GST (Impact On Common Man)

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GST – And Its Impact on Common Man

Abstract: The introduction of Goods and Service Tax is one of the biggest tax reforms for India.
Goods and Service Tax is an indirect tax applicable throughout India which replaced multiple
cascading taxes levied by the central and state governments. GST is not just a tax change but it will
benefit the economy as a whole and have far reaching impact on business. GST was initially
proposed to replace a slew of indirect taxes with a unified tax. As GST implementation in India is
dual in nature i.e., the taxes are levied at central, state level and union territories. The GST which is
implemented from 1st July 2017 with the aim of replacing current complex structure of multiple
indirect taxes .since the central and state taxes are likely to be subsumed under GST, it may results
in fungibility of tax credit across intra and interstate transactions. The Indian GDP growth by 1-2 %
would be boost up because of GST implementation .GST is expected to decrease the cost of
collection of tax revenues of the government and will lead to higher revenue efficiency. It is the
biggest way to mobilize revenues and reduce the fiscal deficit .GST has been commonly accepted by
more than 140 countries in the world looking at the magnitude, GST is going to impact all the
sections of the society from small time businessmen to huge conglomerates and from a developing
state to developed state in the country. The implementation of GST will give a boost to the growth
engine pursued by government. This paper studies about the concept of GST in India. It also
highlights the challenges in implementation of GST in India. The purpose of present study is to
analyze the impact of GST on common man.
Introduction
GST was implemented on 1st July 2017 .Goods and service tax is a futuristic tax with the goal of
making India a global participant .India has witnessed substantial reforms in indirect taxes over the
past two decades .GST is the biggest tax reform in India .Indian government has structured GST for
efficient tax collection, reduction in corruption, easy interstate movement of goods etc…India does
not follow in ideal VAT. Central sales tax which the central imposed on the sale of goods from one
state to another will continue in different from called IGST. It has taken 17 years (2000-2017) for the
GST to come into force. It is a dual taxation regime, where the only two components will be central
GST (CGST) and state GST (SGST).

Scope

The scope of the study is extended to understand the concept of GST, its impact and implementation in India.

Objective

 The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of GST on common in India.
 This paper examines how different taxes under GST impacted consumer or common man in
India.
 The identify the benefits of GST in India.

 The understand the concept of GST and the kind of implementation.

Purpose

 GST removes cascading effect of taxes.


 Lowers the burden of tax on manufacturing sector, due to which manufacturing costs
will be reduced and prices for consumer will come down.
 GST lowers the burden on common man.
 Decreased prices will lead to increase in demand/consumption of goods.

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