Congress has long argued GST is "Growth Suppressing Tax": Jairam Ramesh says reforms inadequate

New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): The Congress on Sunday criticised PM Modi’a address on GST reforms and said that the party has long argued that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a Growth-Suppressing Tax and that the current reforms are inadequate.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh criticised the PM claiming ownership of the recent amendments to the GST regime.

In a post shared on X, Ramesh said, “The Prime Minister addressed the nation today to claim sole ownership of the amendments made to the GST regime by the GST Council, a constitutional body.”

The Congress leader also argued that the current structure is burdened with too many tax brackets, punitive rates on mass-consumption items, large-scale evasion and misclassification, high compliance costs, and an inverted duty structure