GST not easy to implement but tax base expansion will benefit all: Jaitley

Arun Jaitley said, 'Got a great amount of public support for GST as people have become "restless'

The goods and services tax (GST) was not an “easy reform to implement” but it has evoked “great” public support with the government deciding not to blink in the face of Opposition to the new taxation measure, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Sunday.

“We have today reached a stage of history where there is a great amount of popular support behind reforms because people have become restless. They are not willing to be satisfied with a situation wherein India cannot reach up to its potential,” he said in Chennai, while addressing a GST Conclave organised by various industry bodies.