TIOL-DDT 2965 · Monday, 7 November 2016 · story 2 of 7

GST - Capture by Central Bureaucracy

THE Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said,

Look at the way decisions have been made. The States giving up the rights to tax which is not a small thing. Or the rate structure, which has ideological connotations...many of these issues were settled on a spirit of give and take. And this comes to an organisational matter. The Centre has adopted an in transient attitude. It's a kind of capture by the central bureaucracy. I think it is very unfortunate. None of us thought this would come to such an impasse. It's a kind of stone-walling by the central government. There is no question of many states, like Kerala, ever changing their position.