{
 "no": 3,
 "id": "case-3",
 "sk": 20170701,
 "year": 2017,
 "date": "01 Jul 2017",
 "cat": "Economic shock",
 "sev": "amber",
 "title": "GST. Compliance chaos loaded onto the small",
 "stamp": "Patched, never owned",
 "human": {
  "v": "Millions of small firms and traders squeezed by filing burden and blocked cash flow",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Delayed state compensation ran into <b>tens of thousands of crore</b>",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "A single indirect tax replaced a tangle of central and state levies. A genuine reform, launched with too many slabs, endless rule changes and a portal that buckled.",
 "dodge": "The cost of a rushed launch was dumped on small businesses, and the states' promised compensation arrived late and grudgingly. The rules were patched again and again, but the disruption was never once owned as a failure of preparation.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Arun Jaitley",
   "r": "Finance Minister and GST Council chair"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government credits GST with ending tax-on-tax and building one national market.",
 "alt": "Fewer slabs, a stable rulebook, a tested IT backbone before launch, a real small-business threshold, and compensation paid on time.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "GST Council 9th meeting minutes: 1 July 2017 rollout",
   "url": "https://gstcouncil.gov.in/sites/default/files/Minutes/signed-minutes-9th-gst-council_meeting.pdf",
   "tier": 1,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250821002442/https://www.gstcouncil.gov.in/sites/default/files/Minutes/signed-minutes-9th-gst-council_meeting.pdf"
  },
  {
   "label": "The Hindu: delays in GST compensation to States",
   "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/business/gst-cess-falls-42-short-in-fy20/article32206702.ece",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20220419151325/https://www.thehindu.com/business/gst-cess-falls-42-short-in-fy20/article32206702.ece"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "costInrCrore": 10000
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-3/"
}