Nearly four months after the roll out of Goods and Services Tax (GST), Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia has said that a complete overhaul of the tax rates is now required to reduce the burden on small and medium businesses with the new GST regime firmly entrenched. He added that since its introduction, the new indirect tax threw up teething troubles and compliance issues, which the GST Council, the highest decision-making body of the new regime, addressed through several rounds of changes.
Hasmukh Adhia said that it will take about a year to stabilize as GST amalgamates more than a dozen central and state levies like excise duty, service tax and VAT. In order to ease hassles facing medium and small businesses in paying taxes and filing GST returns, he has pointed out various aspects of the new indirect tax regime to make it industry friendly.
However, Adhia has said the overhauling would require some calculations by the fitment committee, which will decide which items need a rationalisation of rate under the GST regime which kicked in from July 1.He said “We are very keen to do it as early as possible, it depends on how much time the fitment committee takes to work on it. They need data, calculate revenue loss. They need various comparisons. But harmonisation has to be done. A complete review has to be done”.
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