Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday urged GST officials to avoid taking a tough stance on taxpayers at the outset of any enquiry and opt for more stringent steps only as ‘a last resort’, even as she assured industry of swift efforts to resolve any niggles in the indirect tax regime that pose a hindrance to their business.
Officials, the Minister said, must enforce GST well, but do it softly. “There should be no doubt in your [businesses’] mind about GST and if there is an issue, its resolution won’t take time because nowadays, even in the GST Council, I am seeing that whether it is the Ministers or the officials, they are agile in studying a subject and coming up with a solution,” Ms. Sitharaman said.
Source: The Hindu
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