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India launches Goods and Services Tax

Geoff Riley

1st July 2017

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This is an important but incredibly complex tax reform for the Indian economy. The main aim is to achieve more consistency for indirect taxes across the disparate Indian economy and in doing so, to raise tax revenues to give the Indian government more resources to fund development programmes / widen access to public goods.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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