GST dilemma: Hope fades for new tax regime

There will be constitutional crisis if the GST is not rolled out by mid-September 2017: Arun Jaitley

Demonetisation is on course to claim yet another victim. The roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime is set to miss the April 1, 2017 deadline.
 
It looks increasingly improbable that the three GST enabling Bills — Central GST, Integrated GST and State GST — could be passed in the remainder of the ongoing winter session of Parliament, which concludes on December 16.
 
While the GST Council is set to meet on Sunday and Monday to discuss the drafts of these three Bills, Parliament will have two holidays — on Monday and Tuesday on account of