Why Shah should listen to economists, not netas, on GST reforms
Home minister Amit Shah has been put in charge of negotiations to reform the GST regime. Will he be able to fix a badly designed system that’s rife with fraud?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often described the reform of India’s indirect taxes as his landmark achievement. In 2017, a patchwork of national, state- and local-level sales and excise levies were replaced by a single goods and services tax (GST) that economists claimed would increase government revenue while also being business friendly.