West Bengal Goods and Services Tax Ordinance tabled

The West Bengal Goods and Services Tax Ordinance, 2017 has been tabled in the state Assembly on Friday.

There will be a discussion on it for four hours on Monday and Tuesday in the Assembly.

On Monday, there will be introduction and consideration of the

West Bengal Goods and Services Tax Bill, 2017. Again on Tuesday, the discussion

will continue followed

by the process of passing of the Bill.

There will be discussions for two hours on both Monday and Tuesday.

The Opposition has submitted in the Assembly on Friday that they have got 15 minutes for discussion on the Bill and urged some more time to discuss on it.

On June 24, the ordinance had to be passed following the decision taken by the state government for implementing the Goods and Services Tax.

It may be recalled that the state government had

fought till end so that the GST do not leave a bad impact on common people, traders small and medium scale entrepreneurs.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had lashed out at the Centre for hasty

implementation of GST when the country was not

prepared to get into the new tax regime.