Seminar on GST held in Bhopal

A seminar on Batch of Goods and Service Tax (GST) was organised here on Tuesday.

The workshop was jointly organised by Bhopal Branch of the Institute of chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and Tax committee of ICAI, New Delhi. Chief Commissioner Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax Hemant Bhat was present as the chief guest on the occasion.

Commissioner Appeals of Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax RS Maheshwari was also present in the programme.

During the programme CA Anup Shrivastava, Chairman of Bhopal Branch briefed the CA participants about Certificate Course programme and saidthe Bhopal branch has also started a Virtual course on GST through live webcasts and 50 CA members are attending the classes.

later, Hemant Bhat advised Chartered Accountants to encourage Traders and businessman to migrate to GST regime and to help the businessman in resolving the problems arising during the course of migration.  He spoke in detail about GST compliances and update the members about the preparations of GST and expresses his views on the start of GST from July 1.

While he interacted with the participants he emphasized on the importance of the Certificate Course on Goods and Service Tax. He said that after successful completion of the course the members will help and advice the traders, business man and other stakeholders in the implementation and migration from existing law to GST regime.

In the next session of the course Commissioner Appeals Customs, Central excise and Service Tax RS Maheshwari made deliberations on Constitutional provisions of GST. He further discussed on the provisions of Dual tax in case of Inter State transactions, Concept of Credit of Tax, Reverse charge mechanism.

Concluding the session he answered the queries raised by the participants.