Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the Government is making all efforts to build consensus on sticky issues, especially on jurisdiction of assesses, to introduce Goods and Services Tax (GST) from April 1, 2017 and he also said that government has also covered a lot of distance for its implementation. He further said that GST has to be implemented latest by September 16, 2017 and if it is not implemented then states will not be able to collect their share of taxes and hence there is not enough scope to further delay the decision.
Jaitley said that they have already sorted out 10 issues and the issue of dual control has still not been sorted out. He said that this issue of dual control, which deals with who will control which set of assesses under GST, has been holding back the negotiations. He said that only last stages of decision making are remaining and he hoped that GST Council will be able to resolve it through a larger consensus. Finance Minister and his state counterparts will meet on November 20 to work out a ‘political solution’ on the issue and the GST Council will formally take up the issue on November 24-25.
Earlier, the all powerful GST Council had decided a four-tier rate structure of 5, 12, 18 and 28 percent, with a cess over and above the peak rate for luxury and demerit goods. Recently, the government had launched new and simpler GST portal for migrating tax payers. Further, as per the GST Constitution Amendment Bill, which was notified on September 17, 2016, the government is required to complete the process of implementation of GST within a year.
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