Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami welcomed the Centre's new generation GST, calling it a "historic decision" that will benefit everyone, reducing it to two slabs of 5% and 18% and applicable from September 22, 2025. ji, the Central Government's commitment is to implement a new
The Congress MP said that Union Finance Minister made major announcements following the GST council meeting; however, the decisions were proclaimed by PM Modi during his Independence Day speech.
Congress leader Priyank Kharge on Thursday criticised the Centre's recent GST reforms, and said that the "One Nation, One Tax" had turned into "One Nation, 9 Taxes."
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hit out at the Congress, and said the party once considered GST was impossible to implement, but the Modi government not only rolled it out successfully but is now taking it forward with second-phase reforms to ease the burden on common people.
Industrialist Harsh Goenka has called the recent Centre's decision to slash and rationalise Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates under the NextGen GST framework a "big Diwali gift" for every Indian. The government has slashed GST on daily essentials, healthcare, education, and farming input
In a social media post on X, the Union Minister stated that these reforms aim to improve the ease of living for citizens, adding that it will focus on creating a stable, transparent, and growth-oriented tax system that will benefit farmers, the middle class, MSMEs, and businesses.
Shrivastava said, "Under GST, the problem of inverted duty is being solved in the fertiliser sector, which will enable and encourage the domestic use of fertiliser."
In a post on X, Chidambaram said the current GST design and rates should not have been introduced in the first place, adding that the opposition had repeatedly warned against these issues for years, but their pleas were ignored.
Congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Amitabh Kant lauded the tax reforms for simplifying the structure and eliminating inverted duties.