The State Goods and Services Tax (SGST) Department recently issued notices to 7,000 to 8,000 taxpayers in the city for the year 2017-18, seeking 17 types of details. The taxpayer will have to provide all these details in person.
When GST was introduced, the government announced that all procedures and taxpayers records will be kept online. But since the details did not appear in the database of State GST and Central GST officials, 17 types of details including full year books, purchase and sale bills, bank statements, GSTR-1 and 3B returns, audit reports, annual returns, income tax returns, 26 AS are asked from taxpayers.
Traders have to give all these details to the officials in person and also have to appear before the SGST department. The State GST Department has put traders in trouble by asking for data in the old fashioned way. Such measures by the state GST have provoked outrage among traders and taxpayers.
