Amid apprehension of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill once again getting stalled in the parliament, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has raised his optimisim about the passage of long pending GST bill in the Parliament. Rajan said he is optimistic about the passage of GST and the opportunities for compromise that will help realise the goals of the GST - a unified tax market, improvement in tax collection and broadening the tax base.
Rajan while speaking at event organised by US India Business Council (USIBC) said another priority of the RBI is to clean up banks and their non-performing assets. He said the intention is to give banks more powers to allow for greater recovery of money and give relevant stakeholders an active role in the resolution process.He also told American investors that continued focus on fiscal consolidation and inflation will mean they will reach their targeted goal.
USIBC later said that Banks and investors will have greater flexibility to raise capital and to meet the stringent capital adequacy norms. This reform is a critical step in supporting credit growth in the financial markets and the Indian economy. It added that Industry's desire for reforms also included further development of a corporate debt market, improved infrastructure trusts and debt fund structures, long-term rupee-denominated government securities, and an updated external commercial borrowing regime.
Under GST reform, central and state taxes will get subsumed into GST, which will reduce the multiplicity of taxes, and thus bring down the compliance cost. With GST, the burden of Central Sales Tax (CST) will also be phased out.
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