GST reforms, Aug. 15 -- India's Ministry of Finance on Friday, 15 August 2025, announced that the central government has proposed goods and services tax (GST) reforms focusing on three key aspects in its efforts to ease the tax burden on citizens.

In a social media post on platform X, the ministry explained Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day 2025 announcement that the reforms to be imposed will be based on the three pillars of structural reforms, rate rationalisation, and ease of living.

The government has sent its proposal to the GST Council-appointed Group of Ministers (GoM) for further examination. The committee, in its next meeting, will discuss the recommendations from the proposed GST reforms by the centre and will ma...