{"id":85081,"date":"2017-11-10T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=85081"},"modified":"2023-09-14T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:53:33","slug":"modi-govt-has-no-option-but-to-change-gst-rates-chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=85081","title":{"rendered":"Modi govt. has no option but to change GST rates: Chidambaram."},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Johnson Cherian.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Friday said a \u201cshower of changes\u201d is expected from a meeting of the GST (Goods and Services Tax) Council in Guwahati on Friday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The \u201cpanic-stricken\u201d Modi government would be forced to heed the advice of the Opposition and experts due to the coming Gujarat Assembly elections, he said in tweets.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A letter from the Finance Ministers of the Congress-ruled States to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who heads the Council, would set the tone for discussions in the meeting. \u201cThe letter exposes the structural flaws in the design and implementation of GST. The government can no longer duck these issues,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The government had avoided debate and voting in Rajya Sabha on GST Bills but it cannot avoid a debate in the public domain or in the GST Council. \u201cCongress Finance Ministers will force changes in GST Council meeting. Agra, Surat, Tiruppur and other hub towns are watching,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last week, the Ministers demanded a major overhaul of GST, alleging that the tax reform measure had turned out to be a \u201cbig disappointment\u201d due to its \u201cpoor\u201d implementation with regard to GST\u2019s concept, design, tax rates, exemptions, compliance requirement and technological preparedness.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Ministers from Punjab and Karnataka, Manpreet Badal and Krishna Gowda, alleged that the country had \u201clost the opportunity\u201d to bring tax reform and that there was \u201cutter chaos and confusion\u201d, forcing many businesses to shut down.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They said the party would demand reduction of tax rates for many items and raise other concerns of the business community in the Guwahati meeting.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson Cherian. Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Friday said a \u201cshower of changes\u201d is expected from a meeting of the GST (Goods and Services Tax) Council in Guwahati on Friday. The \u201cpanic-stricken\u201d Modi government would be forced to heed the advice of the Opposition and experts due to the coming Gujarat Assembly elections, he said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166548,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85081\/revisions\/166548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}