One GST rate a ridiculous suggestion: Piyush Goyal

KOLKATA: Officiating finance minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said the demand for a single rate in Goods and Services Tax (GST) was a "ridiculous suggestion..."
"There is a set of people who made ridiculous suggestion that there should be one rate of GST. It amazes me when the demand of single GST rate was raised," he said.
According to him, a single GST rate of 18 per cent would put burden on poor and middle class of the country as they would be required to pay high taxes on items of daily use.