Nine months after the Goods and Services Tax was ushered in, taxpayers are beginning to enter the comfort zone in filing their returns. But experts feel that a lot more can be done by the GST Council and the GSTN to bring within the GST fold those still outside it. Tanushree Roy, Director shares her views on aforementioned story for Hindu Business Line- Front page/first story.

The government had said the goods and services tax (GST) law’s ‘anti-profiteering’ clause will seldom be invoked and used only in cases of mass importance and of a national import, but barely a month into its existence, the Director-General of Safeguards (DG-S), the investigating arm of the authority concerned, has already got cracking. Tanushree Roy, Associate Director shares her views on Anti-profiteering crackdown: McDonald’s, Honda, HUL dealer caught in net; firms’ balance sheets under scanner now for Financial Express- Front page story.

Consumers now have recourse against arbitrary price hikes by from manufacturers under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) with the government now notifying the form for complaints to the National Anti-Profiteering Authority. The form requires basic details of the complainant, the seller or supplier and the product involved as well as information such as the GST Identification Number (GSTIN) and the tax component. Tanushree Roy, Associate Director shares her views on aforementioned story for Hindu Business Line.