when did bc switch from hst to gst
Sales taxes in British Columbia On 1 July 2010, the PST and GST were combined into the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) levied according to the provisions of the GST. The conversion to HST was controversial. Popular opposition led to a referendum on the tax system, the first such referendum in the Commonwealth of Nations, resulting in the province reverting to the former PST/GST model on 1 April 2013.
Goods and Services Tax (India) The reform process of India's indirect tax regime was started in 1986 by Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Finance Minister in Rajiv Gandhiâ€™s government, with the introduction of the Modified Value Added Tax (MODVAT). Subsequently, Manmohan Singh, then Finance Minister under of P V Narasimha Rao, initiated early discussions on a Value Added Tax at the state level.[6] A single common "Goods and Services Tax (GST)" was proposed and given a go-ahead in 1999 during a meeting between then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his economic advisory panel, which included three former RBI governors IG Patel, Bimal Jalan and C Rangarajan. Vajpayee set up a committee headed by the then finance minister of West Bengal, Asim Dasgupta to design a GST model.[7]