Government needs to implement One Nation, One Tax, One Number

Alok Gupta, Managing Director, Unistal
 

We were eagerly waiting for introduction of GST because we were always of the firm view that there should be One Nation, One Tax and less work. We appreciate the government for having introduced GST. The move was in the right direction, but in our business we have found one thing that, while the government was planning to introduce from 1st of July, their own department and PSUs were not GST ready. Two things that were very negative when it comes to businessman, System Integrators, Implementation Partners or Solution Providers that whatever agreements were there along with the taxes, they should be simply converted to the basic cost plus GST. But a lot of jugglery took place and it was very disappointing. Another thing is that, after the implementation of GST till now, all the old agreements of VAT and service tax regime have not been converted to GST. It resulted in a lot of negativity in the businessman’s mind that the government was not ready for GST, but they implemented it.

The Government has always said one nation, one tax and one number. India is one country, you have got one tax implemented if I have taken a GST number it should be applicable all over the country. You are implementing it through software, charge one tax from us, get it deposited and bifurcate the tax through the help of software you have implemented and give it to that state.