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BITING THE TAX BULLET
India Today
|January 12, 2026
India moved closer to its ambition of One India, One Tax, even if it has far to go in making it truly good and simple
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Seventeen years after it was proposed, India moved closer to 'one nation, one tax' when it implemented the Goods and Services tax on July 1, 2017.
This story is from the January 12, 2026 edition of India Today.
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