UP wants GST compensation scheme to continue for five more years

Uttar Pradesh wants the Centre to continue the compensation scheme under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) for the next five years. And when the time comes, the central government should withdraw the compensation in phases and not at one go, the state government feels. The current five-year scheme ends in August 2022. Having put the demand to the 15th Central Finance Commission (CFC) that visited t…