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.