India's Gandhi vows to reform sales tax, seek investment as poll nears


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  • Sunday, 13 Jan 2019

FILE PHOTO: Rahul Gandhi speaks at an event in Singapore March 8, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas White/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's main opposition Congress party will simplify the goods and services tax (GST) and take "rational economic decisions" to attract foreign investment if voted back to power in a general election due by May, its leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday.

Launched in 2017, the GST was initially hailed as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biggest economic reform as it replaced more than a dozen federal and state levies and unified Asia's third largest economy.

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