Jun 30, 2017 19:16 (IST)
Arvind Subramanian on consideration to delay GST
At some stage you know you can't keep talking about having a GST. You have to actually do it and then hope that things will improve over time.
I think that there's also the sense that now that it's going to happen, now that people know it's going to happen, the advantage of a credible deadline is that it just forces people to get to speed with preparation and I think probably in the last two to three weeks a lot of that has happened, obviously not fully but I expect that over time, next you know 3 to 6 months we should tide over these challenges.
At some stage you know you can't keep talking about having a GST. You have to actually do it and then hope that things will improve over time.
I think that there's also the sense that now that it's going to happen, now that people know it's going to happen, the advantage of a credible deadline is that it just forces people to get to speed with preparation and I think probably in the last two to three weeks a lot of that has happened, obviously not fully but I expect that over time, next you know 3 to 6 months we should tide over these challenges.