Why there’s a need to stabilise the GST tech platform

On July 1 this year, Goods and Services Tax (GST) completed three years. It was on the midnight of July 1, 2017, that GST was unveiled with a lot of fanfare and hailed as a “good and simple tax”, “one country-one tax”, “a game-changer” and “a reform of the century”. The implementation of a destination-based, standard-invoice-credit-type GST in a large and diverse federal country, at both the natio…