GST Reforms: Will the Common Man Truly Benefit?

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“Yet optimism must be tempered with caution. The lived reality of inflation tells another story. Food inflation continues to pinch households. Tomato, onion and grain prices have spiked repeatedly in recent months. For the consumer, whether GST on rice is zero or five percent is irrelevant if the retail price of rice itself has doubled. The government’s emphasis on lower GST rates does not directly address inflation caused by supply chain disruptions, middlemen, hoarding, or rising input costs. Moreover, many essential services that the middle class consumes—electricity, petrol, diesel—remain outside the GST net altogether. These are precisely

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