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    Home / News / India News / RTI applicant in MP asked to pay GST for information
    RTI applicant in MP asked to pay GST for information
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    RTI applicant in MP asked to pay GST for information

    By Anjana Raghav
    (PTI desk)
    Sep 02, 2018
    05:36 pm
    RTI applicant in MP asked to pay GST for information

    An RTI applicant has been asked to pay the Goods and Services Tax (GST) for getting information from the Madhya Pradesh Housing and Infrastructure Development Board in Bhopal under the transparency law. Exercising his right to know, anti-corruption activist Ajay Dubey had sought details of expenditure on renovation of office of Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), Madhya Pradesh, from the board. Here's more.

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    Board asked Dubey to pay CGST, SGST

    To Dubey's surprise, the board asked him to pay Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) and the States Goods and Services Tax (SGST) at the rate of 9% each, official documents said. Dubey paid Rs. 43, Rs. 36 as photocopy charges for 18 pages (at the rate of Rs. 2/page), Rs. 3.5 as CGST and Rs. 3.5 as SGST, the documents showed.

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    It's illegal for public authority to charge GST: Dubey

    "It's unfair and illegal for a public authority to charge CGST and SGST for the supply of information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. I will appeal against this before the appropriate authority," Dubey said. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley-led GST Council had in January this year recommended "to exempt supply of services by way of providing information under RTI Act, 2005 from GST".

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    Public authority cannot quote price for information: CIC

    While hearing a case, transparency watchdog Central Information Commission (CIC) had in February said public authority cannot quote a price for the information, treating it as goods or service of sellable nature.

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    Demand of GST charges is illegal and unreasonable: CIC order

    "Besides, giving information is not even service, being transparent is the inherent duty of public authority and Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) can only collect the cost of copying charges so that the government exchequer is not affected," the order by CIC M Sridhar Acharyulu said. "Therefore, the demand of GST charges made by the CPIO is illegal and unreasonable," the order added.

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