GST will aggravate India’s huge tax litigation problem

Litigation, said Ambrose Bierce, is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. To get a sense of how many pigs are being turned into sausages in India, or how severe the problem of lawsuits can get, look no further than this year’s Economic Survey. It points out that more than 200,000 tax cases, amounting to nearly 4.7% of India’s gross domestic product (GDP), are stuck in…