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An empowered committee was set up by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 2000.
In his budget speech on 28 February 2006, P. Chidambaram, the then Finance Minister,
announced the target date for implementation of GST to be 1 April 2010 and formed
another empowered committee of State Finance Ministers to design the roadmap.
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Although rates would come down, tax collection would go up due to increased tax
elasticity. The government is working on a special IT platform for smooth
implementation of the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST).