Distorted criticisms on GST

The author's favourite theory is that black money cannot be removed by the GST

Ground Scorching Tax 

Arun Kumar

Penguin Portfolio, 299 pages; Rs 499

The title of the book, the cover photo showing a rupee sign in a tangle of barbed wire and the approving reference to the Congress president’s description of “Gabbar Singh Tax” all demonstrate the author’s obsessive bias against the Goods and Services Tax (GST). But his logic for opposing it is all too shaky. The author appears to be a typical compulsive contrarian. The major part of this book is devoted to proving that GST is a highly complicated tax, that it is inflationary, has seriously harmed the unorganised sector, has led