Most Mumbai Companies Will Be On GST Portal Soon, Says Taxman

The Mumbai zone of Service Tax Department on Saturday said that it expects another 1.15 lakh active assessees of the total 2.8 lakh companies to migrate to the Goods and Services Tax portal by Monday.

So far, around 65,000 active assessees have already migrated to the portal since its launch in January this year, Service Tax Chief Commissioner and head of the Mumbai zone, Piyusha Patnaik, told PTI. Active companies are the ones which file service-tax returns on a regular basis.

“We do hope that the remaining assessees will also migrate to the portal by April 10,” Patnaik said.

All the seven commissionerates of the Service Tax Department in Mumbai are separately holding five-day GST migration camps, which kicked off on April 6. “All the taxpayers are invited to attend the camp for a hassle-free migration,” Patnaik said.

“The department officers are ready to attend to the taxpayers and help them migrate to the GST portal,” she said.

Service Tax Commissionerate-VII, which comprises areas like Thane-Mulund, Ghatkopar, Kurla, Chembur, Andheri (East) Powai, Vashi and Raigad, has completed successful migration of 9,000 firms to GST portal so far.

“We hope that the remaining 50,000 companies will be doing so by April 10 and it is why we are holding the GST migration camps at two places in the commissionerate,” C Dhanasekaran, Commissioner of Service Tax-VII, said.

The revenue of the Commissionerate-VII for 2016-17 was Rs 15,470 crore, 24 percent more than the previous year, he said.