It has been around 6 months since GST was implemented in the country, some of the taxpayers have claimed that their data is merging with the others at the GSTN Portal. In respect of this, the Information Technology department is blaming that the taxpayers are registering with multiple entities at a time.
According to a circular notification of CBEC in Mumbai division, some of the cases come under its notice wherein, “taxpayers are complaining that when they are logging into their account using their login credentials, they are diverted to some other’s account on GST portal and the data of another taxpayer is displayed in that account”.
Tax officials said that it happens whenever the registration or enrolment of traders has been done by the same taxpayers at one time or in one browser the several windows have been opened by the tax practitioners for different taxpayers.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has informed to all taxpayers that they should not open more than one registration or enrolment window at a time. By adding that, “After completing one case, clear the cache memory of the computer system before initiating second registration/ enrolment process”.
The new indirect tax reform was implemented from 1st July 2017 throughout the country, which eliminates several complex levies such as service tax, VAT and transitioned India into a common unified market.
Till now, nearly 69 lakh VAT and Service taxpayers have been transformed to Goods and Services Tax (GST) System and about five lakh registrations have occurred under GST.
The finance ministry informed to business entities that they register himself/ herself under the new indirect tax reform by 30th July 2017. If the business entities hold valid PAN Card, email ID and a mobile number then they can fill an online application form at GSTN portal and register themselves under GST.
According to a circular notification, in case of registration of SEZ units and businesses those have several verticals on similar PAN, in this case, the taxpayers can use different mobile numbers and E-mail ID for single business vertical.
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