The Kerala GST Department released Operational instructions concerning the Payment of tax and except amounts covering arrear demands released in Acts excluding GST via the e-Treasury Portal. The council issued this through the notification Trade Notice No. 18/2023 dated October 30, 2023.
Various taxes and fees regulated by the Department, such as the Kerala Value Added Tax Act of 2003, Kerala General Sales Tax Act of 1963, Kerala Money Lenders Act of 1958, The Kerala Tax on Luxuries Act of 1976, The Kerala Agricultural Income Tax Act of 1991, and other additional charges including Surcharges and Kerala Flood Cess introduced via separate Finance Acts, are primarily paid using the Kerala Value Added Tax Information Management System (KVATIS) software application.
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Arrear demands on the grounds of dealers’ self-proclamations, assessments by officers, or fees and deposits regarding appeals were done by filing manual challans in treasuries by dealers and department officers depositing cash, cheques, or demand drafts accumulated from the dealers.
However, with the enactment of the Integrated Finance Management System (IFMS), the Treasury Department no longer accepts over-the-counter payments using manual challans for arrear demands stated above, whether from the general public or the department.
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Instead, the e-Treasury Portal has been enabled with an online facility to allow the payment of departmental receipts through the creation of an online challan pay-in-slip. The e-Treasury portal now includes the necessary accounts of these payments to complete the process.
To ease the process of the payment for dealers and officials, the following guidelines have been stipulated specifically for remitting demands excluding CGST, SGST, IGST, and Compensation Cess.
