GST crash courses: Coaching centres to help people grasp new tax concept

New Delhi: Avinash Gupta, an electronic components dealer at Lajpat Rai market in the Walled City, spent the whole of June trying to figure out the ways in which the newly unveiled Goods and Services Tax (GST) applies to his business. However, when all attempts at comprehension failed, he decided to enrol in a crash course offered by a city-based p

“I simply could not understand how factors such as the reverse-credit mechanism, debit note and credit note apply to my business. The government explained only the macro aspect of the GST to traders, but there are many micro factors that I found hard to practise on a day-to-day basis,” said Gupta.