When the Goods and Services Tax was announced at midnight, VIPs stayed awake, citizens had a sleepless night and many businessmen lost their sleep. Bengalis have been worried for a while because now a 5% GST will fall on rosogolla and sandesh. Clearly even a spoonful of sugar is now not available to make the bitter medicine go down. Sweets with a saffron or silver coating will now have to bear a 18-20% GST tax: there’s very little meetha with the khatta. Not that there’s much khatta available either for those keen on namkeen. With a 12% GST on snacks, the chips are down and the dhokla is khokla.
From tryst with destiny to tryst with tax, it’s now been seven Read More
