Letters: A historic reform

It is inevitable that design of any tax structure is influenced by perception of political masters

The Business Standard edition of July 3 carries several stories and articles on the goods and services (GST). The central theme differs from eulogising GST for its simplicity to calling it a terrorist law. The reader is informed of the never-tiring revenue secretary taking to Twitter to bust the “myths” about the new tax regime. 

In the Q&A the soft-spoken Central Board of Excise and Customs chairman answers the most worrying questions on GST. Some eminent columnists lament upon the lost opportunity by focussing on the critical inadequacies in the GST structure that have robbed it from acquiring the status of