The Punjab Government has provided a big time relief to the trading community in the new year 2016 by making C-forms available online.
In this regard, the state Excise and Taxation Department has completed all necessary preparations and traders would not have to make rounds of government offices to get the C-forms.
The drive to make the C-forms available online would commence from SAS Nagar (Mohali) from January 15 and traders could download the same from the same date, said the spokesperson.
Only recently, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, who also holds Excise and Taxation portfolio, had instructed the department to make C-Forms online from January during a meeting of the cabinet sub-committee on tax reforms.
The filling of C-forms is mandatory for the traders and they were facing difficulties sometimes due to non-availability of forms.
Confirming the preparedness to make the C-forms available online, Excise and Taxation Commissioner Anurag Verma said that the demo-trials conducted by the department in this regard have yielded positive results.
Traders from SAS Nagar can download C-forms online by logging in their own accounts after January 15, said Verma adding that the maximum consumption of C-Forms is in ludhiana with SAS Nagar coming second.
He said that the forms would be available for download in ludhiana district from March while these would be available online throughout the state from April.
“The IT team of Excise and Taxation Department had prepared a software concerning this and the online availability of this form would benefit around 2.50 lakh traders of the state. Online availability of getting C-forms would make the mechanism a transparent and non-interactive besides preventing misuse of these forms,” he said.