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Of the estimated Rs 63,941-crore project cost, Rs 11,535 crore will be for overall compensation, of which Rs 6,100 crore for acquiring private land, Rs 975 crore for taking over railway land and Rs 4,460 crore to pay compensation to structures that suffer damage

Thomas Isaac said compensation gap can only be discussed when Centre adheres to no bifurcation of revenue shortfall for compensation and no linking of compensation to borrowing limits of states

GST Council meet: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said that this year's collection of Rs 20,000 crore as compensation cess will be disbursed to states tonight

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A clearer picture would emerge when more states announce their 2020-21 budgets. So far only five states have come out with their budgets

States are facing a funds crunch. As GST revenues moderate and fiscal deficits balloon, they must look for new sources of revenue to fund welfare schemes and infrastructure needs

As the Council now needs to find ways to enhance revenues through GST, next year could see the Council deliberating on hiking GST rates on certain items

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the decision was not imposed by the council or by her as a chair but by a council member; the 'member' she referred to, according to those present in the meeting, was Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac

During the pre-Budget consultation with Union Finance Minister, some states made a case for fiscal expansion by boosting consumption to tide over the sluggishness in the economy

The states have proposed that the matter be put up on the agenda of the next GST Council meet to address the issue assuring compensation in future with \"due urgency and judiciousness\"

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Even as the next GST Council meeting is scheduled for September 20, the possibility of a wide ranging tax cut - to infuse growth into India's slowing economy - looks unlikely, says T.M. Thomas Isaac, Finance Minister of Kerala

The automobile industry that accounts for 49 per cent of the country's manufacturing GDP is in the midst of an unprecedented crises with overall sales declining by 14 per cent in this fiscal so far with the passenger vehicle segment posting a near 22 per cent drop

Budget 2019: The Finance Minister could do a lot on the GST side since it is still a work in progress. She can rationalise the GST structure which at the moment is applicable to both the supply of the good i.e. gold and on its service i.e. the manufacture of the gold jewellery.

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