New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- The income tax relief provided for in the 2025-26 Budget, coupled with GST rate rationalisation, is set to further push India's economy to another level, Union minister and BJP leader Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters Saturday, addressing a presser from the party headquarters.

"Before 2014, the taxation system was very complex and goods were taxed at multiple levels. GST has made it simple. This rationalisation and simplification in GST reforms will make people's lives easier," he said at the presser.

All daily-use goods saw GST reduced under the next-generation reforms, he said.

"The promise PM Modi had made from the ramparts of the Red Fort have been fulfilled," he said.

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