GST complete transformation programme

GST COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME AND  RE-ORGANISATION OF CBEC – SOME MINUTE DETAILS OF HOW IT HAPPENED 

• The Government has stepped up its outreach programme through various events, workshops, media, television to reach masses.
• Field formations of CBEC, at all levels have been activated to carry out interaction with the trade and industry to help them with the migration to GST and to clear their doubts.
• The Field units of CBEC have run campaigns using mobile vans to reach the assessees at their door-step to help them with the GST migration and transitional issues.
• A total of 4700 workshops have been conducted across India.
• An extensive multi-media campaign through print and electronic media, outdoor hoardings, etc. has been carried out for informing, educating and assisting taxpayers and other stake-holders to enable a smooth transition to GST.

 RE-ORGANISATION OF CBEC

• Implementation of GST has necessitated reorganisation of the Central Board of Excise & Customs formations for administration of GST.
• The reorganisation involved bringing about structural changes and redeployment of human resources. Redeployment has been done to ensure outreach to the remotest corner.
• Directorates which have significant role under the GST have been adequately expanded and strengthened.
• The field formations have been restructured as 21 CGST & CX Zones, 107 CGST & CX Commissionerates, 12 Sub-Commissionerates, 768 CGST & CX Divisions, 3969 CGST & CX Ranges, 48 Audit Commissionerates and 49 Appeal Commissionerates.

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TRAINING

• For a smooth roll out of GST, it was imperative to carry out adequate capacity-building exercise and awareness. National Academy of Customs Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) have conducted extensive training programs.
• In the first phase nearly 52,000 officers were trained during September, 2016 to January, 2017 through a multi-layered training programme across India.
• A Refresher Training was also conducted on updated Law, Rules and Procedures and a total of 17,213 officials were trained till 23rd June, 2017.
• Under the Accredited GST Training Programme, 20 institutes have been certified as ‘Approved Training Partners’ to impart ‘quality training at reasonable cost’ to members of trade/industry and other stakeholders. 2,565 participants have been trained so far (ongoing).
• NACIN have also trained 2,611 officers from 92 Ministries/PSUs trained so far.
• Besides that, training resources such as 500 FAQs on GST have been released in English, Hindi and 10 regional languages.
• A number of Flyers on different topics of GST explaining the GST concepts, for dissemination to trade & industry, PPTs and Learning Videos for GST training and other training materials for the officials have also been released.

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Role of GST Network (GSTN) – IT backbone of GST

• GSTN has been created as a section 25 private limited company with Strategic Control with the Government, to function as a common Pass-through portal for taxpayers.
• On this common portal, taxpayers will submit their registration applications, file returns, make tax payments, claim refunds etc.
• The GSTN has been provided with a robust IT platform and it will provide interface to 80 lakh taxpayers and thousands of tax officials.
• All filings under GST will be done electronically.  While GSTN remains a front-end, at the back end, the IT systems of CBEC and different states interface with the GSTN IT network to provide a seamless end to end processing of tax returns for the taxpayers.
• 64,000 officials have been trained on the GST portal from February till June 2017. The GSTN IT systems have undergone load tests, performance tests, vulnerability tests, security and all other mandatory tests.
• Enrolment of existing taxpayers of the State tax administrations and the Central Board of Excise and Customs to the GST system commenced on 8^thNovember, 2016.
• More than 66 lakh taxpayers have activated their account at the GST portal.
• GST Application on Payment has been operationalized. 25 banks have been integrated with the GST Common portal and will be providing e-payment and Over the counter payment facilities as well as payment through NeFT/RTGS and credit/debit card.

SERVICE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

• A twitter seva started by the Government as an initiative to answer queries of the Tax Payers on a real time basis. The twitter handle ask GST_GOI attracts thousands of taxpayer queries every day.
• List of FAQs based on frequent questions asked on Twitter has been already got published.

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