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title: "Who is the Chairman of the GST Council?"  
description: "Who is the Chairman of the GST Council?"  
author: "Chirag agarwal"  
published: 2017-11-14  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30485/who-is-the-chairman-of-the-gst-council  
category: "indian economy"  
tags: ["gst", "current affair"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Who is the Chairman of the GST Council?

Who is the Chairman of the [GST](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/12000/demonetization-and-gst-the-nightmares-of-an-msme) Council?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

![Who is the Chairman of the GST Council?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/c5e9d46b-3fd7-46c4-b79c-71e4dc9552d6/images/391b0c19-4762-4c01-8dc7-822cf0f1cde9.png)**Shri Arun Jaitley** is the chairman of the **GST (Goods and service) council in India**. He is also the **finance minister** of our country. Arun Jaitley was **born on 28 December 1952** is a **lawyer, finance minister and also the minister of corporate affairs.** He is a senior member of current ruling party **BJP (Bhartiya Janta Party).** Jaitely has also served as a leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha.

GST is basically an **indirect tax** which introduced on **1st July 2017** and after its implementation throughout India by **GST multi cascading tax** got avoided. \

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