Vijay Kelkar says single GST rate easy to administer

GST Council has already decided on the four-rate structure for indirect tax regime, besides a cess

Former finance secretary Vijay Kelkar on Friday advocated a single rate for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as that would it simpler to administer.

The GST Council has already decided on the four-rate structure for the indirect tax regime, besides a cess.

Giving an example, he said it was better to first build a single-rate GST with a low rate, achieve full mastery of this, and then consider more complex possibilities such as high rates and multiple rates.

Delivering the C D Deshmukh lecture, organised by the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Kelkar said policymaking was required to