A letter written by UP Commercial Tax Commissioner revealed that nearly 1/4th of the traders in Uttar Pradesh have not migrated to the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) laws yet. It shows that till date, 11% out of the total traders who have migrated to the new tax regime have filed their GSTR-3B for the month of July.
Under the present law, it was mandatory to the tax payers under the old VAT/Excise/Service tax regime to migrate into new Goods and Services Tax regime within 30 days from the rollout through the GSTN portal.
However, as per recent communication dated 28th Sep, 2017 issued by the Commissioner of Commercial Tax, U.P., till now, only 654845 (75.32%) dealers have completely migrated. Currently, out of dealers already registered with the Department, 782226 (89.28%) have enabled activation by filling Part-A at GSTN Portal through their Provisional I.D. and password, but they have not completely migrated by filling the information required in the fields of the other part.
The zone/region-wise list of dealers left from migration has been sent to the Login of all Additional/Joint Commissioners with direction to contact the concerned dealers personally and get their migration completed at top most priority by resolving their problems, the letter said.
Also, as per the said letter, the both, migrated and the newly registered dealers were required to GSTR-3B for the month of July and August. However as per analysis of GSTN data, only 86038 traders have filed return for the July month but have not filed the return for the month of August. This information has also been sent to the Login of all Additional/Joint Commissioners with direction to provide them IT/computer related help as required particularly to small and medium sized traders.
The letter directs that attempt be made to get the returns filed by the traders on top priority basis by resolving the problems faced by the traders. Also it has been directed that a zone level compilation be made of problems faced by the traders in return filing procedures, doubts regarding GST rates, legal doubts, IT related and HSN Code related all problems. The said compilation is to be sent by 4th October, 2017.
Read the full text of the Letter below.
