{"id":423657,"date":"2021-07-02T08:31:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T03:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423657"},"modified":"2021-07-02T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T03:15:23","slug":"gadkari-says-gst-was-very-essential-sees-room-for-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gadkari-says-gst-was-very-essential-sees-room-for-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari says GST was &#8216;very essential&#8217;, sees &#8216;room for improvement&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime completing four years, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said this tax reform was &#8220;very essential&#8221;, while observing that there is a room for improvement in the indirect tax regime.<\/p>\n<p>Gadkari, who holds MSME portfolio along with road transport, further said there is a need to build consensus with states to bring petroleum products and alcohol under the GST regime as the country has a federal structure. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This tax reform (GST) was very essential&#8230; though we have completed four years of GST, I feel there is room for improvement and we can make it better with support of stakeholders,&#8221; he said at an event organised by the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) on GST Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime completing four years, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said this tax reform was &#8220;very essential&#8221;, while observing that there is a room for improvement in the indirect tax regime. Gadkari, who holds MSME portfolio along with road transport, further said there is a need to build consensus with states to bring petroleum products and alcohol under the GST regime as the country has a federal structure. &#8220;This tax reform (GST) was very essential&#8230; though we have completed four years of GST, I feel there is room for improvement and we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}