Hours before Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had spoken of the
headaches in implementing the Goods & Services Tax (GST) issues had
begun to crop up.
In what could be the very first such headache
for him, the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance
Ministers on the GST, West Bengal’s Amit Mitra, and the Finance Minister
of Kerala, Thomas Isaac, have written to Mr. Jaitley, complaining that
an amendment to the Bill — that the Rajya Sabha passed on Wednesday —
for amending the Constitution to pave the way for the roll-out of the
new tax departs from the consensus reached between the Centre and the
States.
Speaking in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Mr. Jaitley had
quipped in response to his predecessor P. Chidambaram’s plea — the
government must keep the indirect tax low to protect the poor — that
“Being former Finance Minister is a luxury, implementing GST a
headache.”
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