Government to announce GST implementation roadmap tomorrow
New Delhi, Aug 04: With Rajya Sabha approving the long-delayed GST bill, the government will tomorrow announce the implementation roadmap for the national sales tax regime, Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said.
“It is only end of a beginning. The real work starts now,” he said. “We will announce implementation roadmap tomorrow.”
Stating that work has to be on war footing from now on, he said, “We want to implement it as soon as possible.”
In the biggest tax reform since Independence, the national sales tax or GST Bill was today approved by the Rajya Sabha to replace a raft of different state and local taxes with a single unified value added tax system to turn the country into the world’s biggest single market.
