After a wave of recent reforms, there is pressure now building on the government to take forward and implement two critical game-changing tax reforms - the goods and services tax (GST) and the direct tax code (DTC). Experts, Sushil Kumar Modi, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and Chairman of Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on GST, B M Singh, Ex-CBDT Chairman, Aliff Fazelbhoy, Senior Partner at ALMT Legal, Advocates & Solicitors, Vivek Mehra, ED of PwC, Balbir Singh Mastana, Partner at DSK Legal and TP Ostwal, Senior Partner at TP Ostwal & Associates, discuss the hurdles to their implementation and whether they will turn into a reality next year?