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Surely now is the time for GST to be slashed? It is absurd that things like ACs are classified as Luxury items and taxed at 28% GST. ACs should be a human right in India's weather. Slashing GST on such items will also help our manufacturers. This year we will produce some 11-13 million ACs and sales should also be in that range. The target should be at least 30 million in the next few years.

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Absolute pea brain decision to club consumer durables as luxury. Typical poverty mindset of indian babus. The aim for the next decade is to make every consumer good as cheap as possible to boost penetration of these items to >80%.
Reduce GST on following:

Health Insurance
Car Insurance
Air Conditioners
Automotive parts
Automobiles
 

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IK but Tesla's market share is down to 6.6%. Only a matter of time before they drop below 2-3% - possibly even lower. Once chinkus are done absorbing the know-how and the know-why not a single phoren company can survive in that country. Happened with Samsung. Now happening with Tesla and Apple (whose market share dropped below 16%). Eventually, Musk will have to make that shift (to India or anywhere else). Chinku markets are by design not meant for phoren tech giants - a feature, not a bug! This is possibly Musk's last ditch attempt to stay relevant in that nation....
Huawei killed Samsung in this way, Apple is next after the Huawei ban in US and promotion of "buy Chinese phones" programs and farmans by CCP, earlier Apple used to survive because Chinkus wanted to show off their high status by buying Apple. :bplease:

A similar thing is going to happen to Tesla and eventually BYD will kill them in the Luxury segment.

They didn't manage to clone x86-64 or made anything close to it else Intel & AMD would be on their way out compared to what lies that wumao roasteddog was spewing.
I don't like the Chinkus, but i feel very nice seeing whites grovelling, begging and doing Mujra :basanti: infront of non-whites like Elon, Tim Apple and those Volkswagen Germans do on the regular in China :bplease:
 

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Surely now is the time for GST to be slashed? It is absurd that things like ACs are classified as Luxury items and taxed at 28% GST. ACs should be a human right in India's weather. Slashing GST on such items will also help our manufacturers. This year we will produce some 11-13 million ACs and sales should also be in that range. The target should be at least 30 million in the next few years.

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Absolute pea brain decision to club consumer durables as luxury. Typical poverty mindset of indian babus. The aim for the next decade is to make every consumer good as cheap as possible to boost penetration of these items to >80%.

The current heatwave is so bad that AC sales in many cities are literally doubling and there is a severe shortage of labour who are skilled in installation, fixing etc. This is with 28% GST
Reduce GST on following:

Health Insurance
Car Insurance
Air Conditioners
Automotive parts
Automobiles
They have to meet Gobi ji's (((collection))) targets, those welfare schemes won't fund themselves you know.
Unless you want to follow Raulji's route of burning the treasury on free maal and then begging the IMF
 

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In order to increase consumption, Govt. should simply do away with GST.

0 tax on consumption.

Think of all the jewrbs it would create reee.
2.5-5% GST uniformly on everything. 10% on luxury items like jewellery wagera.
 

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This has been the single biggest failure of Modi government. They have completely neglected this sector thanks to incompetent scum ministers like Piyush Goyal. Our garment exports have stagnated around $10-12 billion in the last decade while they have crossed 50 billion. Even $1 billion of additional exports will easily sustain 1 lakh direct employment. To make things worse, most indian middle class are exclusively or increasingly shopping at Zara, Uniqlo, Reliance etc, who source substantial amount of their clothes from bangladesh and import it here, which is why our textile imports are increasing.


And looking at yarn demand prices, looks like things will get even worse.

Congratulation to BD on their excellent achievement. keep it up. India has a lot to learn here from BD.
 

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No. American Companies never able to crack Indian Automobile Sector. All of them failed in either one way or another.

GM (Chevrolet) - Poor Management. Failed Products. Mediocre offerings during end of Times.
Ford - Same. No model Refresh.
Dodge, GMC, Lincoln - Never tried and don't have product that fits Indian Market.

Harley Davidson - Failed across World including their own Markets. Now surviving in India using Hero Motocorp.

I have raised the obstacle for Tesla. Their current offerings were basically in the Luxury segment and Tesla goes through Giga factory where the production rate is high. Indian Luxury segment is very small and Tesla cannot justify their investment.

Unless there is car from Tesla in the price bracket of 15L-25L. Then only they can some demand.
We had a case study of GM failure in India. They changed too many CEO and bough their European cars to India without customization. The most beautiful definition of Quality I ever cam across was " Quality is conformance to requirement ".

You bring here cars which may be good for Europe of US but does not meet Indian customer's aspirations than you will fail. You need to give good engine, Good fuel efficiency and good service. This is the key to success in Indian market. Rather you bring those features which are not sought by Indian customers and hope to impose those on customers than definitely it will not be well comed.
 

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We had a case study of GM failure in India. They changed too many CEO and bough their European cars to India without customization. The most beautiful definition of Quality I ever cam across was " Quality is conformance to requirement ".

You bring here cars which may be good for Europe of US but does not meet Indian customer's aspirations than you will fail. You need to give good engine, Good fuel efficiency and good service. This is the key to success in Indian market. Rather you bring those features which are not sought by Indian customers and hope to impose those on customers than definitely it will not be well comed.
GM kind of failed all around the world except their main US market - Russia, Brazil, Australia and India.
 

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2.5-5% GST uniformly on everything. 10% on luxury items like jewellery wagera.
Bhai I was joking about doing away with GST.

There is absolutely no room for reducing GST.

We are staring at 8th pay commission by 2025-26 which could add a burden of more than 1-1.2 lakh crore on the exchequer, maybe more.

Govt. will have to look for ingenious ways of indirect taxation through more cess or will have to reduce budgetary allocation towards infrastructure spending.

Whichever Govt. takes oath in June will have its task cut out. I anticipate more taxes or reduced Govt. spending.

Lets see.

Will states keep quiet if their share of GST goes down? They will be the first ones to start chimping out.
 

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Bhai I was joking about doing away with GST.

There is absolutely no room for reducing GST.

We are staring at 8th pay commission by 2025-26 which could add a burden of more than 1-1.2 lakh crore on the exchequer, maybe more.

Govt. will have to look for ingenious ways of indirect taxation through more cess or will have to reduce budgetary allocation towards infrastructure spending.

Whichever Govt. takes oath in June will have its task cut out. I anticipate more taxes or reduced Govt. spending.

Lets see.

Will states keep quiet if their share of GST goes down? They will be the first ones to start chimping out.
They should work upon a tax regime that can spur consumption growth while simultaneously increasing GST revenue growth. There won't be any ideal rate but they should look for the sweet spot.
 

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They should work upon a tax regime that can spur consumption growth while simultaneously increasing GST revenue growth. There won't be any ideal rate but they should look for the sweet spot.
Reducing number of slabs won't work (look up Ajay Rotti for more inaights); the esteemed columnists and critics of the GST regime just don't get it. The tax structure has issues beyond that.

Here's Mihir Sharma shamelessly simping for TikTok, writing as a prolific reels connoisseur, with zero evidence or facts.

Idk why ORF has this pig amidst them.


Life After TikTok Isn’t So Fun. Just Ask India

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-01/india-s-tiktok-ban-has-had-unseen-costs
He is a clown. Ignore.
 

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