On August 3, the Rajya Sabha (upper house of India's Parliament) passed the Constitution (122nd Amendment) (GST) Bill, 2014, allowing for the creation of a national “Goods and Services Tax” (GST). The vote came 15 months after the amendment was passed by the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) where Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a single-party majority.
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