What Are Markets Talking About Ahead of Paperex 2025?
28 November 2025
As Paperex 2025 approaches, Old Economy highlights four key topics that will dominate conversations at the conference this year.
The GST Council of India announced new tax rates effective 22 September 2025, whereby GST on paperboard was increased from 12% to 18% and pulled down from 12% to 5% on corrugated boxes. The inverted GST structure has resulted in high working capital requirements for corrugators, with the refund process taking long. Moreover, only 90% of the input tax credit is refunded provisionally, with the remaining 10% processed later.