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Meeting in the morning and letter by evening – 18.08.2017

Members have been contacting from various corners seeking information regarding what happened in the meeting on 18.08.2017. In brief I can only say that the meeting took place and that the Member (Admn) heard our points, though within a stiff time frame.  Since the seating within the hall was limited and 16 Associations had been invited, he had to break the meeting into two with Associations representing the Group C Non ministerial and Group C Ministerial being called in first.  In the second session we participated.  We got an opportunity to explain our points in brief and Member (Admn) said that he would examine and do the needful. However, Member accepted our plea that the Board should issue instructions like the CBDT, regarding implementation of the N.R.Parmar judgement so that delay of DPC on that count could be avoided. Further details could be deduced only once the minutes are issued. When one of the Office bearers asked the Member (Admn) whether the meeting would ...

Meeting in the morning and letter by evening – 18.08.2017

Members have been contacting from various corners seeking information regarding what happened in the meeting on 18.08.2017. In brief I can only say that the meeting took place and that the Member (Admn) heard our points, though within a stiff time frame.  Since the seating within the hall was limited and 16 Associations had been invited, he had to break the meeting into two with Associations representing the Group C Non ministerial and Group C Ministerial being called in first.  In the second session we participated.  We got an opportunity to explain our points in brief and Member (Admn) said that he would examine and do the needful. However, Member accepted our plea that the Board should issue instructions like the CBDT, regarding implementation of the N.R.Parmar judgement so that delay of DPC on that count could be avoided. Further details could be deduced only once the minutes are issued. When one of the Office bearers asked the Member (Admn) whether the meetin...

Meeting with Member (Admn) on 18.08.2017 and points sponsored by us

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Point No. 1: Issues related to GST: (i)            It is found that in GST, the taxpayers would have only ‘one’ IT interface and that is with GSTN irrespective of the tax or tax authority. By legal provisions and return designs, the country’s entire tax and accounting data will be deposited with GSTN.  Taxpayer service would be primarily IT dependent and the quality and pace of disposal will depend singly on GSTN.  The Central and State indirect taxes departments, who have the book authority to administer and collect the GST will continue, jointly and severally, as the interface of the governments of the country and the taxpayers of the country. However, neither they will have any direct access to the taxpayers’ data, nor they will have any access to enhance the quality or pace of GST IT Services. One month into GST, we find that each and every IT related complaints against GSTN, submitted by the taxpayers in CPGRAMS, are ...