INDIA’S NEW GST COMES UNDER FIRE BY CRITICS

INDIA’S new Goods and Services Tax (GST) – designed to overhaul, modernise and harmonise the country’s indirect taxation - has been the focus of bitter criticism, over its chaotic and haphazard introduction and implementation. Since its formal launch last July (2017), “changes have been made continually, and hence businesses found it difficult to keep pace,” says Mahadevan Subra Mani, senior director, Deloitte India, in Mumbai. He highlights how between July and December (2017) compliance framework and tax return filing procedure amendments have been ...


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