Awareness programme on GST organized at Doda

DODA, JUNE 8, 2017: Department of Commercial Taxes, circle Doda today organised an awareness programme on Goods and service tax (GST) which was attended by CAs, Advocates, Sales tax practitioners, contractors besides a large number of people from business community.
Commercial Taxes officer circle Doda Gyas-ul-Haq in his introductory address, said that the event has been organised to aware the stakeholders about GST which will be rolled out from 1st July 2017 throughout the country.
Commercial Taxes officers, Neeraj Sharma and Arvind Sawhney- the resource persons made a detailed presentation covering all the major aspects of GST and its impact on tax structure and the dealers.
The participants were informed that the dealer having a turnover of less than Rs 10 Lakh need not to get themselves registered with the department. However those dealers having turnover up to Rs 50 lakh can opt for composite scheme. It was further informed that the dealers already registered with the department can switch over to the new tax regime through GST portal by 15th of June 2017.