Recommendations from Indian Stock Market Tips and More to get click here to get free offers >> http://www.ripplesadvisory.com
The goods and services tax (GST), launched on 1 July, has got off to a good start, with collections exceeding the revenue target for the first month.
And this is when a third of the tax payers are yet to submit their returns and tender their tax dues. The government is cautiously optimistic that GST revenues will stay on course for the remaining eight months of 2017-18.
Addressing a press conference, finance minister Arun Jaitley disclosed that in July, Rs92,283 crore had been received as GST receipts from 3.9 million tax payers, compared with the target of Rs91,000 crore.
Not only does this put to rest fears, at least for the time being, that the transition to GST could lead to revenue losses, it is also a shot in the arm for the Union and state governments which had backed the reform initiative.
GST, which subsumed a slew of central, state and local taxes, economically unified the country by removing inter-state barriers to trade, creating the basis for a more efficient economy.
No comments:
Post a Comment