CBEC Chief not consulted on GST?
IT is not the States alone that have complaints against the big brother attitude of the Central Revenue Department, but even the Chairperson of the CBEC feels that her team had been ignored by the Revenue Administration. The Indian Express reported that she told the newspaper in an interview - "We did not even get the recent re-revised draft of the Constitutional Amendment Bill from the department of revenue."
It is out in the open - the FM has a serious problem - the Revenue Administration must have convinced him that GST can be brought in without CBEC . As such CBEC managing GST would be a disaster, but handing it over to the Revenue Department without CBEC would be a calamity. It is heard that recently the IAS officers in the Revenue Department tried to make a presentation to the FM on GST which turned out to be a misadventure (the presentation, not GST), as they could not answer the simple questions posed by the FM.