The Curious Case of 900 Amendments: India’s GST Grift
The Curious Case of 900 Amendments: India’s GST Grift Goods and Services Tax and the Authoritarian Capture of the Taxing Power in India (2016–2026) Posted on 7th November, 2026 (GMT 06:57 hrs) Curated by Seize Dalal Street and Moneyless Commons Authored by AKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY ⤡ DEBAPRASAD BANDYOPADHYAY ⤡ This essay does not ask whether the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is well designed. That question has already been answered—by the government’s own fiscal establishment, and, since September 2025, by the government itself, which abolished two of its own slabs. It asks the graver question the concession leaves open: what kind of levy has been rewritten some nine hundred times by instruments that never passed through a legislature, whose operative text the person who must pay it cannot reconstruct from official sources, whose constitutional forum has not met for the better part of a year, whose appellate tribunal was withheld for eight years, and whose retrospective amendments are...