From a Correspondent
DHUBRI, Sept 21: A workshop on Goods and Services Tax (GST) was organized for media persons by Dhubri Sales Tax Office in collaboration with Dhubri Information and Public Relation Office at Circuit House Conference Hall on Wednesday. Speaking in the workshop, Dhubri unit of Assistant Commissioner of Taxes, Subrata Chakraborty spoke at a length on various aspects of GST and termed it to be very simple.
He said that taxation system under GST was like an’ examition hall room without any invigilators’ as sales tax officials now had to monitor various stages from registration to filing of return on their laptops and issue orders accordingly if any anomalies were detected. However, mobile and physical checks were still there but it would come at later stages if major tax evasion was detected by manufacturers and traders , he added.
However, despite best effort being made by the GST units across the country and Dhubri as well, there seemed to be some confusion in the mind of consumers, traders and media persons over GST and the aim of this workshop was to clear the doubts and confusion from their minds, Chakraborty added.
He opined that GST was a simple concept of taxes framed with an aim to make ‘One tion- One Tax’ . It is nothing but 17 sales taxes stitched together to make one tax, wherein eight categories of Central Government Sales Taxes (CST) and nine categories of Assam Government Sales Taxes(AGST) have been clubbed together to give an uniform structure as GST, he added
He informed that registration under GST had already increased since July this year, and from the stage registration to submission of return every month, the process was transparent and tax evasion by traders was now next to impossible and this would increase volume of tax collection which would benefit the state and tiol fincial health. A team in the Sales Tax office was working to guide and advice the traders where they could go to seek suggestion on how to follow the GST to file the return, he further informed.