuel.<\/p>\n
While discharging the functions conferred by Article 279A\u00a0, the Goods and\u00a0Services Tax Council shall be guided by the need for a harmonised structure of goods\u00a0and services tax and for the development of a harmonised national market for goods\u00a0and services.<\/p>\n
One-half of the total number of Members of the Goods and Services Tax\u00a0Council shall constitute the quorum at its meetings.<\/p>\n
The Goods and Services Tax Council shall determine the procedure in the\u00a0performance of its functions.<\/p>\n
Every decision of the Goods and Services Tax Council shall be taken at a\u00a0meeting, by a majority of not less than three-fourths of the weighted votes of the\u00a0members present and voting, in accordance with the following principles, namely:
\n(a) the vote of the Central Government shall have a weightage of one third\u00a0of the total votes cast, and
\n(b) the votes of all the State Governments taken together shall have a\u00a0weightage of two-thirds of the total votes cast,\u00a0in that meeting.<\/p>\n
No act or proceedings of the Goods and Services Tax Council shall be\u00a0invalid merely by reason of:
\n(a) any vacancy in, or any defect in, the constitution of the Council; or
\n(b) any defect in the appointment of a person as a Member of the Council; or
\n(c) any procedural irregularity of the Council not affecting the merits of\u00a0the case.<\/p>\n
The Goods and Services Tax Council shall establish a mechanism to adjudicate\u00a0any dispute:
\n(a) between the Government of India and one or more States; or
\n(b) between the Government of India and any State or States on one side\u00a0and one or more other States on the other side; or
\n(c) between two or more States,\u00a0arising out of the recommendations of the Council or implementation thereof.<\/p>\n
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