GST Council meeting ends without breaking deadlock over dual control issue

05 Jan 2017 Evaluate

The eighth Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting ended without breaking deadlock over the issue of dual control of assesses under the new indirect tax regime, an issue that has been holding up supporting bills essential for the GST rollout from April 1 next year. The next meeting of the GST Council will take place on January 16, wherein the issue of sharing of administrative powers will be discussed. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that GST’s primary drafts for Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) and State Goods and Service Tax (SGST) have been approved. However, no consensus was reached on the issues of dual control and cross empowerment issues still remain to be resolved. He further said that it was not possible to meet April 1, 2017, roll out deadline.

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said that the other remaining issues before the GST Council include ways to fund the compensation to states for GST rollout and states participation in Integrated GST (IGST). He said 'working overtime, it should be possible to meet the deadline of September. I am not very optimistic about rolling GST out in June/July. Because it is a new tax and lot of complexity involved, it would be better to move in after full preparation. So, to my understanding GST will be implemented from September'.

Isaac also said that some states wanted the GST revenue from the highest tax bracket to be shared in 60:40 ratio with the Centre, instead of the present 50:50 sharing. As regards the treatment of IGST, Isaac said one interpretation of the Constitutional amendment is that IGST tax is levied, collected and assigned by the Centre. During the meeting states said that IGST cannot be implemented without states' participation and dual control. He said certain states continue to demand sole control over assessees with turnover of below Rs 1.5 crore. The total share in revenue of assessees below Rs 1.5 crore turnover is 15 per cent.


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