Targeting April 2017 for the rollout of Goods and Services Tax with the support from smaller regional parties, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha has said that “If we can pass it in the monsoon session of Parliament beginning next month, then we can implement it from April 1, 2017.”
Jayant Sinha further said that, after Parliament approves the constitutional amendment to allow GST, it needs to be ratified by more than half of states then after the Constitution Amendment Bill is passed in Parliament, there are three more legislations Central GST, State GST, and Integrated GST which are required to be passed.
GST was earlier planned to be introduced from April 1 this year, converting 29 states into a single market through the new indirect tax regime, but the deadline was missed as the Bill to roll it out remains delayed in the opposition-dominated Rajya Sabha. With the Monsoon Session of Parliament likely to get underway next month it remains the last chance for the government to pass the Goods and Services Tax Bill by its planned date of April 1, 2017.The government is betting on support from smaller regional parties to pass the national sales tax legislation in the Parliament session from next month, and expects approval for supporting laws by year-end.
In a related development, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is going to participate in the meeting of Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers, which will deliberate on the model GST law at the two-day meeting in Kolkata and also try to iron out differences over the new regime that will include all indirect taxes and create one national market under the GST.
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