Another milestone has been achieved towards implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime from April 2017, as the government’s new and simpler GST portal gone live on November 8, for migrating tax payers. This will enable easy filing of returns and tax payments through credit/debit cards and other modes.
Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) Chairman Navin Kumar said that as much as 60 percent of the software required to run GST is ready and balanced 40 percent work is on process of completion. He said that about 80 lakh tax payers will be migrated from the existing system to GST regime. GSTN is not only building a network that will integrate the assesses paying service tax, excise and other local levies, but also it will help in building the IT backbone for online registration, refund, return filing and tax payment.
On the new portal, businessmen and traders who currently have to file separate returns for array of indirect taxes like excise duty, service tax and VAT, will file a single monthly return and pay tax online through various payment cards, including credit and debit. The GSTN is building four data centers spread across Delhi and Bengaluru to ensure that the data is safe, secure and to ensure data recovery, whenever required. A provisional identification number, called GSTIN for assesses who have moved to the new portal is being generated. New registrations under GST will start from April 2017.
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