SHILLONG, OCT 11: Meghalaya chief minister. Mukul Sangma launched the e-CST Service of the state taxation department at the conference room of the Meghalaya secretariat in the presence of commissioner & secretary ERTS J Lyngdoh and commissioner of taxes Abhishek Bhagotia.
The main objective of the e-CST project is to replace the manual system of issuing of the statutory CST forms such as Form C, Form E-I, Form E-II, Form F and Form H by the electronic system. C-Form and other statutory forms that are currently issued in hard copy to dealers and send in hard
copy to accepting dealers can now be electronically issued.
Electronic request and issuance of forms under CST Act through the online portal of the taxation department will encompass broad sets of functionalities like enrolment of CST dealers with the taxation department for conducting inter-state trade, online request for C-Forms, provision of transaction ID to the applicant, verification of C-Forms documents.
The strength of this e-service is the simplification of cross verification process with taxation departments across the country, clean audit trail of subsequent verification, service delivery at the doorstep, reduces the requirement of physical interaction, increases revenue inflow and it is a robust and secured system making falsification and duplication impossible.
In his brief speech, chief minister Mukul Sangma lauded the effort of the taxation department for having moved a step ahead in upholding the objectives of e-governance. He said that it is the endeavour of the government to ensure that the taxation department also leverage upon the new technology which will not only ease the problems of the people but will also ensure efficiency in the delivery of services. – By Our Reporter
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