If you knew the Licence Raj days, you wouldn’t complain about GST flip-flops

06 December, 2017

Constantly making changes to policies like GST shows that a government is responsive and open to course-correction, despite what critics say. 

Various experts in the pundit-republic of India have told us with supreme élan and wit that the frequent flip-flops with respect to our newest tax, the Goods and Services Tax (GST), show the government in a bad light. I beg to disagree.

Many readers of this splendid digital journal may have very little acquaintance with something that was quaintly called the Permit/Licence Raj. This writer spent two decades of his business career on the morning Indian Airlines (there was no other airline) flight from Bombay (as it was then called) to Delhi with the sole objective of meeting various bureaucratic chieftains, who laid down the law to us poor benighted businessmen.

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