It’s a Goods and Services Tax (GST) that came out for India as an indirect tax system under one head to replace the various indirect taxes such as VAT, service tax, and excise duty with effect from July 01, 2017, to simplify the taxation process in the country. The main intention was to create a tax system to be called “one nation, one tax,” making compliance easy and boosting transparency in business transactions.

GST can be classified into three categories from the point of view of nature of the transaction; they include:

• CGST (Central GST): Which is levied on an intra-state sale by the central government.
• SGST (State GST): Which is levied on an intra-state sale by the state government.
• IGST (Integrated GST): Which is levied on inter-state transactions and falls under the head of central government for collection.

Having said that, India’s GST tax system has been formulated by defining multiple tax slabs such as 5%, 12%, 18%, and 28%, depending on the type of goods or services. Generally, it has been observed that essential appeals are placed in the lower slabs, while luxury ones go as high as possible.