According to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the Indian government is planning to implement the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime from 1 July 2017 instead of 1 April 2017 as originally planned ({News-2016-11-07/A/2- previous coverage}). The delay is due to difficulties in reaching agreement on how control of GST will be split between the Centre (Federal government) and the States. However, agreement has now been reached, and the government is confident that GST will be implemented 1 July…