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..... Direct and Indirect Taxes - News and Press Release Dated:- 8-2-2019 - News - The details of Net Direct Tax Collections during the Financial Year (FY) 2017-18 and FY 2018-19 (up to January, 2019) are as under: (Rs. in Crore) Financial Year Total Direct Tax 2017-18 10,02,037 2018-19 *(up to January, 2019) 7,88,930 * Provisional The number of taxpayers under Direct Taxes for Assessment Year (AY) 2016-17 were 6.92 crore and for Assessment Year 2017-18, it increased to 7.41 crore. A taxpayer is a person who either files a return of income or in whose case tax has been deducted or paid. Dat .....

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..... a in respect of AY 2018-19 has not yet been compiled as the time to file return for AY 2018-19 is not yet over. The Direct-Tax GDP ratio for the FY 2017-18 is 5.98%. As far as the Direct Tax GDP ratio for the FY 2018-19 is concerned it is stated that Direct Tax GDP ratio is compiled after the end of the Financial Year. Details of the GST collected by Union of India is as under:- (Rs. in crore) Financial Year Total GST Collection 2017-18 203260.29 2018-19 331369.85 The actual collection of Indirect Taxes (Non-GST) is as under:- (Rs. in crore) Financial Year Tota .....

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..... l Indirect Taxes (Non-GST) Collection 2017-18 4,69,092 2018-19(April-January) 2,89,661 Provisional Receipt and Disposal of technical queries during 01.07.17 to 04.02.19 by Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) is as under: Receipt: 21,20,599 Disposal: 21,15,082 The Government has conducted large scale awareness and training workshops for traders and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to teach the working of the GSTN. The details are as under: National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes Narcotics (NACIN) and its Zonal Training Institutes (ZTIs) have been conducting awareness campaign and .....

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..... outreach programmes on GST which also includes the functioning of (GSTN). Further, NACIN under GST Training Accreditation Programme has selected various institutes/organizations of repute to conduct trainings on GST to member of Trade, Industry other stakeholders. The details of the trainings on GST for trade and MSME sector are given below:- Particulars Total Trainings conducted Total members of Trade MSME trained BY NACIN and its ZTIs 166 14039 By Approved Training 200 12414 Partners (ATPs) .....

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..... Apart from above, GSTN has also trained about 2000 tax officials of CBIC State Tax Departments as Master Trainers, who in turn train other tax officers and assist taxpayers in their respective jurisdictions throughout India. Comprehensive User Manual documents are prepared and replies to FAQs have been prepared for all the functionalities on the GST Portal and have been made available to public through GST Portal. GSTN has created 10 Training Kits and 37 Short Videos for providing a demo on various GST processes. The same are available at the Help section of GST Portal Homepage. GSTN has signed MoU with NeGD (National e-Governance Division) for conducting Webinars on different topics related to GST Portal. Till date, 100 .....

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..... Webinars have been conducted and the same are also available for view at YouTube Channels of GSTN and Digital India Learning of the NeGD. GSTN officials have attended Workshop/Seminars/Outreach programmes, organized by various bodies such as FICCI, CII, CAIT, CBIC, ICAI, FIEO, ACAE, across India, wherein the participants were briefed about the GST Portal and the processes therein. GSTN has signed a MoU with NIELIT (National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology), an autonomous body under Ministry of Electronics IT, and CSC (Common Service Centre) and trained their representatives. These two organizations provide further guidance and services regarding GST Portal processes through their Centres spread across India. .....

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..... Late fee is levied u/s 47 of the CGST Act, 2017 on any registered person who fails to furnish returns by the due date at the rate of ₹ 100 every day during which such failure continues subject to maximum amount of ₹ 5000/-. In order to ameliorate the concerns of taxpayers and to smoothen the transition to new regime, the Government has reduced the late fee for delayed filing of details in Form GSTR-1 and returns in Form-GSTR-3B/ Form GSTR- 4 to ₹ 25/- for every day during which such failure continues subject to maximum amount of ₹ 5000/- under CGST and an equal amount under SGST. Further, the Government has reduced the late fee for delayed filing of returns where the total amount of central tax payable in the sai .....

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..... d return is nil to ₹ 10/-for every day during which such failure continues subject to maximum amount of ₹ 5000/- under CGST and an equal amount under SGST. Further, the Government has fully waived off the late fee for the registered persons who failed to furnish returns for the months/quarters from July, 2017 to September, 2018 by the due date but furnish the said returns between the period from 22nd December, 2018 to 31st March, 2019. Late Fee collected upto 4th February, 2019, net of reversals, is under:- Period Net Late Fees Collected (Rs. in crore) 1st July, 2017 to 4 th February, 2019 4,172.44 This was stated by Shri Shiv .....

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..... Pratap Shukla, Minister of State for Finance in a Written Reply to a Question in Lok Sabha today. - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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