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Tamil Nadu Power looms Federation comes in front to save their interest before the upcoming GST regime as the federation has urged to exempt their community from a load of goods and services tax. The said information conveys to include power loom fabrics in the exemption list of Goods and Services Tax (GST).
The trust issues are escalating with more data being shared with states by the center as the finance minister of West Bengal has given a discontentment sign with the data and has objected towards the center that it was manipulating the actual taxpayer base data all the time.
What a great infusion of government and general public has been showcased in this recent time when there is a whirl of Goods and Service tax around the nation. The one tax rate concern is a very old issue, perhaps started in 1974 in the United States, when Arthur Laffer an American economist first jot down the one tax case what is known popularly as ‘laffer curve’.
GST is giving dilemma in every government body by the fact of its roll out and its implementation on various departments of the authorities. In the same world of confusion, the Pune Cantonment Board is in tensed situation as the board has been suffering from loss of revenue and upcoming GST will sour its problem even more.
SAP a leading technological advancement organization and Assocham which is an industry oriented operation structure, both of these giant bodies, has now started a knowledge sharing platform which is advising upon various significant changes which will be implemented into the business structure after the roll out of GST.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been backing up the proposed GST rate structure which was divided into four rate slab in the previous meeting held. The tax rates of 6, 12, 18 and 26 per cent with almost every goods coming into the 18 percent structure.
The GST is approaching very quick towards the implementation and in this hassle, there is a tense environment created within the officials of the Central Board of Excise and Customs which are very much thoughtful and doubtful about their jobs security. An Indian Revenue Service officer said, “If the government thought, a change as big as GST will not lead to any protests, then they are functioning in a utopian world.”
A long talk was conducted recently with the President of Assocham Mr. Sunil Kanoria regarding the benefits and upliftments of Goods and Service Tax. He said that “By unifying all Indian states and Union Territories into a common market, GST will exponentially enhance the ‘ease of doing business’ for them and this can unleash India’s huge domestic potential.”
GST Network was earlier not seen as a safe and secure method of developing the database from a private based organization which would further infuse non-reliable views over the structure.