Highlighting the initial success of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that it was not an “easy reform to implement” but it has evoked “great” public support with the government deciding not to blink in the face of opposition to the new taxation measure. He said that “We have today reached a stage of history where there is a great amount of popular support behind reforms because people have become restless. They are not willing to be satisfied with a situation where in India cannot reach up to its potential.”
Pitching the new taxation law as a key economic reform in post-independent India, Finance minister also said the Centre was aware of several issues being raised, adding that he was “conscious” of the difficulties, and therefore, constant interactions were happening on GST.
Jaitley further underlining the government’s push on reforms said that in the last three years, the prime minister has been forcing one or two important changes. India has to become a country where it is easy to do business and the businesses are done in the most ethical way.
He pointed that following the rollout of GST, the number of registrants originally paying taxes like VAT, Excise and Service Tax, which was around Rs 80 lakh, was growing and this gave the government a “slight comfort level”.
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