In order to address any tax issue that can come up in sectors related to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the department has constituted the Goods and Services Tax (GST) facilitation cell. DIPP has said that the department will be in constant touch with the major industry and business associations relating to it and this cell will also help to facilitate the rollout of GST.
The GST facilitation cell headed by Economic Advisor Sudhansu Sekhar Das will serve as the first point of contact for addressing any issue regarding GST. On the same lines, recently, the Department of Commerce also constituted a similar cell and a help desk to aid exporters and importers.
The new GST regime will subsume central excise, service tax and state VAT among other indirect levies on manufactured goods and services. DIPP looks after policies related to sectors including leather, cement, paper, salt and explosives.