In a scathing attack on the government’s implementation of the goods and services tax (GST), former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said the idea of GST was dead. In a series of tweets, Mr. Chidambaram alleged that the GST Council had been reduced to a talking shop and accused tax officers of turning into ‘hounds’. His attack on the government came a day after Congress Chief Ministers Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel slammed the Finance Ministry’s constitution of Group of Ministers of the GST Council by excluding finance ministers of their States. Giving out a 10-point ‘guide’ to what had gone wrong with GST, Mr. Chidambaram tweeted, “GST started as a good idea, BJP converted it into a bad law. “The GST Council was reduced to a talking shop.

Source: The Hindu June 02, 2021 11:16 UTC