Paper Title
IMPACT OF GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (GST) IN INDIAN ECONOMY –A STUDYAbstract
In India, there exist a number of indirect taxes that are either levied by the central government or by the state government such as excise duty, custom duty, service tax, sales tax, stamp duty, octroi and many more. There have been various attempts of reforming the indirect tax structure for making tax system simple, stable and burdensome. In this process of reform we have already implement vat and service tax. For further significant improvement the next logical step towards a comprehensive indirect tax reforms in the country will be to implement GST. GST is a tax on goods and services with comprehensive manner. It is a multi-tier tax where ultimate burden of tax fall on the consumer of goods or services. It is called as value added tax because at every stage tax is being paid on value addition.
This paper explore the that how GST in industry, trade and agriculture through a more comprehensive and wider coverage of input tax set-off and service tax set-off, subsuming of various central and state taxes in the GST and phasing out of CST.
KEYWORDS : GST, impact on Indian economy, implementation of GST.