On the occasion of rollout of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) on July 1, a meeting was held on Saturday in the office of the Commissioner of Central Tax, Rourkela Central GST Commissionerate here.
The officials of both the Central and State GST offices at Rourkela along with members of the Rourkela Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) participated.
After the welcome address by Assistant Chief Accounts Officer of Central GST, Rourkela, Sujogya Kumar Sahoo, the questions raised by the members of the RCCI raised some confusions relating to provisions of GST were clarified by the GST officials.
Joint Commissioner of Central Tax Debjyoti Chakravarty and Joint Commissioner of State GST Rourkela Pramod Kumar Satpathy in their address solved the confusions about the GST and told that a single tax under GST regime instead of multiple taxes is going to reduce cascading effect of the taxation. In the long run, it will reduce inflation and the trade and industry will be greatly benefited as there will be virtually no interface between the tax payers and the tax administrators.
The GST network will do all the job of filing returns, uploading invoices etc of the tax payers. Joint Commissioner of Appeals Janmejaya Jena, State Tax Officer Pandmalochan Rout, Nitijita Mishra, Utkal Kumar Sethi alongwith Central GST officers SS Bisht, Assistant Commissioner C Jawaharbabu and Chief Accounts Officer SK Rana were present. RCCI general secretary Rajesh Garg and vice president Rajesh Agarwal participated.