SBI card

SBI Card has sent SMS to its customers alerting about the higher incidence of the tax. "Important: The Government of India proposes to implement the GST which is likely to be effective from July 1, 2017. Consequently, the existing service tax rate of 15 per cent shall be replaced by a GST rate of 18 per cent," the SMS sent by SBI Card read.

Banks

Banks like Standard Chartered and HDFC are also sending messages related to GST to their customers.

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, in email messages to its customers, said premium payable on term policy and fund management charges on a Unit Linked Insurance Policy will attract 18 per cent GST post implementation of the new indirect tax regime. These products currently attract 15 per cent service tax. GST will be levied at the rate of 2.25 per cent on premium payment for an endowment policy. Currently, customers pay 1.88 per cent service tax on endowment policies.

GST to rollout on July 1

Parliament's historic Central Hall will host a midnight function on June 30 to launch the nation's biggest tax reform GST. President Pranab Mukherjee, who had piloted the first Constitutional Amendment Bill to bring in GST in 2011 when he was finance minister in the previous UPA regime, will share the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion.