The GST Council announced changes to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates, which will take effect on September 22. The changes impact a wide range of goods and services, with the aim of simplifying the tax structure.Many everyday food items will see a tax reduction from 18% to 5%. The GST revamp aims to bring a majority of items into the 5% and 18% tax brackets. “The revised rates will take effect from September 22, coinciding with Navratri’s first day, except for gutkha, tobacco and related products, and cigarettes,” Sitharaman clarified.

New GST rates: Full list of items

Food & Agro products

Live horses: from 12% to 5%
Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) milk: from 5% to Nil
Condensed milk: from 12% to 5%
Butter, ghee, butter oil, dairy spreads: from 12% to 5%
Cheese: from 12% to 5%
Chena or paneer (pre-packaged and labelled): from 5% to Nil
Brazil nuts (dried): from 12% to 5%

Other dried nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, chestnuts, pistachios, pine nuts, etc.): from 12% to 5%
Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes (dried): from 12% to 5%
Citrus fruits (oranges, mandarins, grapefruit, lemons, limes, dried): from 12% to 5%
Other dried fruits and nut mixtures (except tamarind): from 12% to 5%
Malt (roasted or not): from 18% to 5%
Starches, inulin: from 12% to 5%
Vegetable saps, extracts, agar, thickeners: from 18% to 5%
Bidi wrapper leaves (tendu): from 18% to 5%
Indian katha: from 18% to 5%
Pig and poultry fat: from 12% to 5%
Bovine, sheep, goat fats: from 12% to 5%
Lard stearin, lard oil, tallow oil: from 12% to 5%
Fish and marine mammal oils: from 12% to 5%
Wool grease, lanolin: from 12% to 5%
Other animal fats and oils: from 12% to 5%
Hydrogenated animal or microbial fats and oils: from 12% to 5%
Margarine, Linoxyn: from 18% to 5%
Chemically modified fats and oils (inedible): from 12% to 5%
Glycerol (crude): from 18% to 5%
Vegetable waxes, beeswax, spermaceti: from 18% to 5%
Degras and residues of wax/fats: from 18% to 5%
Sausages and similar meat products: from 12% to 5%
preserved meat and fish: from 12% to 5%
Extracts and juices of meat, fish, crustaceans: from 12% to 5%
Refined sugar (flavoured, coloured, cubes): from 12% to 5%
other sugars, syrups, caramel: from 18% to 5%
Sugar confectionery: from 12-18% to 5%
cocoa butter, fat, oil: from 18% to 5%
Cocoa powder: from 18% to 5%
Chocolates: from 18% to 5%
Malt extract, food preparations: from 18% to 5%
Pasta, noodles, couscous: from 12% to 5%