With the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rolling out on 1 July, everyone is scrambling to make sense of the tax while the Opposition has taken a decision to not support the rollout.
All over the country, the mood of people is confused, with lots of protests getting staged against the tax and sales being held to get rid of the stock owners have.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia at his office at North Block before addressing the media on GST in New Delhi.
Congress chose to pull out from the midnight GST session, saying that they don’t support its hasty implementation.
Traders burning an effigy during protest against GST at Kirti Nagar furniture market in New Delhi on Wednesday. Such protests have been springing up in several parts of the country.
Local Amritsar traders staged a protest on 27 June, days before the rolling out of GST.
A banner at a wholesale market in Bengaluru opposing the high taxation.
Hoardings of “One Nation, One Tax” have gone up all over the country.
Officials at GST Seva Kendra office of the Commissioner of Excise and Service Tax work for the implementation of GST in Bengaluru.
Pre-GST sales are becoming common as shopkeepers and wholesalers want to get rid of their existing stocks. There is also concern among retailers and shoppers alike that online shopping will become more expensive from 1 July.
A barber giving a customer a shave in Kolkata as shops shut in protest of the new tax regime.
People have started stocking up on medicines, fearing their prices would rise after the GST kicks in.
Shops closed at Burrabazar during a bandh against GST in Kolkata on Wednesday.
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