Dimapur, Dec. 19 (EMN): Additional Commissioner of Taxes, Mhathung Murry informed that only 23 departments of the state government have registered with GST. Therefore, he requested all the remaining departments to get GST registration at the earliest.
Murry informed this during a review meeting of the state level monitoring cell for implementation of GST and PIMS on Tuesday at the Chief Secretary’s conference hall, held under chairmanship of Chief Secretary and Chairman of GST Pankaj Kumar.
In a power point presentation, Murry mentioned that a total of 5605 have been issued GST Provisional IDs and 3940 has been activated till Dec. 17, where a total of 3042 PID has been migrated. He said under the new registration within the same period, the migrated tax payers and new registration were 2992 and 3379 respectively. The total number of tax payers under central excise and service tax above 1.5 cr. was 31 tax payers, whereas below 1.5 crores was 350 and the total number of tax payers under VAT above 1.5 crores was 188 and below 1.5 crores was 2662. The division of tax payers between centre and state above 1.5 crores was 110 & 109 and below 1.5 crores was 302 and 2710 respectively.
Murry also informed that the department is all set to join the all-India roll out from Feb. 1 next year. Adding that the department is one among the first five states to pilot the implementation of ‘E-waybill”, he said refresher course on GST was held on Dec. 18 and 19th. He also mentioned some of the future plans to augment revenue by way of educating all the stakeholders of the benefits of timely GST compliance besides intensified TDS registration drive.
He also said ‘E-waybill’ would not be possible unless all the stakeholders participate with a concerted effort. “It is very difficult to implement GST, revenue may go up but it will always be below our expectation unless all the stakeholders involve”, he added. Emphasising on the importance of awareness, he said the role of IPR and AIR a very important to disseminate the scope and advantages of GST in the state.
During the meeting, different departments such as PHED, Forest, Health, Works & Housing, Agriculture and Police presented their respective PIMS reports.
