The confederation of all India traders urged the Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to refuse the essential GST enrollment towards selling the products via e-commerce platforms.
In a statement, it is mentioned that the GST steers on the other side of the digital India vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asks the Finance Minister to make things effective within the GST council.
“Joint statement by the traders’ body’s national President B.C. Bhartia and Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal Under the GST Act, a seller who wishes to sell products in e-commerce are invariably required to obtain a GST number. Any seller who does not have a GST number is not allowed to sell products on any e-commerce portal. This provision of the Act is barring lakhs of traders across the country from using e-commerce to sell their products,”
“…several ministries and state governments are eager to bring more and more sellers on e-commerce platforms but the provision of not allowing sellers without having a GST number has become a major deterrent and roadblock to embrace digital commerce by lakhs of traders of the Country.”
Union is discussing the strengthening of the small retailers in the country however since these small retailers pose a yearly turnover of less than Rs 40 lakh which is the limit for the GST enrollments, the GST must get exempted from GST enrollments towards the digital commerce also.
Rather than GST enrollment the Aadhar number, bank details, or additional identical things might be needed as important qualifications to onboard on the e-commerce portals also they added that a bigger number of artisans, craftsmen, cottage and household industries see various challenges.
Sellers who used to sell the products on the e-commerce needs to enroll for the GST registration along with that he needs to pay the respective cost and also needed to follow some other compliance and towards that CAIT has urged the Finance Ministery to waive off the same compliance for the seller so that it becomes easier for the sellers to sell their products on the e-Commerce platform.
