As the Country is all set to rollout Goods and Services Tax from 1st July, 2017, the Institute of Chartered accountants in India (ICAI), the apex body of Chartered Accountants, has decided to set up help desks to small businessmen and traders.
The ICAI GST Sahayata Desks will facilitate small businessmen, traders, shopkeepers and public at large, for free of cost.
The main objectives of GST Sahayata Desks are that Creating basic awareness on GST (An Overview of GST), Informing about benefits of GST in Tax and business environment, Guiding in Migration, Helping in filing GST Returns, Providing answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), Resolving queries of a small Businessmen and traders, To spread the message that ICAI and members are assisting in implementation of GST
The Institute (ICAI) said these desks would be made operational at around 200 locations in different part of the country. Among others, these desks would create basic awareness on GST, inform individuals about the benefits and help them in migration to the new system.
“The GST Sahayata Desks would be operational w.e.f May 28, 2017 till September 30, 2017 at pan India level,” it said in a release today.
The GST would subsume all the prevailing indirect tax laws in India except Customs Act.
