E-mail:[email protected]Visit us at: www.aiccta.com ALL INDIA CONFEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL TAXES ASSOCIATIONS (AICCTA) President : 9440746556 9949887001 Genl.Secy : 9967838909 K.R.Suryanarayana President Mahesh Chandurkar General Secretary To Date: 14-07-2011 The Hon’ble Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, Chennai. Honored Sir, Sub:- Implementation of GST – All India Confederation of Commercial Taxes Association -Organizational restructuring to implement GST representation – Reg. **** The introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be an important milestone in the history of indirect taxation in India. The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers has released a First Discussion Paper in Nov 2009 outlining the design of GST to be implemented in India. Since then many meetings of Empowered Committee have been held to arrive at a consensus between Centre's proposals and States concerns and the fresh deadline for GST implementation is likely to be April'2012. Sir, as you are aware the GST system to be implemented in our country is a dual and concurrent GST and both the Centre and State Governments would be levying tax on the same tax base. The concern of the State governments is that their fiscal autonomy may get eroded if GST is implemented in the present design proposed by Centre. Till now, the State Tax Administrative departments are implementing VAT on sales of goods and the sales tax revenue forms a major chunk of the revenues of the State. These VAT departments have to enforce GST concurrently along with Central Excise Department. Sir, while the State VAT Departments are unanimous in welcoming prime objective of GST that the new Tax System integrates Center and States in Tax System with uniformity and simplicity. There are certain concerns and apprehensions about their organizational restructuring in the wake of implementation of GST among the officers and employees of the State VAT Departments in the country that in the proposed dual and concurrent GST, the administrative procedures may be framed to the disadvantage of State VAT Departments. Simultaneously, the State VAT Departments have certain aspirations also to achieve with the introduction of GST.
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E-mail:[email protected] Visit us at: www.aiccta.com ALL INDIA CONFEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL TAXES ASSOCIATIONS
(AICCTA)
President : 9440746556 9949887001
Genl.Secy : 9967838909
K.R.Suryanarayana President
Mahesh Chandurkar General Secretary
To Date: 14-07-2011 The Hon’ble Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, Chennai. Honored Sir,
Sub:- Implementation of GST – All India Confederation of Commercial Taxes Association -Organizational restructuring to implement GST representation – Reg.
****
The introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be an important
milestone in the history of indirect taxation in India. The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers has released a First Discussion Paper in Nov 2009 outlining the design of GST to be implemented in India. Since then many meetings of Empowered Committee have been held to arrive at a consensus between Centre's proposals and States concerns and the fresh deadline for GST implementation is likely to be April'2012.
Sir, as you are aware the GST system to be implemented in our country is a dual and concurrent GST and both the Centre and State Governments would be levying tax on the same tax base. The concern of the State governments is that their fiscal autonomy may get eroded if GST is implemented in the present design proposed by Centre. Till now, the State Tax Administrative departments are implementing VAT on sales of goods and the sales tax revenue forms a major chunk of the revenues of the State. These VAT departments have to enforce GST concurrently along with Central Excise Department.
Sir, while the State VAT Departments are unanimous in welcoming prime
objective of GST that the new Tax System integrates Center and States in Tax System with uniformity and simplicity. There are certain concerns and apprehensions about their organizational restructuring in the wake of implementation of GST among the officers and employees of the State VAT Departments in the country that in the proposed dual and concurrent GST, the administrative procedures may be framed to the disadvantage of State VAT Departments. Simultaneously, the State VAT Departments have certain aspirations also to achieve with the introduction of GST.
E-mail:[email protected] Visit us at: www.aiccta.com ALL INDIA CONFEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL TAXES ASSOCIATIONS
(AICCTA)
President : 9440746556 9949887001
Genl.Secy : 9967838909
K.R.Suryanarayana President
Mahesh Chandurkar General Secretary
It is in this context the officers and employees of all State VAT Departments have come together and formed into an Association by name “All India Confederation of Commercial Taxes Associations” in short form “AICCTA”, to voice their concerns, to protect their interests and to achieve their aspirations. Several National Executive Committee meetings were also held with the participation of as many as 22 states VAT Department representatives.
The concerns of all state tax departments were heard and AICCTA wishes to
bring these to the notice of Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers and hopes that the concerns would be addressed before implementation of GST. AICCTA heartily welcomes the GST but opines that the concerns of State tax employees shall be addressed so as to make the implementation of GST a success.
It is resolved in the National Executive Committee meeting that the office
bearers of the National Executive Committee shall meet all the States Chief Ministers and Finance Ministers to express the concerns of State Tax department officers and employees and to impress upon them to support to the genuine cause of the state taxman and to place the same before the Empower Committee to achieve the demands. The main demands of officers and employees of State tax departments are as below:
The All India Confederation of Commercial Taxes Association shall be represented in the meetings of Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers.
The Ambit of Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers shall be widened
to include the organizational restructuring of State VAT departments in addition to the design issues of GST,
There shall be a uniform pay structure for all State Tax Department Employees
and also there shall be parity in pay and working conditions as compared to employees of Central Excise Department as both would be implementing same tax and discharging similar functions.
While taking up organizational restructuring of state tax departments
for implementation of GST, the interests of employees of state tax departments shall be addressed suitably.
E-mail:[email protected] Visit us at: www.aiccta.com ALL INDIA CONFEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL TAXES ASSOCIATIONS
(AICCTA)
President : 9440746556 9949887001
Genl.Secy : 9967838909
K.R.Suryanarayana President
Mahesh Chandurkar General Secretary
The division of jurisdiction between State VAT departments and CBEC shall be done in such a way that it is not disadvantage of State VAT departments. State departments are more experienced in VAT implementation which is similar to GST and are presently assessing 60 lakh taxpayers which is more than 5 times what CBEC is doing.
An All India Tax Service with uniform pay structure can be created for successful
implementation of GST in India.
Accordingly, while bringing the above demands to the notice of Hon’ble Finance Minister, Government of Tamil Nadu, we members of AICCTA hope that the Hon’ble Finance Minister will bring these concerns to the notice of Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers and Union Finance Minister.
