Drop in income tax e-filers: Gains accrued from GST, demonetisation not enough, need to increase employment opportunities

Demonetisation and GST were two schemes that were brought in by the government ostensibly to bring out black money and get everyone into the tax fold. Prior to these policies, there were amnesty schemes, also called income disclosure schemes that were introduced by the government to give a chance to the public to come clean and pay taxes. The niggling issue was that with a population of nearly 130…