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Chaos in implementation of GST; need to simplify it: Punjab FM

Updated: Sun, Oct 15, 2017
05:59 pm
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Alleging that there has been lot of "chaos" in the implementation of GST, Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Badal said the new tax regime should be made simpler, especially for the small players.

The Congress leader said the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was not very well planned.

He also said that the country's economy is not in a position to bear shocks like note ban and GST within a year.

"As a responsible finance minister I, for one, obviously don't want now... you don't cut your nose to spite your face. Now that we have got into the GST regime, we should try and simplify it," Badal told

 

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