GST A Journey to Make India a Single Tax Economy

Goods and Service tax is the Comprehensive levy on the goods and services at the stage of consumption. This paper will try to highlight the changes in out indirect structure that has finally resulted in the introduction of GST. This paper gives a detailed account of how we started with L.K. Jha Committee report in 1976 and ended up with 101st Constitutional Amendment Act that led to the unification of the Economy. The GST is also very important from the view of Cooperative federalism because the introduction of GST was not possible if the State and Central Government would not have forgo some of there power to tax under 7th schedule. The paper has tried to cover the whole journey of GST and the need for integrated tax structure in India. The paper will further evaluate the policy changes and its impact in past 3 years. Manisha Patawari | Dr. S. P. Srivastava "GST: A Journey to Make India a Single Tax Economy" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31326.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/law-and-management/31326/gst-a-journey-to-make-india-a-single-tax-economy/manisha-patawari