Natural gas may be included in GST, to benefit ONGC

The GST Council may decide to include natural gas in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime as a measure to provide some relief to the oil and gas sector. Currently, crude oil , petrol, diesel, jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF) and natural gas are not included in the new indirect tax structure, which is set to kick in from July 1. This essentially means that various goods and services procu…