3/4th of taxpayer base linked with GST network

Over threefourth of the existing taxpayer base -comprising those paying central excise, VAT and service tax -have been enrolled with the GST Network (GSTN), the technology backbone for the new tax regime. In a presentation to the GST Council on Saturday , GSTN told Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and his colleagues from the states that 86% of the over 62,000 central and state tax department em…