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Budget announces some much-needed reforms!

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On the way to attain global GJ Hub stature! To help gold jewellery exports   The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), congratulates the Government of India and the honourable Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for presenting a strong pro-reform and export growth-oriented Union Budget under the visionary leadership of our honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi.   The gem and jewellery (GJ) sector in India is overwhelmed by the Government support extended to the gem and jewellery industry in the Union Budget 2022-23. There is a swathe of favourable policy reforms announced that empowers the industry and puts it on a firm footing to capitalise on growth opportunities in the coming decade.   The Indian gem & jewellery sector is one of the leading contributors to the national economy and the country is the undisputed leader in diamond processing. GJEPC hopes to replicate this success in the jewellery vertical, too, and help India become the ‘Jeweller to the Wo

GST processes further simplified

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Supplier exemption Enhanced to Rs. 40 lakhs Less than Rs. 5 Crore of Annual Turnover shall file quarterly return Further simplification of the GST processes, increasing Special Additional Excise duty and Road and Infrastructure Cess on petrol and diesel by one rupee each, hike in Customs Duty on Gold and precious metals to 12.5% and imposing nominal basic excise duty on tobacco products and crude are among the salient proposals pertaining to the Indirect Taxes in the Union Budget 2019-20. It also provides for exempting import of certain Defence Equipments from basic customs duty, reducing customs duty on certain raw materials and capital goods, and rationalization of export duty on raw and semi-finished leather. GST: Presenting the Budget in Parliament, the Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman announced that GST processes are being further simplified.   The threshold exemption limit for a supplier of goods is proposed to be enh