Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has indicated that both direct and indirect taxes rates could come down at some stage due to higher tax collections from digital payments. He said that future transactions would be substantially digital and once they are digital, they would come in the tax net. Therefore, the future taxation level would be much higher than what is currently being collected, which would enable the government at some stage to make taxes more reasonable applying to both direct and indirect taxes.
Jaitley also stated that with this demonetisation move, the banking system will have lot more cash in it and therefore, its ability to support economy with low-cost cash that is cash whose capital is much lesser, would be much higher. He also said that currency withdrawal along with many other reforms such as GST and the restrictions on cash spending subjected to PAN declaration, will help to bring down the levels of corruption in society. He added that it is also going to bring down cash transaction in society as well as to bring down levels of evasion as far as taxation is concerned.
He said that it’s our strategy that from high cash-dominated economy, we should become a less cash economy where the amount of paper currency comes down. Cash will still exist and there would be a greater digitization. He also warned of a “very heavy price” that unscrupulous elements will have to pay for amassing large amounts of cash unlawfully. He said that it has come to the notice of the government that some unscrupulous people, including some in the banking system and others, have been trying to subvert the system once again and have accumulated large amounts of cash unlawfully. Obviously, there is a breach of law in this and this is a step which hurts the economy
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