New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday that passing the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill was just a matter of time.
"When the bill is put to vote, I see it going through," said Jaitley at the World Economic Forum here.
Jaitley said here last week that the government would make all efforts to pass the GST bill in the forthcoming winter session of parliament.
Yesterday, Jaitley had said that he was willing to reach out to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to get the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Bill passed in Parliament.
"I would try and persuade the main opposition party to help clear the Bill as soon as possible, because it is going to be one of the most important reforms in the country," Jaitley had said.
The GST, which will subsume more than a dozen state levies to create a single market, is to be implemented from April next year. But, the deadline may be missed if Parliament does not pass the Constitution Amendment Bill in the upcoming winter session, which Arun Jaitley and his team is looking to avoid.
The Congress is opposed to some provisions of the Bill and has asked the government to incorporate the changes it wants.
