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Gautam Ray, Chief Commissioner, Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax for West Bengal, Sikkim, Andaman & Nicobar, has said that the proposed goods and services tax regime could have multiple rates and might not be easy to administer.
“Though the proposed GST Council would have the responsibility of harmonising the rates, the spread has to be narrowed down”, he said.
The proposed additional levy claimed by States such as Maharashtra and Gujarat might also have a cascading effect. For revenue generation, policy makers were already relying on indirect taxes – around 60 per cent. “In future, they would be milched more”, he said.
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