NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal today said the GST was ‘goodbye to simple tax’ and not a ‘good and simple tax’ as described by the prime minister, stressing that it was good for the government and bad for the common man.
He said the advent of the GST had hit business hard, and small and medium traders across the country were facing harassment.
“The prime minister said this is a good and simple tax, our take on that is that it is a goodbye to a simple tax.
“The idea behind the GST is to have a simple tax which the UPA Government also wanted. Here it is good for Government and bad for the simple man,” Sibal told reporters.
Training his guns on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said, “Whenever this Government has taken a big step that changes the basic economic structure of the country, the people are upset and the prime minister travels abroad.”
Sibal claimed “the launch of a multilateral GST was for the rich, by the rich and of the rich” and was against the interests of the poor and small traders who were facing anxious times due to unpreparedness of the Government. (AGENCIES)
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