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Taxation
 
What’s the real GST?
21-Feb-2017

In the long run-up to introducing GST, the Government was so focused on State governments and negotiating their claims for compensation that it appeared to have missed the fact that India has seven Union Territories that also need to come on board.Out of the seven, only Delhi and Puducherry have their own legislatures, which would mean that the other five would become tax havens under GST. Being a destination-based tax, supplies to and from Union Territories without Legislature (Daman and Diu, for example) would escape GST. This is certainly not what the Government would have wanted and appears to be a case of drafting dilemmas.

News Source:- http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/gst-might-be-delayed-again/article9552124.ece