Large-scale outsourcing of data entry functions in the Income Tax Department poses a risk of refund frauds and leakage of confidential data. It has been noticed that quite often the outsourced data entry operators have access to the RSA Tokens issued to the officers and are also aware of the passwords.
For the convenience of the field formations, the procedure for processing IGST refund claims for exports made from Non-EDI sites, is as under: (i) Firstly, the export data is to be captured using offline utilities and transmitted by the field formations to DG (Systems) by email.
India being a G20 Country is committed to implement the minimum standards laid down in the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project. One of the minimum standards that every participating jurisdiction has to achieve is to ensure a Transparency Framework for spontaneous exchange of rulings under BEPS Action 5.
Form 10G, 56 and 56D e-filed on or after 1st August, 2018 have been made available on e-filing portal and are available for view and download to the concerned Commissioner of Income Tax (Exemption). All e-filed form 10G, 56 and 56D prior to 1st August, 2018 have been e-mailed/ placed in respective folders in ITD System. ITBA […]
Kerala State has decided to develop the back end modules for the GST at their end. The development of the state GST backend software was entrusted with National Informatics Centre, Govt of India with the support of development team.
Ministry of Consumer Affairs has brought to the notice of the Board that some hotels/restaurants are still pre-emptively deciding upon the service charge without allowing the customers to voluntary decide whether they actually want to pay the service charge or not.
CBIC has put up a GST & Customs Pavilion in IITF, which has six Helpdesks relating to GST, GSTN and Customs to guide and assist taxpayers. General information has been displayed through interesting info-graphics in the Pavilion.
All nodal officers of CBIC reached out to MSME sector across 8o MSME Cluster locations in India to provide a conducive environment for their growth. I am confident that all our Zonal Chief Commissioners shall take this opportunity to scale up the facilitation measures for the benefit of the MSME sector.
It has been now decided that all grievances raised by MSMEs have to be recorded and processed. In order to achieve the same, a Feedback and Action Room (FAR) is required to be set-up. It has also been decided that DGGST would be the nodal agency to run the said FAR.
Efforts should also be made to dispose of non-time-barring assessments in significant numbers after the time-barring assessments have been completed so that cash collection from the current demand can be made during the current financial year itself.
