Live chat: All you need to know about GST

A shopping trolley is pushed around a supermarket in London, Britain May 19, 2015. Britain's annual rate of consumer price inflation fell below zero for the first time in more than half a century, official figures showed on Tuesday, though Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said the dip was likely to be brief. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

Why call it unified tax when Centre and State will be collecting GST? I am planning to buy a car. Will I pay more or less after GST comes to effect? Why is Tamil Nadu against GST while West Bengal is for it?

Your questions on the proposed Goods and Services Tax were answered by Pramod Banthia Partner Indirect Tax, PwC, Suresh Seshadri, Business Editor, The Hindu, and Special Correspondent TCA Sharad Raghavan.

0) { position = [document.documentElement.scrollLeft,document.documentElement.scrollTop]; } else if (typeof document.body.scrollTop != 'undefined') { position = [document.body.scrollLeft,document.body.scrollTop]; } return position; } function cil_getCurrentStyle(elem, prop) { if( elem.currentStyle ) { var ar = prop.match(/\w[^-]*/g); var s = ar[0]; for(var i = 1; i < ar.length; ++i) { s += ar[i].replace(/\w/, ar[i].charAt(0).toUpperCase()); } return elem.currentStyle[s] } else if( document.defaultView.getComputedStyle ) { return document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(elem, null).getPropertyValue(prop); } } function cil_setSizes() { document.getElementById('viewingtoolbar').style.width = document.getElementById('altcast_title').offsetWidth + 'px'; var oElement = document.getElementById('pageborder'); if (oElement) { borderHeight = cil_getCurrentStyle(oElement, 'border-top-width'); pageborderHeight = borderHeight.substring(0,borderHeight.length-2); } else { pageborderHeight = 0; } maxheight = 650 - (pageborderHeight*2); chatholderheight = (maxheight-document.getElementById('viewingtoolbar').offsetHeight-document.getElementById('viewingfooter').offsetHeight-document.getElementById('altcast_title').offsetHeight-9); document.getElementById('mainchat').style.height = chatholderheight + 'px'; } //-->

maxItemWidth) { jqCIL(this).css("width",maxItemWidth); } }); var newwidth = maxwidth - 90; var images = document.getElementsByName("cilimage"); for(var i=0;i newwidth) { images[i].width = newwidth; } } }

>