Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa has said that compensation of revenue loss from implementation of the new indirect tax regime by states will not put any pressure on central government finances. He also said that a system by which additional pressure of compensating the states for any revenue loss is not being passed to consumers in a way it would have otherwise passed on in terms of taxes.
Therefore, he added that this is very reasonable arrangement that has been agreed to keeping in view the interest of consumer and state governments. He further said that it also enables the central government to set apart a fund by which states will be compensated. He added that about Rs 50,000 crore will be required to compensate states for any loss of revenue from implementation of GST Bill, which is to subsume a host of central and state taxes like excise duty, service tax and VAT, in the first year beginning April 1.
The recent GST Council meeting which is chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has reached a consensus on the way states are to be compensated for any loss of revenue from implementation of goods and services tax (GST) bill. The base year for calculating the revenue of a state will be 2015-16 and secular growth rate of 14 per cent will be taken for calculating the likely revenue of each state in the first five years of implementation of GST bill.
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