GST- a way forward for logistic industry
By: – sandeep saini
Goods and Services Tax – GST
Dated:- 22-9-2016
Dear professional colleague,
GST- a way forward for logistic industry
India's globally infamous unending queue, uneasy checkmates at our border check posts, filing of waybills/entry permits, compliances under entry tax laws and local levies, are one of the prime reasons why transport costs hovered high for decades. But once the GST implemented , these challenges will become a thing of past, as GST will subsume most of Central taxes and State levies, eliminating the time wasting checkpoints and make diverse verticals across India more efficient through faster deliveries of goods and services. In other words, India a nation of multiple market today will transform into one common market backed by borderless, barrier-less systems permitting free movement of goods and services and therefore GST will facilitate “Make in India by making one India”.
As per the estimate
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travel time and it is estimated that eliminating check point delays could keep trucks moving almost 6 hours more per day, which will results in additional movement of 164 kms per day.
Due to above bottlenecks, logistics costs are higher than the wage bill or the cost of power and 3-4 times the international benchmark. The removal of bottlenecks becomes more important for India, as the share of roads in freight traffic is about 72 per cent, which is much higher in comparision to other countries and rising over time because of under investment in railways, therefore inter-state trade costs to be reduced significantly, due to excessive reliance on roads for movement of goods.
According to world bank estimate about 20-30 per cent of inter-state trade cost is due to taxes. So, after imlementation of GST, these costs are expected to come down, which will boost inter-state trade and hence productivity growth within India.
The Impact of GST on Logistic Industry
* The GST will enables the
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will also ready to extend loan. So, experts feel the contractual business could increase upto 50 per cent, after implementation of GST.
* The companies and logistic firms will be in a position to use fewer but bigger trucks to transport their consignments, further reducing pollution and curbing traffic congestion.And many companies would prefer to outsource logistic operations, as lower costs make this viable.
Steps that logistic service providers need to undertake
* Develop a stong team to manage sophisticated technology enabled fufilment centre.
* Indentify focus Industries that need to revisit their supply chain and their immediate needs post GST implementation.
* Enhance technology capabilities and processes to adhere to new input tax credit system.
* Reconfigure current fleet size and type, to align to emerging needs.
Issues need to be addressed under GST
* Entry tax is subsumed under GST via deleting the Entry 52 from State list given in Article 246 of constitution
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oblems of logistic industry viz. Infrastructure of railways, road, ports etc., so that a virtual campaign named “Move in India” would be implemented besides “Make in India”.
Reply By Ganeshan Kalyani as =
nice article.
i would like to reproduce the extract of Model GST law for discussion,
60. Power of inspection, search and seizure
(1) Where the CGST/SGST officer, not below the rank of Joint Commissioner, has reasons to believe that –
(a) a taxable person has suppressed any transaction relating to supply of goods and/or services or the stock of goods in hand, or has claimed input tax credit in excess of his entitlement under the Act or has indulged in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder to evade tax under this Act; or
(b) any person engaged in the business of transporting goods or an owner or operator of a warehouse or a godown or any other place is keeping goods which have escaped payment of tax or has kept his accounts or goods in such
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