Removal of pendency of registration application filed during COVID period - F.17(151)ACCT/GST/2017/5833 - Rajasthan SGST

GOVERNMENT OF RAJASTHAN COMMERCIAL TAXES DEPARTMENT F.17(151)ACCT/GST/2017/5833 Date : 20.07.2020 All Addl. Commissioner (Adm.), Commercial Taxes Department, . Subject: Removal of pendency of registration application filed during COVID period. Sub-section (10) of section 25 of the RGST Act, 2017 read with rule 9 of RGST Rules, 2017, provides for deemed approval of application of registration after a period Of three working days, if the proper officer fails to take any action on the said application within the said period of three working days. 2. Strong apprehensions had been raised on possible mis-use of the deeming provision during the COVID lock down period. where either the central/ state tax offices are closed or are functioning with skeletal staff. Since the lockdown applied across all establishments including those belonging to the Government, during the lockdown period there being no 'working days , it has been decided that the deemed approval of application of registration would not be granted on the portal with effect from 25 March, 2020. Accordingly, deemed approvals had been held up. Deemed approvals have been granted for all those applications pending as on 30.06.2020, which had not been processed till 15th July, 2020. 3. It has been further decided that the applications received thereafter which remain pending as on 28.07.2020 shall be deemed approved on 31.07.2020 and the 3 days deemed approval of application of registration would be resumed from 1 st Augusts 2020. Accordingly, it is requested that all the pending applications of registration be disposed off, on or before 31 st July. 2020 as a special drive. In this regard, directions have also been given in the VC dated 13.07,2020 for liquidating the pending applications before the deemed approval of registration gets resumed. Special Commissioner (MEA) Will monitor them on a daily basis till 28.07.2020, so that the pendency is liquidated. 4. It is also noticed that during the lockdown period also, a few registration applications have been deemed approved on the portal because of technical glitches. GSTN has been requested to forward the list of such GSTINs who got deemed approval during the lockdown to the jurisdictional officers. In such cases, where ever required, proper officers may get the physical verification of business premises done with intimation to concerned Additional Commissioner (Adm.). (Abbishek Bhagotia) Chief Commissioner State Tax, Rajasthan, Jaipur