Haryana government started the 'Mera Bill Mera Adhikar Yojana'
On July 2023, Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana Dushyant Chautala, in the GST Day-2023 program organized on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Gurugram district of the state, with the aim of encouraging taxpayers, Haryana 'Mera Bill Mera Adhikar' scheme' has been launched. This scheme has also been started in five states of the country.
Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said that Haryana, which has two percent of the country's population, has contributed six percent to the central revenue.
Under this scheme, the consumers will have to take the bill at the time of purchase and upload the bill on the portal. After this, a reward of Rs 30 crore will be given to the consumers through a draw from
the corpus fund. With the 'Mera bill Mera Adhikar' Scheme, consumers will develop a tendency to ask for bills from the seller while purchasing goods.
GST
It is a value-added tax system, in which tax is levied on the supply of goods and services in the economy. It is a comprehensive indirect tax that was introduced in India on July 1, 2017, through the 101st Constitutional Amendment Act, 2016 with the slogan 'One Nation One Tax'.
GST subsumes indirect taxes like excise duty, value-added tax (VAT), service tax, luxury tax etc. It is essentially a consumption tax and is levied at the final consumption level. It has a 4-tier tax structure of 5%, 12%, 18%, and 28% for all goods and services under the slab.
