Centre undermining GST Council’s authority: Amit Mitra
The Hindu
Move to retain tax levies on COVID relief material ‘totally anti-people decision’, he says
West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Monday said there has been a “dramatic shift” in the Centre’s policy towards the GST Council where it is resorting to an “authoritarian and majoritarian” approach undermining its authority and creating an impasse. He said the Council was the only federalist institution. Mr. Mitra has sent a dissent note after the and had described its move to retain tax levies on COVID relief materials as a “totally anti-people decision” that was ‘thrust’ upon members.
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