tonight," he told the revenue officials. NEW DELHI: Ahead of the rollout of GST , Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today sought to address concerns of job loss from reduced work of tax officials, saying they should have no insecurity as enough work and opportunities will be available to them in the new indirect tax regime. "The number of people required, the kind of opportunity will remain unchanged except that the nature of activity itself changes," he said.GST, he said, has for last several yeas been considered as a larger part of policy consensus in India and an important taxation reform that will lead to the economic integration of the country. "Once it takes place you have a situation where taxes (that) are levied by the state (and) by Centre (will) all be integrated into one and therefore resulting in one assessment. "This is an ongoing process it will continue and we will all have to adjust ourselves with this particular change.

Source: Economic Times January 27, 2017 15:56 UTC