o spread awareness regarding the Goods and Services Tax (GST), New Market Vyapari Mahasangh and Madhya Pradesh Commercial Tax Department would jointly organise a workshop and awareness camp on Thursday at Samta Chowk, New Market. Around 200 shopkeepers of new market would take part in the camp.
Assistant commissioner (Commercial tax) Brihaspati Singh had coined the idea of this awareness camp.
While talking to The Pioneer here on Tuesday, Vyapari Mahasangh’s Spokesperson Pradeep Gupta told that shopkeepers have a lot of misunderstandings regarding the GST, therefore Vyapari Mahasangh had decided to conduct a awareness camp and workshop on GST. All the points related to GST would be explained to the shopkeepers so that they could understand the GST system. GST is important as well as beneficial for the market and business hence shopkeepers should be made aware about the profits of GST.
Gupta said that the workshop and awareness camp would be conducted on Thursday. Around 200 shopkeepers along with the commercial tax officials would take part in the programme. Assistant commissioner (Commercial tax) Officer Brihaspati Singh had discussed the idea of organizing an awareness camp over GST with the office bearers of the Vyapari Mahasangh. Vyapari Mahasangh and the other shopkeepers of the market had showed interest regarding a workshop on GST.
Notably, Goods and Services Tax (GST) had been approved by The President of India post its passage in the Parliament (Rajya Sabha on August 03, 2016 and lok Sabha on August 8, 2016) and ratification by more than 50 percent of state legislatures. The Government of India is committed to replace all the indirect taxes levied on goods and services by the Centre and States and implement GST by April 2017.