Viral Post Falsely Claims GST Imposed On Use Of Public Toilets
By Mohammed Kudrati A viral Facebook post falsely claims that the government has levied Goods and Services Tax (GST) on public toilets. The viral post carries a screenshot of a receipt claiming it shows one additional rupee over and above the usage charges (₹5) applied on a public toilet at a Punjab government bus stand as GST. BOOM found that the receipt in the screenshot is old and from August 2017, a month after the GST regime came into force, and has been debunked then by the Punjab authorities. BOOM also looked through the Ministry of Finance's GST database and found that services for pub...