For the remaining tax payers, who have not migrated to the new indirect tax regime, GST, the government will re-open the window for 15 days from June 1, said the Revenue secretary Dr. Hasmukh Adhia.
As the government is all set to roll out the Goods and Services Tax from July 1, 60.5 lakh entities have enrolled themselves with the GSTN system. However, the process to enroll taxpayers on the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) portal was suspended on April 30.
“As on April 30 2017, when Phase-1 of enrolment was closed, 60.5 lakh taxpayers out of 84 lakh had enrolled. The enrolment window will be re-opened for 15 days from 1st June, 2017 to give another opportunity to taxpayers to enrol,” an official statement said.
At a review meeting of IT Preparedness for GST System at GSTN office yesterday, Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia expressed satisfaction with the preparation for the roll-out of GST. He reviewed the progress on enrolment of existing taxpayers. He also briefed about the software system being developed for GST, training of tax officials and outreach program being undertaken by Tax Departments across the nation.
The training is being conducted on Registration, Returns and Payment Modules developed by GSTN, it said, adding GSTN is also conducting a pilot on GST System Software from May 2 to May, 16 where 3,200 taxpayers drawn from each State/UT and Centre will be participating.
The pilot covers all the three modules and is being run to give the taxpayers first hand opportunity to work on the live system as the creation of return has become an interactive process, it said.
This will also give an opportunity to test all the modules by a large set of users in real life environment so that all possible scenarios get tested, it said.
This pilot will also give an opportunity to test all the modules by a large set of users in real life environment so that all possible scenarios get tested. All stakeholders involved in the GST System from taxpayer to bank to RBI to accounting authorities are participating in this exercise which is like a rehearsal for the real rollout. The feedback from the pilot will be used to further improve the GST Software. The modules covered under the pilot are:
