Amit Mitra

The West Bengal government on Friday wrote to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urging her to call a special meeting of the GST Council to address cases of massive overregulation and the current state of the MSMEs that have registered under the GST regime. Dr Amit Mitra, the principal chief advisor to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as well to the finance department, said in a letter to Sitharaman that the "labyrinthine regulatory structures have engulfed MSMEs in particular, dragging them to an abyss". "I urge you to call a special and exclusive meeting of the GST Council to address the case of massive overregulation and the current state of the MSMEs who have dared to register under the GST regime in their quest to become formal," Mitra wrote in the three-page letter. The former state finance minister's call for the special meeting came a day before the 49th GST Council meeting is scheduled to take place on Saturday in New Delhi. The meeting will be held two ...

Mitra underscored his point with the number of times notifications and amendments in laws had been made

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Mitra said India is already suffering from rising inflation and unemployment simultaneously

The former state finance minister has acquired a new powerful advisory role that must build on his earlier achievements

Mitra will have the rank of cabinet minister in the statem will advise and aid the Chief Minister and finance dept on all matters relating to management of state finance

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Mitra said that the GST Council was the only federalist institution, but in the last few years, an omnipotent, authoritarian and majoritarian approach was creeping into the GST Council.

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