Mitra-led panel lost relevance: Sushil Modi

Opening a new battle front with the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi on Friday said the Empowered Committee (EC), headed by West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra has outlived its purpose and lost relevance after the GST launch. Mitra, as chairman of the EC, has called a meeting of all state finance ministers to discuss issues relating to revenue resources outside GST and the scope of taxation, apart from the unified tax, in New Delhi, on December 14. “With the replacement of VAT, excise duty, service tax with GST, the EC has completed the task assigned to it,” he wrote. PTI