2011 Gst Bill

But insiders on both sides admit that India has had to wait since 2011 for its biggest tax reform not because the bills had flaws in them or for a lack of consensus, but simply because the battle is political not numerical.

Jaitley's merry band have decided that the GST Council will itself settle all disputes - which is a blatant transgression of the elementary judicial principal that a party to a dispute cannot be a judge in its own cause.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime aims at subsuming most of the indirect taxes at the central as well as state level. The UPA government in 2011 introduced a Constitution Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha to pave the way for introduction of GST.

But insiders on both sides admit that India has had to wait since 2011 for its biggest tax reform not because the bills had flaws in them or for a lack of consensus, but simply because the battle is political not numerical.

Jaitley's merry band have decided that the GST Council will itself settle all disputes - which is a blatant transgression of the elementary judicial principal that a party to a dispute cannot be a judge in its own cause.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime aims at subsuming most of the indirect taxes at the central as well as state level. The UPA government in 2011 introduced a Constitution Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha to pave the way for introduction of GST.