A seminar on the issues of direct and indirect taxes was organised at Motel Shiraj. The seminar was organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Bhopal Branch in association with Tax law Bar Association Bhopal and All India Federation of Tax Practitioners.
The programme was inaugurated by lighting the lamp by the guests. Hemant A Bhat, Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central GST, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh was chief Guest of the programme. CA Anup Shrivastava, Chairman of the Bhopal Branch discussed about the prevailing technical issues in ITAT and GST implementation. Then CA S Krishnan Chairman of Tax law bar association addressed the gathering and made aware about the practical problems in GST forms and urged the guests to communicate the same to the higher authorities.
Addressing the seminar, Hemant A Bhat said that GST counsel and government understands the problem of common man and small traders and that is the reason why lot of circulars and amendments were made frequently. As GST is in teething stage hence it takes time to get established. He further added that Government decided to not to conduct any raid or any anti evasion activity till December 31, 2017 to let the law settle down. But now it started from January 1 2018.
later, the seminar was followed with different technical sessions on GST and technical problems and their solutions.
CA Zuber Ullah Khan, secretary of the branch and CA Navneet Garg conducted the programme, CA Abhishek Gupta , CA Saurabh Shrivastava, CA Mayank Agrawal, CA Anshul Agrawal,, CA Hemant Jain (all Managing Committee members) of the Bhopal branch Mridul Arya, Mukul Sharma ( Office Bearers) of Tax law bar association are also present in the seminar. About 200 members of ICAI,Advocates and Tax Practioners participated in the programme. This seminar proved to very fruitful for the all practicing professionals.