Best of BS Opinion: The GST dilemma, coronavirus supply shock, and more

GST rationalisation, IT design framework, Trump administration on coronavirus to banking crisis, Kanika Datta brings you the top opinions of the day

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) was supposed to be the panacea for the chronic ill of tax evasion that pervades the Indian economy but it is now clear that it suffers from the same problems as the bad old days. How is such large-scale evasion possible in a system that is supposedly backed by an elaborate public-private technology backbone and how can these glitches be sorted out? Two pieces on the opinion pages address these issues, says Kanika Datta, summing up the views.

Parthasarathi Shome explains a basic flaw in the IT design framework that enables companies to evade