Scope for reducing GST slabs, hints Jaitley

Press Trust of India  |  Faridabad 

Minister today hinted that there is scope for lesser slabs under the Goods and Services (GST) once there is buoyancy.

"We have almost by the day, space and scope for improvement. We have space for improvement and need for improvement to reduce compliance burden as far as small taxpayers are concerned," he said at an event here.


"We have space for improvement, eventually once we become neutral, to think in terms of bigger reforms such as lesser slabs, but for that we have to become neutral...," he added.

Currently, has four slabs, with rates ranging from 0 to 28 per cent.

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First Published: Sun, October 01 2017. 13:02 IST