Tag: Krish Iyer

Walmart India launches GST toll-free helpline

Walmart India has launched a toll free helpline number for all the ‘kiraana’ and other reseller members to help them transit smoothly into new tax laws and also to ensure minimum disruptions in their business, with the roll out of GST from 1st July, the company said this in a statement today…

GST will make Indian retail sector more efficient: Walmart India

GST is not just a tax reform, it is a whole new way of doing business. For example, right now industry faces some bottlenecks around the country, at check posts, octroi-payments and therefore the amount of time that the trucks have to wait & hence there lack of easy movement of goods from one…

Walmart India to help SME partners become GST-ready

As a new tax structure, Goods and Services Tax (GST), is about to be rolled out in the country, Walmart India has flagged off a series of workshops for SME supplier partners to help them evaluate their GST compliance levels and prepare for the transition. The move by Walmart is to minimise disrup…

Food processing sector to treble in coming years: Harsimrat Kaur Badal

India’s food processing industry is expected to treble in the coming years on the back of higher economic growth and government initiatives like 100 per cent FDI in marketing of food items, Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said. At present, the size of India’s food processing industry is about…