Last month, the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau alerted GST authorities about manufacturers of alcohol-based hand sanitisers paying 12% GST by “wrongly classifying” them as “medicaments” (under tariff heading 3004) instead of disinfectants (under tariff heading 3808), which attract an 18% levy.
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