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GST likely to be implemented anytime between Apr 1 and Sept 16, 2017: Arun Jaitley

19 Dec 2016 Evaluate

Amid signs of slippage of the April 1 GST rollout target, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a transactional levy that unlike income tax can be implemented anytime during the year. He expressed confidence that GST can be implemented anytime between April 1 and September 16, 2017, in accordance with the constitutional amendment legislation that allows a national sales tax by subsuming central and state levies.

Jaitley added that it is a transactional tax and not an income tax. Transactional tax can start in any part of the financial year and therefore, the range of timing when it has to come into force because of constitutional necessity is April 1, 2017 to September 16, 2017. He hoped that the earlier it can be done, the better it is for the new taxation system. Minister also said that the GST Council has resolved 10 issues and only one pertaining to administration of tax is pending. He said that there are certain kinds of turf issues that are yet to be resolved. But the constitutional embargo is very clear.

He said that the entire amendment was notified on September 16, 2016, and it permits the old taxation regime to continue for a period of one year. So on September 16, 2017, as far as the current mode of taxation is concerned, the curtain will be down. Therefore, neither the Centre not the state can go in for collection. Jaitley suggested that there is a need that each assessee is assessed only once since central taxes like excise and service tax and state levies like VAT are being subsumed into one. He said that ideally it should be proper for the issues to be resolved at the beginning of financial year on April 1 for the new regime to kick in.


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