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    New age bureaucrat

    2020-03-16T09:38:52+00:00July 21st, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal July Edition, The Big Story, Year|

    Hasmukh Haridas Adhia, as India’s Revenue Secretary, is the unseen Goods and Services Tax (GST) super-hero. He is a bureaucrat with a PhD in yoga; he is happy juggling with numbers when he is not writing books on management; and he has also taken it upon himself to explain the intricacies of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to the ordinary Indian. Meet Hasmukh Haridas Adhia, senior IAS officer from the Gujarat cadre, India’s Revenue Secretary and a battle-hardened mandarin [...]

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      One nation, one tax now a reality

      2020-03-16T09:39:45+00:00July 20th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal July Edition, The Big Story, Year|

      The introduction of GST has passed of smoothly and the economy looks set to enter a higher growth trajectory once the initial teething troubles are sorted out. At the stroke of the midnight hour on the intervening night of June 30 and July 1, while the world slept, much of India was wide awake, watching President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally launch the much awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST). At the stroke of the midnight hour, [...]

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        Green GST presents a sustainable option

        2018-12-31T13:34:11+00:00July 17th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal July Edition, The Big Story, Year|

        A new online tool hopes to make India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) a greener, more digitised solution. In line with the Indian government’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) implementation this month, a B2B e-commerce marketplace announced the launch of Green GST – an SAAS-based GST application solution for manufacturing units across India. Aimed at improving transparency and digitisation in the manufacturing space, the tool created by Ratan Tata-backed Moglix claims to provide organisations with end-to-end GST compliance support. The [...]

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          GST: The transformational fiscal reform

          2018-12-31T13:36:06+00:00July 14th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal July Edition, The Big Story, Year|

          The new Goods and Services Tax (GST) will help neutralise the centrifugal forces in the Indian economy, writes a policy expert. The historical project of transforming India from a conglomeration of sub-national identities and interests to a modern nation state began with our Independence. The assimilation of more than 500 princely states, which had been rather ingeniously given the choice by the departing British colonial administration to either secede or join the Indian Union was the first major step in [...]

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