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List of items exempted under GST :


The Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India was implemented on July 1, 2017. Even after Four months of GST roll out, there is much confusion on what products come under GST and what not. Here is the list of products that are kept outside the purview of GST:

 * Animal feed
* Aquatic feed                                    

* Betel leaves
* Bread
* Butter milk
* Children's' picture, drawing or colouring books
* Coconuts
* Contraceptives (Condoms)
* Curd
* Earthen pot and clay lamps
* Educational services
* Eggs
* Fire wood
* Fish
* Fresh fruits
* Fresh milk
* Fresh vegetables
* Gandhi topi
* Hand operated agriculture equipments
* Hearing aids
* Human blood
* Human hair
* Indian national flag
* Indigenous handmade musical instruments
* Jaggery
* Judicial, Nonjudicial stamp papers, Court fee stamps
* Khadi yarn
* Kumkum, Bindi, Sindur
* Lassi
* Live animals
* Live trees and plants
* Medical services
* Municipal waste, sewage sludge, clinical waste
* Non-alcoholic Toddy, Neera
* Oraganic manure
* Pappad
* Plastic bangles
* Poultry feed & cattle feed
* Prasad (sacred food)
* Printed books, including Braille books and newspaper, periodicals & journals
* Puffed rice (muri)
* Puja samagri
* Raw jute
* Raw silk
* Raw wool
* Salt
* Semen
* Slates, Slate pencils and chalk sticks
* Tender coconut water
* Unbranded atta (flour) and maida
* Unbranded besan (gram flour)
* Unbranded natural honey
* Unpacked foodgrains (Cereals, pulses)
* Unpacked paneer
* Water (other than aerated, mineral, purified)
* Wood charcoal

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