Analysing Public Sentiment on GST Implementation in India

Goods and Service Tax(GST) was proposed by the government of India as a `one tax one nation scheme' replacing all cascading tax into a single tax called as GST. The GST is India's biggest tax reform which impacts people belonging to every class. Therefore, GST was discussed lot among people in the society. By analyzing social data related to GST we can identify public opinion towards this scheme, which can further help the government to do some amendment to implement this scheme effectively. Now a day millions of people are active in online microblogging sites such as Twitter and share their opinion about an entity, service or scheme. Sentiment Analysis provides a way to determine the emotions behind social media discussions. In this paper, we present sentiment analysis of GST by using the textual content of Twitter to determine the public opinion about GST. People's opinion may play a very important role in implementing this amendment effectively. After the execution of this work, we observe that the people of India are not giving a warm response to GST due to difficulty in implementing this scheme and confusion.