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Then President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching GST
Monika Yadav New Delhi
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Sep 16 2026 | 12:18 AM
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In the 1991 Budget, the then finance minister Manmohan Singh set the broad principle of tax reform — lowering the maximum marginal rate of tax, simplifying procedures, having fewer concessions and rationalising the average income tax rate at various levels of income. Singh also resorted to an amnesty scheme to unearth previously untaxed income.


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