The announcement for restructuring of the state GST department dated 19th January will be done by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Kerala Finance Minister KN Balagopal.
Kerala FM stated that there would be a restructuring of the GST council. At present three sections would be there, taxpayer, audit, and intelligence.
There shall be much more promotions for the deputy commissioner, more posts, and restructuring in the department, the state minister stated. As data analysts and intelligence officers, people could be hired.
In the former system, the minister mentioned that there were various GST glitches and problems and stated that the government is analyzing the same.
In the GST department on the same topic, we had communicated. But the former system of finding out the vehicles would not be there. It is essential to have an audit while the search operations were indeed essential.
The auditors shall get trained within the features of the same system, anticipating to have rectification in our system. The restructuring of the department will be officially announced on the 19th of this month by CM, the Finance minister clarified.
Balagopal stated, there are some issues within us however we do not stop any payments. We secure a PSC (personal service corporation) and hire more so as to fill the vacancies.
The minister articulated that in the current year were refused Rs 24000 cr that we had obtained in the former year. The GST compensation of nearly Rs 9000 cr would not be obtained now and there would be a revenue deficit grant reduction stands at nearly Rs 7000 cr. the same would be a problem and when these decisions would be chosen by the central government the same would be hard.
Hence we appeal before the Union government. The finance minister and the state cabinet decided to write a letter to the Prime minister. However, a huge crisis is not there within us, the state finance minister stated.
