Amidst all the hoopla, GST problems remain

In an overall assessment, the problems faced by a section are unlikely to get much attention

Last Sunday, the government celebrated the completion of a year since the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was launched.

As expected, there was widespread appreciation that the GST Council had taken all its decisions unanimously, prices had not gone up, the government had quickly responded to problems faced by the trade, more entities have registered under the GST laws, the GST Network (GSTN, the system’s information technology backbone) had addressed most of the glitches in filing of returns, direct tax collections have gone up, logistics costs gone down and so on.

In an overall assessment, the problems faced by a section are