From Gabbar Singh Tax to Great Selfish Tax, the game for GST acronyms seems far from over

Since its implementation in July this year, GST (Goods and Services Tax) has seen far too many full-forms than one would have ever expected.

By: News Desk |
November 7, 2017 11:14 am

After Rahul Gandhi called it the ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has given GST a new full form, ‘Great Selfish Tax’. While PM Narendra Modi might want to explain the spirit of GST (Goods and Services Tax) as ‘Growing Stronger Together’, his political opponents are losing no opportunity to trash GST’s implementation.

Great Selfish Tax (GST) to harass the people.To take away jobs. To hurt businesses. To finish the economy. GoI totally failed to tackle #GST

— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) November 6, 2017

Mamata pointed out how the GST was actually harming India’s economy instead of bettering it. She also requested people to change their Twitter DPs (display pictures) to black to protest against the Noteban/demonetisation, which completes its one year of implementation on November 8.

#Noteban is a disaster. On #Nov8BlackDay to protest against this scam that destroyed the economy, let us also change our Twitter DP to black

— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) November 6, 2017

In past, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi expanded GST as Gabbar Singh Tax, which started a thread on Twitter where people were coming up with their own full forms. Replying to the thread asking people to give their own full-forms of GST, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister responded with ‘Greatly Screwed-up Tax’.

pic.twitter.com/vGM9B5LFuD

— sheikh haroon (@haroonsheikh786) October 23, 2017

Greatly Screwed-up Tax

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) October 23, 2017

Since its implementation in July, GST has witnessed a lot of criticism as well as support from different quarters of the society. For some who didn’t understand how the tax would work, it was Ghanta Simple Tax. For still others, who thought the tax to be good for the country’s economy, it was Good and Simple Tax.

Ghanta simple tax

— aman kohli (@as_kohli) October 23, 2017

Gambhir Sankat Tax

— Apoorva (@AppyK_08) October 23, 2017

God Save Taxpayers !

— Cha Cha (@TheLegendChap) October 23, 2017

#GST #GSTForNewIndia #GSTSimplified #GSTForCommonMan
Full form: Go Sleep Tension-free
Any other ideas for a full form?

— Ruby (@mukeshnt) July 10, 2017

Spotted: #RahulGhandhi & #MamataBanerjee laying future rules for their new full form battles. #GabbarSinghTax #GreatSelfishTax #GST pic.twitter.com/aanCOTFf6S

— Namoji (@namoji_app) November 6, 2017

Even GST would not have been mentally-prepared for so many crazy full-forms!