NEW DELHI:With recent cut in GST rates on about 200 items, the government allowed companies to paste a price sticker on packaged products to reflect new MRP till December.
The permission to paste additional price stickers was given under the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011. In a statement, Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said GST rates have been further reduced on some commodities, and therefore the ministry has allowed to ‘affix an additional sticker or stamping or online printing for declaring the reduced MRP on the pre-packaged commodity.’ The additional sticker has to be pasted along with the earlier labelling/sticker MRP if any.
As many as 178 items of daily use have been shifted from the top tax bracket of 28 per cent to 18 per cent, while a uniform 5 per cent tax was prescribed for all restaurants, both air-conditioned and non-AC. To ensure GST cuts are passed on to consumers, Paswan had recently directed state legal metrology officers to check if companies are pasting the new MRP stickers.