For business and industry

♤ Easy compliance: Under a robust and comprehensive IT system, all tax payer services such as registrations, returns, payments, etc. would be available to the taxpayers online, which would make compliance easy and transparent.

♤ Uniformity of tax rates and structures: GST will ensure that indirect tax rates and structures are common across the country, thereby increasing certainty and ease of doing business. In other words, GST would make doing business in the country tax neutral, irrespective of the choice of place of doing business.

♤ Removal of cascading effect: A system of seamless tax-credits throughout the value-chain, and across boundaries of States, would ensure that there is minimal cascading of taxes. This would reduce hidden costs of doing business.

♤ Improved competitiveness: The subsuming of major Central and State taxes in GST, complete and comprehensive set-off of input goods and services and phasing out of Central Sales Tax (CST) would reduce the cost of locally manufactured goods and services. This will increase the competitiveness of Indian goods and services industry.

♤ Gain to manufacturers and exporters: The increased competitiveness of Indian industry in the international market will give boost to Indian exports. GST is estimated to increase the GDP growth by 1.5 to 2%.