GST improved transparency, widened tax base, increased purchasing power, say experts

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The participants of ICSSR-sponsored seminar connected  GST astatine  SPMVV field  successful  Tirupati connected  Friday.

The participants of ICSSR-sponsored seminar connected GST astatine SPMVV field successful Tirupati connected Friday. | Photo Credit: K.V. POORNACHANDRA KUMAR

Speakers astatine a store connected Friday (February 13, 2026) connected “Socio-economic interaction of GST instauration and reforms connected the depletion signifier of the mediate and neo mediate classes with sex perspective” shed airy connected the value of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) successful bettering the lives of the mediate classes, particularly women.

The capableness gathering store jointly organised by Sri Padmavati Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam (SPMVV) Department of Women’s Studies and the New Delhi-based Centre for Women’s Development Studies brought unneurotic radical from assorted walks of beingness specified arsenic economists, accountants, entrepreneurs, taxation experts, and academicians.

CGST & Customs Commissioner (Tirupati) Satish Dhavale shared however the GST streamlined indirect taxation, improved transparency, widened the taxation base, and besides strengthened compliance mechanisms.

Similarly, the GST 2.0 led to rationalisation of taxation rates that resulted successful little taxes and it, successful turn, indirectly improved savings. “This accrued the purchasing powerfulness benefitted the mediate and neo-middle people households,” Mr. Dhavale noted.

SPMVV Registrar R. Usha said that specified policy-oriented world programmes would assistance young researchers successful subjects similar taxation and nationalist argumentation summation insights successful real-time economical developments.

G. Ramamani, Assistant Commissioner, Central Tax & Customs, explained the applicable aspects of GST implementation and its interaction connected tiny businesses and women entrepreneurs. A. Parthasaradhi, Chairman of ICMAI, Tirupati, spoke connected depletion patterns nether GST 2.0, organisation effects and women’s relation successful decisions pertaining to expenditure.

SVU retired prof of economics D. Krishnamoorthy, chartered accountants M.C. Venkatanath and Bhagya Teja, SPMVV adjunct prof of Law G. Indira Priyadarshini, entrepreneur C. Komala, writer S.V. Bharathi discussed manufacture perspectives, MSME experiences and ineligible aspects.

SPMVV’s P. Neeraja and CWDS typical Vandana acted arsenic the lawsuit coordinators.

Published - February 13, 2026 08:56 p.m. IST

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