GST rollout to mark an unprecedented reforms measure in the modern global tax history
GST
Dated:- 26-2-2016
Economic Survey 2015-16 proposes widening tax net from 5.5 percent of earning individuals to more than 20 percent, reasonable taxation of the better-off individuals with income from Real Estate and Agriculture, phasing out of the tax exemption Raj
Higher Property Tax Rates to check speculation in real estate
The Economic Survey terms the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) as a reforms measure perhaps unprecedented in the modern global tax history. The GST, to be implemented by the Centre, 28 States and 7 Union Territories, awaits a Constitutional amendment requiring broad political consensus. Estimated to affect bet
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. This difference in taxpaying and voting results in contrasting phenomena such as the Indian state being able to avert famines while chronic malnutrition remains a challenge, organizing mega events but routine safety for women being more difficult to achieve, and effective state response to floods and tsunami while water and power metering remain more challenging.
As a steps towards building fiscal capacity, the Survey suggests that the easiest way to widen the tax base would be not to raise exemption thresholds. Making a study of the data since Independence, the document points out that the exemption thresholds have been raised much more rapidly than underlying income growth resulting in a widening of the wedge between average income and
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