GST won't lead to job losses at tax dept: Jaitley

GST won t lead to job losses at tax dept: Jaitley – Goods and Services Tax – GST – Dated:- 28-1-2017 – New Delhi, Jan 27 (PTI) Ahead of the rollout of GST, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today sought to address concerns of job loss from reduced work of tax officials, saying they should have no insecurity as enough work and opportunities will be available to them in the new indirect tax regime. I see no reason really for disquiet for the simple reason (that) opportunities which are available to people in service and the matter of policy and constitutional guarantee are all protected, he said at the Investiture Ceremony 2017 and International Customs Day 2017 organised by CBEC here. Only the nature of activity will change because there will be

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l be integrated into one and therefore resulting in one assessment. Multiple systems on assessment which is there at present will evolve into a newer kind of system, he said. He was responding to Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) Chairman Najib Shah's remarks drawing his attention to the rising disquiet in the cadre , saying there were human resource issues in the service. Jaitley said the revenue to be collected is going to expand and there will be expansion of economic activity as well. Therefore even though you have two parallel machineries which could now be converging into similar kind of activities and shared responsibility, I think the future will stand witness to the fact that there will be adequate amount of opportunit

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