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Will replace GST with a more simplified GST 2.0, says Chidambaram

There would be one simple return every three months for the businessmen in the GST 2.0. Like the Saral form for Income Tax there would be Saral GST in the Congress regime

P Chidambaram
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Former finance minister P Chidambaram | PTI Photo

Siddharth Kalhans Maharajganj
“In the ongoing campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, only the Congress manifesto is in talks. Not even Prime Minister Narendra Modi or any Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader is talking about their own manifesto,” former Union finance minister P Chidambaram said at a rally in Maharajganj, where he was addressing an election campaign for the first time.

At the campaign for Congress candidate Supriya Shrinate, Chidambaram said if voted to power, the current form of GST will be replaced with a more simplified GST 2.0, where liberal tax rates will suit the business community. There would be one

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