COIMBATORE: While GST on chapathi flour making machines was reduced to 5 per cent, tax on wet grinders remained at 28 per cent despite repeated appeals to reduce it.
This, the wet grinders manufactureres alleged, reeked of partiality and increased the South-North divide in the country.
“Before GST, wheat flour making machines were taxed at 28 per cent. Post GST, it was taxed at 12 per cent and later reduced to five per cent,” said M Radhakrishnan, president of Coimbatore Wet Grinder Manufacturers Association.
Whereas, the wet grinders, which are commonly used in the South, were taxed at five per cent before GST but was now taxed at 28 per cent under GST, he said.