Goods and Services Tax – GST – By: – Mohammed Lakkadsha – Dated:- 6-9-2017 Last Replied Date:- 28-9-2017 – Open Letter to the Honourable Prime Minster of India My Experience with GSTN: I am a small-time professional chartered accountant in field of Taxation practicing since 21 years. Have seen massive transformation of manual to fully automated system of filing the returns be it be Income Tax(CPC), Be it be TDS(TRACES), Be it be VAT(MAHAVAT), be it be Service Tax(ACES), be it ROC Filing (MCA) etc. All these systems took off gradually and day by day matured and were made user friendly day by day. E.g. Initially TDS System Traces was rigid about payment of the taxes and does not allow adjustment intra Codes, between the years etc. but as the administrators realised that When the tax paid belongs to the deductor why he shouldn t be allowed to adjust as per his wishes, and subsequently the system was made more user friendly and rigidity was done away. When the GST was implemented with big
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aw. Just to quote a few Shortcomings: Being a new user there is every chance of error and omission, but the system is made so rigid with no room for revision or modification. Why not such facility provided to the users, when automated system can keep the trail of every addition and modification done by the user. The law allows and have provision to opt-out of Composition scheme by filing form CMP-04 ,if the conditions for opting composition u/s 10 of CGST Act does not fulfilled or breached. The GSTN does have such option till date. Needless to point out that option to opt for composition was provided very lately, by that time taxpayer had made lot of blunders by issuing Tax invoices. Also GSTN network has no facility of verifying dealer composition status by third party which can lead to huge evasion of taxes. The Enrolment application (migration / New registration) has provided option (compulsion for few Category) to submit the application online with Valid DSC but most of user system
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use to sleeps whole night, even if programmed to wake up to @ 6.00 Am, sometime sleeps up to 10.00 Am., Sometimes sleeps for days together. During the Day, the system is very busy to respond the users. As a results lakhs of skilled man hours were lost. The very basic concept of GST was seamless flow of credit and with that in mind Transition credit was to be allowed to the taxpayers by way of online return Trans1, Trans2 & Trans3. The return was to be submitted within 60 days , which was extended to 90 days after request made by various forum. But what happened facility to upload Trans1 was provided after 50 days that too when the administration was reminded by the Taxpayer that we need to adjust our credit of opening stock carried forward in GST regime. Shame on administration that Trans1 return was made online without any bulk filing utility knowing that thousands of entries has to be punched by the users. With a very little knowledge a small-time professional like me can design
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vided and exports were left on mercy of corrupt official for availing the facility without payment of the duty. In some case even after one month of time lag the Letter of undertaking was not accepted by the official. Why not systems were designed well in advance before the GST implementation to provide facility to exports to apply online for getting approvals without payment of duty. Technical Glitches like System errors; system failures; System not responding; down for maintenance; does not have enough bandwidth to support the users were daily and routine slogans on site. No effective system is in place for timely redressal of problems faced by the users. The helpdesk is inexperienced and have no solutions for most of the issued raised by the users. The Twitter handle and email respond rarely and that too incorrectly. The above shortcomings are only illustrative and many more can be list down, but sheer waste precious time, as we know that deaf Government is busy in praising themselv
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d Lakkadsha 05th September ,2017 mohdLak@gmail.com – Reply By NARENDRA SEKSARIA – The Reply = 1-THKS TO START /DARE BY THIS OPEN LETTER TO PM AGAINST WHOM PUBLIC FEAR TO SPEAK UP BUT THERE IS MOMENTUM NOW AFTER HE BEING EXPOSED ON DEMONETISATION A JOB OF EXPERT-RBI2-GST WAS OVERDUE AGOOD SYSTEM -SAVING TRUCK HOURS- HARASSMENT AT OCTROI-EXCISE-SALES TAX ETC-AS USUAL IMPLEMENTATION IS POOR-WITHOUT RESPECTING GROUND REALITIES-UNPLANNED3-PORTAL SHOULD HAVE SIMPLE 1-2PAGE RETURNS FOR SAY TRADERS-SMALL MFR BELOW 5CR4-WHY LATE FEES COLLECTED RS600-BY EXTORTION-NOW WAIVED WHAT A FUN/MOCKERY – Reply By Vinay Kunte – The Reply = Nice way to put forward the discrepancies and short coming in GSTN and that to as an open letter to PM is a very bold step but hope it reached the destination and a corrective action is taken .Hope the Administrators and the Politicians relaise the difficulties faced and the Industrial Associations and other big business houses such as Reliance, Tata, Birla, or some bigg
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