{"id":644953,"date":"2025-09-04T09:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644953"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:24:13","slug":"evs-to-continue-at-5-gst-rate-as-council-opts-for-clean-mobility-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/evs-to-continue-at-5-gst-rate-as-council-opts-for-clean-mobility-push\/","title":{"rendered":"EVs to continue at 5% GST rate as Council opts for clean mobility push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has decided to retain the concessional 5% GST rate on electric vehicles (EVs), a major relief for India\u2019s clean mobility push amid the sweeping tax overhaul under \u201cGST 2.0.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the new two-slab structure \u2014 5% for essentials and 18% as the standard rate, along with a 40% bracket for sin and luxury items \u2014 there had been speculation that premium EVs could be shifted to higher slabs. However, the Council clarified that all categories of EVs, whether mass-market or luxury, will continue under the 5% rate with no additional cess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has decided to retain the concessional 5% GST rate on electric vehicles (EVs), a major relief for India\u2019s clean mobility push amid the sweeping tax overhaul under \u201cGST 2.0.\u201d Under the new two-slab structure \u2014 5% for essentials and 18% as the standard rate, along with a 40% bracket for sin and luxury items \u2014 there had been speculation that premium EVs could be shifted to higher slabs. However, the Council clarified that all categories of EVs, whether mass-market or luxury, will continue under the 5% rate with no additional cess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}