Poor in India paying more of income in tax due to GST, says LSE expert, faces flack - India Today

An anthropologist at the London School of Economics, Mukulika Banerjee, argued that poorer Indians pay a larger share of their income in GST than the rich. Experts, however, countered that most daily-use essentials consumed by poorer households are either GST-free or taxed at just 5%. Mukulika Banerjee is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. (Image: LSE website) The poor…