GST council has made a virtual cadre that comprises 78 department staff that has been circulated across the state for streamlining e-governance executions.
Finance Minister K. N. Balagopal, who formally inaugurated the cadre has addressed that the making of the procedure in the department plans to upgrade itself. The virtual cadre would indeed assist the council to monitor the tax payment and avoiding errors.
Minister said that Kerala is on the platform to lose the tax revenues when the union refuses to prolong the GST compensation duration to another next 5 years as asked by different states. He indeed brings strict action towards the tax theft.
The department has created the virtual cadre by recruiting tech-savvy staff members and is a portion of the cadre in the sideways through their regular executions.
The cadre has 3 essential objectives the making of a technically skilled team that would manage the rest of the council staff in the IT concerns.
”The cadre will help the department in developing an evidence-based and transparent tax compliance regime,” Additional Chief Secretary (Finance) Rajesh Kumar Singh commented.
Through assistance from the Kerala State IT Mission, the cadre would be given training by the Digital University Kerala (DUK).
In the online function, the finance minister indeed inaugurated the new regional IT training centre of the council in the State GST Complex in Kozhikode. The 2nd centre after the one in Thiruvananthapuram, the centre provides the requirement for the training to the employees of the department in northern Kerala.