Tax rate on 178 daily items reduced to 18% from 28%: View complete list

New Delhi: In the biggest GST rejig yet, tax rates on as many as 178 items of daily use have been shifted from the top tax bracket of 28 percent to 18 percent.

The top tax rate is now restricted to luxury and demerit goods like pan masala, aerated water and beverages, cigars and cigarettes, tobacco products, cement, paints, perfumes, ACs, dish washing machine, washing machine, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, cars and two-wheelers, aircraft and yacht.

Check out the complete list of goods on which GST rate recommended for reduction from 28 percent to 18 percent.

1. Chewing gum / bubble gum and white chocolate, not containing cocoa
2. Cocoa butter, fat and oil
3. Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or sweetening matter
4. Chocolates and other food preparations containing cocoa
5. Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of heading 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis not elsewhere specified or included [other than preparations for infants or young children, put up for retail sale and mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers’ wares of heading 1905]
6. Waffles and wafers coated with chocolate or containing chocolate
7. Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee
8. Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included i.e. Protein concentrates and textured protein substances, Sugar-syrups containing added flavouring or colouring matter, not elsewhere specified or included; lactose syrup; glucose syrup and malto dextrine syrup, Compound preparations for making non-alcoholic beverages, Food flavouring material, Churna for pan [ other than pan masala].
9. Other non-alcoholic beverages
10. Marble and travertine, other than blocks
11. Granite, other than blocks
12. Avgas
13. Artists’, students’ or signboard painters’ colours, modifying tints, amusement colours and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or packings
14. Perfumes and toilet waters
15. Beauty or make-up preparations and preparations for the care of the skin (other than medicaments), including sunscreen or sun tan preparations; manicure or pedicure preparations [other than kajal, Kumkum, Bindi, Sindur, Alta]
16. Preparations for use on the hair [other than Hair oil].
17. Preparations for oral or dental hygiene, including and powders; yarn used to clean between the teeth (dental floss), in individual retail packages [other than dentifrices in powder or paste from (tooth powder or toothpaste)]
18. Pre-shave, shaving or after-shave preparations, personal deodorants, bath preparations, depilatories and other perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared room deodorisers, whether or not perfumed or having disinfectant properties [other than odoriferous preparations which operate by burning , agarbattis, lobhan, dhoop batti, dhoop, sambhrani]
19. Organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, whether or not containing soap; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent
20. Organic surface-active agents (other than soap); surface-active preparations, washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, other than those of heading 3401
21. Lubricating preparations (including cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anti-corrosion preparations and mould release preparations, based on lubricants) and preparations of a kind used for the oil or grease treatment of textile materials, leather, furskins or other materials, but excluding preparations containing, as basic constituents, 70% or more by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals
22. Polishes and creams, for footwear, furniture, floors, coachwork, glass or metal, scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations (whether or not in the form of paper, wadding, felt, nonwovens, cellular plastics or cellular rubber, impregnated, coated or covered with such preparations), excluding waxes of heading 3404
23. Prepared explosives, other than propellant powders; such as Industrial explosives
24. Fireworks, signalling flares, rain rockets, fog signals and other pyrotechnic articles
25. Ferro-cerium and other pyrophoric alloys in all forms; articles of combustible materials as specified in Note 2 to this Chapter; such as liquid or liquefied-gas fuels in containers of a kind used for filling or refilling cigarette or similar lighters
26. Anti-knock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and other prepared additives, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or for other liquids used for the same purposes as mineral oils
27. Preparations and charges for fire-extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades
28. Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers
29. Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared liquids for hydraulic transmission, not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals
30. Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids
31. Floor coverings of plastics, whether or not self-adhesive, in rolls or in form of tiles; wall or ceiling coverings of plastics
32. Baths, shower baths, sinks, wash basins, bidets, lavatory pans, seats and covers, flushing cisterns and similar sanitary ware of plastics
33. Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 3901 to 3914 [other than bangles of plastic, PVC Belt Conveyor, plastic beads, plastic tarpaulins, medical grade sterile disposable gloves, plastic rain coats]
34. Inner tubes of rubber [other than of a kind used on/in bicycles, cycle-rickshaws and three wheeled powered cycle rickshaws; and Rear Tractor tyre tubes]
35. Other articles of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (other than erasers and rubber bands)
36. Hard rubber (for example ebonite) in all forms, other than waste and scrap; articles of hard rubber
37. Saddlery and harness for any animal (including traces, leads, knee pads, muzzles, saddle cloths, saddle bags, dog coats and the like), of any material
38. Trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels, spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar containers; travelling-bags, insulated food or beverages bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, handbags, shopping bags, wallets, purses, map-cases, cigarette-cases, tobacco pouches, tool bags, sports bags, bottle-cases, jewellery boxes, powder-boxes, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather, of sheeting of plastics, of textile materials, of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper [other than school satchels and bags other than of leather or composition leather, toilet cases, hand bags and shopping bags, of artificial plastic material, of cotton, or of jute, vanity bags, handbags of other materials excluding wicker work or basket work]
39. Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of leather or of composition leather
40. Other articles of leather or of composition leather
41. Articles of gut (other than silk-worm gut), of goldbeater's skin, of bladders or of tendons
42. Articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other articles of furskin
43. Articles of artificial fur
44. Particle board, Oriented Strand Board (OSB) and similar board (for example, wafer board) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances, other than specified boards
45. Fibre board of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances, other than specified boards
46. Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood
47. Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips, or profile shapes
48. Wooden frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects
49. Builders’ joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes
50. Wood paving blocks, articles of densified wood not elsewhere included or specified, Parts of domestic decorative articles used as tableware and kitchenware
51. Wall paper and similar wall coverings; window transparencies of paper
52. Artificial flowers, foliage and fruit and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit
53. Wool or other animal hair or other textile materials, prepared for use in making wigs or the like
54. Wigs, false beards, eyebrows and eyelashes, switches and the like, of human or animal hair or of textile materials; articles of human hair not elsewhere specified or included
55. Setts, curbstones and flagstones, of natural stone (except slate)
56. All goods of marble and granite [other than Statues, statuettes, pedestals; high or low reliefs, crosses, figure of animal, bowls, vases, cups, cachou, boxes, writing sets, ashtrays, paper weights, artificial fruit and foliage etc., other ornamental goods essentially of stones;]
57. Worked slate and articles of slate or of agglomerated slate
58. Articles of asphalt or of similar material (for example, petroleum bitumen or coal tar pitch)
59. Panels, boards, tiles, blocks and similar articles of vegetable fibre, of straw or of shavings, chips, particles, sawdust or other waste, of wood, agglomerated with cement, plaster or other mineral binders
60. Articles of plaster or of compositions based on plaster; such as Boards, sheets, panels, tiles and similar articles, not ornamented
61. Articles of cement, of concrete or of artificial stone, whether or not reinforced; such as Tiles, flagstones, bricks and similar articles, Building blocks and bricks, Cement bricks, Prefabricated structural components for Building or civil engineering, Prefabricated structural components for building or civil engineering
62. Fabricated asbestos fibres; mixtures with a basis of asbestos or with a basis of asbestos and magnesium carbonate; articles of such mixtures or of asbestos (for example, thread, woven fabric, clothing, headgear, footwear, gaskets), whether or not reinforced, other than goods of heading 6811 or 6813
63. Friction material and articles thereof (for example, sheets, rolls, strips, segments, discs, washers, pads), not mounted, for brakes, for clutches or the like, with a basis of asbestos, of other mineral substances or of cellulose, whether or not combined with textiles or other materials
64. Worked mica and articles of mica, including agglomerated or reconstituted mica, whether or not on a support of paper, paperboard or other materials
65. Articles of stone or of other mineral substances (including carbon fibres, articles of carbon fibres and articles of peat), not elsewhere specified orincluded [other than fly ash bricks, fly ash blocks and fly ash aggregate with 90% or more fly ash content]
66. Blocks, tiles and other ceramic goods of siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite or diatomite) or of similar siliceous earths
67. Ceramic flooring blocks, support or filler tiles and the like
68. Chimney-pots, cowls, chimney liners, architectural ornaments and other ceramic constructional goods
69. Ceramic pipes, conduits, guttering and pipe fittings
70. Ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles; ceramic mosaic cubes and the like, whether or not on a backing; finishing ceramics
71. Ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical uses; ceramic troughs, tubs and similar receptacles of a kind used in agriculture
72. Ceramic sinks, wash basins, wash basin pedestals, baths, bidets, water closet pans, flushing cisterns, urinals and similar sanitary fixtures
73. Other ceramic articles
74. Cast glass and rolled glass, in sheets or profiles, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked
75. Drawn glass and blown glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked
76. Float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked
77. Glass of heading 7003, 7004 or 7005, bent, edge-worked, engraved, drilled, enamelled or otherwise worked, but not framed or fitted with other materials
78. Safety glass, consisting of toughened (tempered) or laminated glass
79. Multiple-walled insulating units of glass
80. Glass mirrors, whether or not framed, including rear-view mirrors
81. Glass envelopes (including bulbs and tubes), open, and glass parts thereof, without fittings, for electric lamps, cathode-ray tubes or the like
82. Signalling glassware and optical elements of glass (other than those of heading 7015), not optically worked
