Chennai, Sept. 22 -- With the new Goods and Services (GST) tax rates coming into effect on Monday, car showrooms in Chennai have passed on the tax benefits to the consumers during the time of festivals.

In a bid to attract people to buy cars, the Maruti car showroom highlighted the benefits consumers will be getting as the GST rate rationalisation comes into effect.

According to the showroom's manager, Sivaraj, around 2 thousand cars have already been booked in September due to the reduction in slabs.

"In the past month, more than 2 thousand bookings have been taken because of GST rate cut. Today is where the new prices have come in," the manager told ANI.

"Before GST minimum cost of the car will be around 4.5 lakh, now it will be red...