New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day promise promise of cheap daily use items through a simplified two-slab GST structure, “The next generation of reforms were pitted and a Diwali gift for the nation, a Diwali gift, a sharp political quarrel, in which the Congress claimed the idea as its own.Eight years after the launch of the Goods and Services Tax, Rahul Gandhi was dubbed as “Gabbar Singh Tax”, coincidentally on the 50th anniversary of Sholay, broadcast the blueprint for GST 2.0.It proposed two main slabs, 5% for general-use items and 18% for most other items, to simplify life and reduce taxes for citizens and businesses. The rivamp plan to be discussed by a group of state finance ministers on Thursday attempts to eliminate the current 12% and 28% brackets, ends compensation cess before the March 2026 deadline, and puts 40% levy on the goods of sin.
‘What does Rahul Gandhi say, it happens’
Congress leaders argued that the Center had been working on a reform which he had made the champion for a long time. Pointing to urge Rahul Gandhi’s 2018 tweet and video for GST reforms and limiting the rate to 18%, the party said that PM Modi’s announcement only validated its long -run criticism of the current system.The party said, “For at least the last year and a half, the Congress party is demanding fundamental change in GST 2.0, and the government needs to take immediate action on it.”Party general secretary Jayer Ramesh said that the party had been demanding “GST 2.0” for more than one and a half years, and even included it as a major vow in the 2024 Lok Sabha manifesto.He said in a statement, “In the last seven years, the increased number of GST has been demonetisated by giving increased number and several discounts. The structure has also facilitated theft. There should be a huge reduction in the rates of rates,” he said in a statement that he had gone to demand an official discussion letter on GST 2.0.He said, “The Indian National Congress soon demands an official discussion letter on GST 2.0 to have an informed and widespread debate on this important and national issue,” he said.
