<p>New Delhi: Prime Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</a> on Sunday sought states' cooperation to implement the next-generation reforms in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime as the Central government has already circulated the draft among them for study.</p>.<p>At an event after the inauguration of two expressways, Modi said the GST reform would benefit the poor and the middle class, as well as businesses.</p>.<p>Insisting that the Union government was keen on simplifying the GST law and revising tax rates, he said: "I hope that all states will cooperate in the initiatives of the Central government."</p>.<p>Modi announced the proposal to reform the GST law in his Independence Day speech on Friday from the Red Fort. </p>.PM Modi accuses Opposition of maintaining unjust, regressive laws while in power.<p>The GST Council is expected to meet next month to deliberate on the tax-reform proposal.</p>.<p>The current GST tax rates — zero on essential food items, 5 per cent on daily-use products, 12 per cent on standard goods, 18 per cent on electronic goods and services, and 28 per cent on luxury and sin goods — are expected to be replaced by two tax slabs of 5 per cent and 18 per cent, besides plus a special 40 per cent top bracket for five to seven demerit goods.</p>.<p>On Sunday, Modi also pitched for becoming "vocal for local", exhorting Indians to buy made-in-India products, stating, "If you are Indian, buy what is made in India."</p>.<p>He also took a swipe at Opposition leaders, saying those who "dance with a copy of the Constitution on their head" had maintained unjust and regressive laws while in power, trampling the spirit of the Constitution.</p>.<p>The PM also said Opposition parties had not been able to digest the BJP's success in Delhi and its adjoining states — Haryana, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh.</p>
<p>New Delhi: Prime Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</a> on Sunday sought states' cooperation to implement the next-generation reforms in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime as the Central government has already circulated the draft among them for study.</p>.<p>At an event after the inauguration of two expressways, Modi said the GST reform would benefit the poor and the middle class, as well as businesses.</p>.<p>Insisting that the Union government was keen on simplifying the GST law and revising tax rates, he said: "I hope that all states will cooperate in the initiatives of the Central government."</p>.<p>Modi announced the proposal to reform the GST law in his Independence Day speech on Friday from the Red Fort. </p>.PM Modi accuses Opposition of maintaining unjust, regressive laws while in power.<p>The GST Council is expected to meet next month to deliberate on the tax-reform proposal.</p>.<p>The current GST tax rates — zero on essential food items, 5 per cent on daily-use products, 12 per cent on standard goods, 18 per cent on electronic goods and services, and 28 per cent on luxury and sin goods — are expected to be replaced by two tax slabs of 5 per cent and 18 per cent, besides plus a special 40 per cent top bracket for five to seven demerit goods.</p>.<p>On Sunday, Modi also pitched for becoming "vocal for local", exhorting Indians to buy made-in-India products, stating, "If you are Indian, buy what is made in India."</p>.<p>He also took a swipe at Opposition leaders, saying those who "dance with a copy of the Constitution on their head" had maintained unjust and regressive laws while in power, trampling the spirit of the Constitution.</p>.<p>The PM also said Opposition parties had not been able to digest the BJP's success in Delhi and its adjoining states — Haryana, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh.</p>
