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In this article, we have tried to give you the information on different aspects of GST but in the easy and simple English language. We have written this mainly for school and junior college level students. You can use this information or overall idea from the content to write your own essay or speech or even for the Group Discussion (GD) on GST. This content can even be used for your SSC, UPSC, SBI PO, IAS essay exam preparation too if the quality of content serves the purpose.
Goods and Services Tax (GST) is
an indirect tax. The GST Bill was discussed in length in Parliament in order to
end the prevailing taxation system of imposing various indirect taxes and
implement a new system in which most of these taxes will be covered under one
umbrella .On 8th September, 2016, President Pranab Mukherjee gave assent to
this Bill, making it an Act .In order to understand the features and objectives
of GST Act, first we need to take a quick look on the previous taxation system .Previously
taxes were charged on every stage viz. excise on manufacture, VAT/CST on sales,
entry tax on entry of goods in local area etc .These taxes get accumulated with
the original price as the input credit for the tax already paid is not
available to the consumers. This cascading effect of tax i.e. tax on tax
results in hiking the prices of goods or services .These taxes were imposed by
the Centre and state differently according to the Lists in The Constitution of
India .Now the new concept of GST is that the GST would be a single tax system
which would be levied on ‘supply’ of goods and services and this tax will be
jointly imposed by the Centre and the state with the recommendation of a
Federal Institution created which is the GST Council....