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The much awaited Direct Taxes Code Bill is likely to be introduced in the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament itself, the Revenue Secretary, Mr Sunil Mitra, has indicated. “We do expect the DTC to be introduced in Parliament in this session. This is what the Finance Minister has promised in public forum and we intend to do our best to make it happen,” Mr Mitra told reporters on the sidelines of a CII event here.
Goods and Service tax (GST) is the most talked about topic in the field of indirect taxation today in India. Everybody is keenly waiting for the proposed GST draft which will replace the existing system of VAT in India. The central government wants the GST to be implemented in India by 1st April, 2011. Although there are and will be been many hurdles which are to be crossed before GST is implemented in India.
“Too many cooks spoil the broth” perhaps this would have been in the thoughts of Group on Implementation of GST while analyzing the organizational structure for GST. This group is a committee constituted by the Government that has been framed to analyze all the aspects which will be affected by implementation of GST. On 12.07.2010, the Group has given their report. In this article, we are discussing the administrative changes proposed by the Group under GST regime.
A few months ago, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi walked up to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and said: “Gujarat is awaiting the Goods and Services Tax (GST) eagerly.” On Tuesday, at a meeting of state finance ministers where it was decided that a decision on GST would be deferred by a month, possibly leading to an indefinite postponement in its rollout, BJP-ruled Gujarat was at the forefront in opposing the tax in its present form.
The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has told the State Finance Ministers that they are free to fix their own State GST rates, but hopes that they would not exercise this freedom after a consensus is reached in the GST Council. He, thus, has conceded a major demand of the States that the Union Finance Minister should not have the last word on the State GST rates.
The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee had a meeting with the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers to finalize the draft Constitutional Amendments on Goods and Services Tax, here today. Addressing the meeting, the Finance Minister emphasized that the primacy of the Legislature in the area of taxation is supreme and inalienable and that the proposed draft on GST did not seek to disturb or alter this in any manner.
Government of India has constituted a seven member Technology Advisory Group for Unique Projects (TAGUP) on June 1, 2010, headed by the Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Shri Nandan Nilekani to address various technological and systemic issues relating to the reliable, secure and efficient functioning of IT intensive systems in Government such as Tax Information Network (TIN),
“I have no intention of becoming the Super Finance Minister to interfere with the State GST…They (states) will have their rights as I shall have my right,” he said while replying to the discussion on the supplementary demand for grants.
In yet another blow to the Centre’s plans on the proposed GST, the states today categorically stated that petroleum products will be out of the proposed indirect tax regime, even as the Centre pressed for the same saying such a move can check wild volatility in fuel prices.
The finance minister has set up two panels, one each for direct and indirect taxes, to draw up a road map to reduce rising litigation, asking them to submit a report within a month.
