New Delhi: Continuing his attack on the Centre, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said the NDA’s Goods and Services Tax is not a tax system but an attack on India’s poor and on its small and medium businesses.
He dubbed the GST as ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’, and added that it is the second major attack on India’s unorganised economy. He also said it is an ‘absolute failure’. He had earlier said demonetisation was the first attack on the informal sector in the economy.
As part of his video series on the economy, the former Congress president alleged that the NDA government has kept four different tax slabs to help those big industrialists with means and contacts to change the taxes under the GST regime.
“This GST is an absolute failure. Not only is it unsuccessful, it is an attack on the poor and on the small and medium businesses,” he said.
He added: “GST is not a tax system, it is an attack on India’s poor. It is an attack on small shopkeepers, small and medium businesses, farmers and labourers. We have to recognise this attack and stand against it together.”