Workshop organized to discuss Goods and Service Tax

Government of India has started the process of engaging stakeholders and public at large to spread awareness and to seek comments on the Business Processes to be adopted during Goods and Service Tax (GST) Regime. To begin with, Government of India has placed the business process reports of Registration, Return and Payments on the website of the Department of Revenue to invite comments. In this context, a full day workshop on GST was organized on October 26 at Hotel Hyatt Regency, New Delhi.

All Delhi Computers Dealers Association was invited; Shyam Modi, Chairman, Mahinder Aggarwal, president and Swarn Singh, Secretary, ADCTA participated in this workshop to discuss draft on GST with Pan India Associations and Government of India has started with North region.

During the workshop, Swarn Singh, secretary, ADCTA has raised the issue of ongoing unethical business practice of few E-tailers (online sales) and informed the desk about lack of regulations over online sales. Also, ADCTA informed the desk about business operandi of online market place - selling of fake products, evasion of tax, consumption and generation of black money thru their business model etc.

Also, ADCTA specifically enquired the provisions coming under GST for online sales (e-tailers). But surprisingly  Govt. officials informed the house that Govt. has not discussed policies for online sales  till now, but panel has assured and inform the house that traders must send their concern and suggestions in writing for online market place and Government of India will make guideline for healthier and equal playing fields for all the market place.

“As this is a first ever initiative of Govt. to discuss draft on GST with Pan India Associations and they have started with North India. At present, presented draft has many flaws, but we hope that if Government consider trader's concern and amend the draft accordingly that will be beneficial to both Govt. and Traders. We welcome their initiative and hope that  Narinder Modi led BJP Government will not bring this bill in hurry. States participated were Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir and more” said, Mahindra Agarwal, president, ADCTA.