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7 Possible Suggestions that Make GST More Compliant

Goods and Service Tax was considered to be an epitome of the ideal tax mechanism at the time of its implementation. The assumption is somewhere proved right as the GST system has reduced effective tax rates and boosted supply chain efficiencies of businesses. On the other hand, it is also prevalent that the system is not at all simple and has burdened the taxpayer even more with tax-filing complexities.

Now it is invariably needed to introduce a set of amendments contributing towards the certainty of the GST system.

Steps to Make GST More Compliant:

These steps may be the initiation with respect to long-awaited transformation in the Goods and Services Tax (GST), and the overhaul completed. There are some more steps that the government needs to initiate in making GST a good and simple tax as the PM Narendra Modi assured.

Reduction in Number of Tax Slabs Rates

To begin with let’s talk about drastic changes in tax rates that are bothering the taxpayers. There is an invariable need to put a halt on the changes in tax rates and decide the rate structure that is static for a few years. Adding on to that increasing the tax rates As per the recent update, The central government is planning to do changes in the slabs of Goods and Service Taxes (GSTs) soon. As per the rumors is not an ideal solution for grabbing more revenue especially in the era of an economic slowdown. In short, there is a need for a simplified tax structure of only three tax slabs. Either we need to merge 12% & 18% or 5% & 12% slabs into one.

Effortless Input Tax Credit Claims

An urgent restoration of the Input Tax Credit system is indeed an invariable requirement. GST on all the businesses should be seen as setoff in line with global practices. And if restrictions on credit is not possible then the denial of say 5% of total input taxes should be made an option for the taxpayers without there being an urgent need for detailed expense analysis.

Spreading the GST Net

There is still a huge crowd away from paying GST (Goods and Services Tax) keeping the fact as their primary concern, the GST council meeting Get to know about GST (Goods and Services Tax) council 1st to 37th meeting updates and decisions taken by members. We have covered 1st meeting to last meeting decisions should find out ways to bring in real estate, petroleum and electricity sectors under its umbrella. The GST net could be expanded gradually starting from industrial fuels like Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) and natural gas.

Renovating ITC System

Restriction on cash flow in the market has adversely affected businesses. The ITC that is acquired at the state level by several businesses is subject to tax payment in some other state. At central GST, a national pool has to be considered in addition to allowing an offset against income tax. An excess amount in input tax can be dispersed as a refund to the taxpayers.

Practical Targets for GST Collection

As per the government’s data, monthly GST collection is a little more than Rs. 1 lakh crore in the current financial year and therefore the revenue target is missed by large numbers. Revenue collection is important but it cannot define the spontaneity of the GST system which totally depends on the smooth function of businesses and widened tax base.

Hope is revived with the commencement of new e-invoicing under GST Get to know about the new E-invoice generation system on government GST portal with applicability. The system mandates to generate e-invoice for every sale by a registered business practice which will allow real-time tracking of ITC claimed by a business based on invoices of B2B transactions.

Including Some Exempted Goods In GST Regime:

Some goods & services like electricity, real estate, and petroleum are out of GST structure. As they are out of GST bracket, the input tax credit benefits cannot be utilized by the segments involved in the process and so it is a loss for them. In addition, these sectors are out of the indirect tax system at the mercy of state government. Some sectors such as oil and gas are demanding to be included in the GST. Even experts suggest that the right way to implement GST is to put all the sectors under the bracket of GST, but it would take some time to implement the required tweaks to the system.

Let E-waybill Go Away

The industry demands to let the GST e-way bill go Get to know about GST E Way bill and its generating process through online and SMS in a simple manner. Also, we have attached original screenshots of official E way bill portal for better understanding, which is a digitally generated instrument to move the goods worth Rs. 50,000 or more. As GST Council has postponed the implementation of e-way until April 2018, the experts say the GST is a consumption tax so it doesn’t require to add the movement of goods in the bracket of GST.

Although, the council is silent on the suggestion and running a pilot regarding the e-way bill in Kolkata and expected to spread it in other states. The industry is well acknowledged with the fact that when the e-way bill will be uploaded to the GST network, it would create another technological hurdle after implementation.

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