83. Paving blocks, slabs, bricks, squares, tiles and other articles of pressed or moulded glass, whether or not wired, of a kind used for building or construction purposes; glass cubes and other glass smallwares, whether or not on a backing, for mosaics or similar decorative purposes; leaded lights and the like; multi-cellular or foam glass in blocks, panels, plates, shells or similar forms
84. Other articles of glass [other than Globes for lamps and lanterns, Founts for kerosene wick lamps, Glass chimneys for lamps and lanterns]
85. Stoves [other than kerosene stove and LPG stoves], ranges, grates, cookers (including those with subsidiary boilers for central heating), barbecues, braziers, gas-rings, plate warmers and similar non-electric domestic appliances, and parts thereof, of iron or steel
86. Radiators for central heating, not electrically heated, and parts thereof, of iron or steel; air heaters and hot air distributors (including distributors which can also distribute fresh or conditioned air), not electrically heated, incorporating a motor-driven fan or blower, and parts thereof, of iron or steel
87. Sanitary ware and parts thereof of iron and steel
88. All goods other than utensils i.e. sanitary ware and parts thereof of copper
89. Other articles of copper [including chain and parts thereof under 7419 10 and other articles under 7419 99] but not including metal castings under 7419 91 00
90. Doors, windows and their frames and thresholds for doors
91. All goods other than utensils i.e. sanitary ware and parts thereof
92. Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks in strips)
93. Other articles of cutlery (for example, hair clippers, butchers' or kitchen cleavers, choppers and mincing knives,); manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files) [other than paper knives, pencil sharpeners and blades thereof]
94. Base metal mountings, fittings and similar articles suitable for furniture, doors, staircases, windows, blinds, coachwork, saddlery, trunks, chests, caskets or the like; base metal hat-racks, hat-pegs, brackets and similar fixtures; castors with mountings of base metal; automatic door closers of base metal
95. Armoured or reinforced safes, strong-boxes and doors and safe deposit lockers for strong-rooms, cash or deed boxes and the like, of base metal
96. Filing cabinets, card-index cabinets, paper trays, paper rests, pen trays, office-stamp stands and similar office or desk equipment, of base metal, other than office furniture of heading 9403
97. Sign-plates, name-plates, address-plates and similar plates, numbers, letters and other symbols, of base metal, excluding those of heading 9405
98. Concrete pumps [8413 40 00], other rotary positive displacement pumps [8413 60], [other than hand pumps falling under tariff item 8413 11 10]
99. Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters
100. Storage water heaters, non-electric [8419 19] (other than solar water heater and system), Pressure vessels, reactors, columns or towers or chemical storage tanks [8419 89 10], Glass lined equipment [8419 89 20], Auto claves other than for cooking or heating food, not elsewhere specified or included [8419 89 30], Cooling towers and similar plants for direct cooling (without a separating wall) by means of recirculated water [8419 89 40], Plant growth chambers and rooms and tissue culture chambers and rooms having temperature, humidity or light control [8419 89 60], Apparatus for rapid heating of semi- conductor devices, apparatus for chemical or physical vapour deposition on semiconductor wafers; apparatus for chemical vapour deposition on LCD substratus [8419 89 70]; parts [8419 90]
101. Electric or electronic weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 centigrams or better), including weight operated counting or checking machines; weighing machine weights of all kinds
102. Fire extinguishers
103. Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment
104. Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics)
105. Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers
106. Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snow-ploughs and snow-blowers
107. Printers which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network printers; copying machines, facsimile machines; ink cartridges with or without print head assembly and ink spray nozzle
108. Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin sorting machines, coin counting or wrapping machines [other than Braille typewriters, electric or non-electric, Perforating or stapling machines (staplers), pencil sharpening machines]
109. Automatic goods-vending machines (for example, postage stamps, cigarette, food or beverage machines), including money changing machines
110. Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
111. Passenger boarding bridges of a kind used in airports [8479 71 00] and other [8479 79 00]
112. Crank shafts for sewing machine; bearing housings, incorporating ball or roller bearings, bearing housings, not incorporating ball or roller bearing; gears and gearing, other than toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately; ball or roller screws;
113. Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other material or of two or more layers of metal; sets or assortments of gaskets and similar joints, dissimilar in composition, put up in pouches, envelopes or similar packings; mechanical seals
114. Static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors [other than Transformers Industrial Electronics; Electrical Transformer; Static Convertors (UPS)]
115. Primary cells and primary batteries
116. Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles
117. Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading 8512
118. ISDN System [8517 69 10], ISDN Terminal Adaptor [8517 69 20], X 25 Pads [8517 69 40]
119. Single loudspeakers, mounted in their enclosures [8518 21 00], Audio-frequency electric amplifiers [8518 40 00], Electric sound amplifier sets [8518 50 00], Parts [8518 90 00]
120. Sound recording or reproducing apparatus
121. Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 8519 or 8521
122. Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras.
123. Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus
124. Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock
125. Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 8525 to 8528
126. Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields (other than those of heading 8608)
127. Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 8512 or 8530
128. Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders, and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 volts : connectors for optical fibres optical fibres, bundles or cables
129. Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 8535 or 8536, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 8517
130. Sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc lamps [other than Electric filament or discharge lamps and LED lamps]
131. Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors [other than Winding Wires; Coaxial cables; Optical Fiber]
132. Brushes [8545 20 00] and goods under 8545 (including arc lamp carbon and battery carbon)
133. Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being fittings wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal (for example, threaded sockets) incorporated during moulding solely for the purposes of assembly, other than insulators of heading 8546; electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating material
134. Goggles including goggles for corrective vision.
135. Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy
136. Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading 8539
137. Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus
138. Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers
139. Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens
140. Compound optical microscopes, including those for photomicrography cinephotomicrography or microprojection
141. Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus
142. Liquid crystal devices not constituting articles provided for more specifically in other headings; lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter
143. Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances
144. Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders
145. Electric or electronic balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better, with or without weights
146. Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or gamma radiations, for \ including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-ray tubes and other X-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examinations or treatment tables, chairs and the like
147. Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (for example, in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses
148. Wrist-watches, pocket-watches and other watches, including stop-watches, with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
149. Wrist-watches, pocket-watches and other watches, including stop watches, other than those of heading 9101
150. Instrument panel clocks and clocks of a similar type for vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft or vessels
151. Time of day recording apparatus and apparatus for measuring, recording or otherwise indicating intervals of time, with clock or watch movement or with synchronous motor (for example, time registers, time-recorders)
152. Time switches with clock or watch movement or with synchronous motor
153. Watch movements, complete and assembled
154. Complete watch movements, unassembled or partly assembled (movement sets); incomplete watch movements, assembled; rough watch movements
155. Watch cases and parts thereof
156. Cases for other than clocks, and parts thereof
157. Watch straps, watch bands and watch bracelets, and parts thereof
158. Other watch parts
159. Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsi-chords and other keyboard stringed instruments
160. Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps)
161. Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs
162. Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbols, castanets, maracas)
163. Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions)
164. Musical boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments not falling within any other heading of this chapter; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles, call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instruments
165. Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds
166. Seats (other than those of heading 9402), whether or not convertible into beds, and parts thereof
167. Other furniture [other than furniture wholly made of bamboo or cane] and parts thereof
168. Mattress supports; articles of bedding and similar furnishing (for example, mattresses, quilts, eiderdowns, cushions, pouffes and pillows) fitted with springs or stuffed or internally fitted with any material or of cellular rubber or plastics, whether or not covered
169. Lamps and lighting fittings including searchlights and spotlights and parts thereof, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like, having a permanently fixed light source, and parts thereof not elsewhere specified or included
170. Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes
171. Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics, athletics
172. Roundabouts, swings, shooting galleries and other fairground amusements; [other than travelling circuses and travelling menageries]
173. Worked vegetable or mineral carving material and articles of these materials moulded or carved articles of wax, of stearin, of natural gums or natural resins or of modelling pastes, and other moulded or carved articles, not elsewhere specified or included; worked, unhardened gelatin (except gelatin of heading 3503) and articles of unhardened gelatin
174. Date, sealing or numbering stamps, and the like (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating in the hand; hand-operated composing sticks and hand printing sets incorporating such composing sticks
175. Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical, and parts thereof other than flints and wicks
176. Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners
177. Tailors' dummies and other lay figures; automata and other animated displays, used for shop window dressing