Kapil Sibal says GST was Goodbye to Simple Tax

New Delhi, July 09: Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal has been accused the Goods Service Tax and saying it's a Goodbye to Simple Tax.

while speaking to the media persons he said the GST was 'goodbye to simple tax' and not a 'good and simple tax' as described by the prime minister, stressing that it was good for the government and bad for the common man.

He said the advent of the GST had hit business hard, and small and medium traders across the country were facing harassment.

Sibal told the media reporters that "The idea behind the GST is to have a simple tax which the UPA government also wanted. Here it is good for government and bad for the simple man,"

Pointing on PM Narendra Modi, he said, "Whenever this government has taken a big step that changes the basic economic structure of the country, the people are upset and the prime minister travels abroad."

At last, he claimed that "the launch of a multilateral GST was for the rich, by the rich and of the rich" and was against the interests of the poor and small traders who were facing anxious times due to the unpreparedness of the government.