1.6 lakh businesses register on GSTN in 4 days
29 Jun 2017 4:34 PM GMT
As many as 1.6 lakh businesses that were previously not registered for either VAT, service tax or excise duty have enrolled for Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the past four days.
As the GST Network portal reopened for the third time registration for both new assessees and existing excise, service tax and VAT payers on June 25, businesses rushed to get themselves registered ahead of the July 1 rollout of GST.
"Since June 25, 1.60 lakh applications for fresh registrations have come in. Of this 53,000 applications have been completed with details of business. The rest are in process," GSTN Chairman Navin Kumar told PTI here. New businesses have 30 days for registering on the GSTN portal beginning June 25. In first two rounds of registration window, about 66 lakh out of existing indirect tax payers of 80.91 lakh had registered with GST Network, the IT backbone for GST. Kumar said there were many businesses in sectors like tax, sugar and diamond that were earlier not registered with the state tax department and are now registering.
The 15-digit provisional ID would work as the Goods and Services Taxpayer Identification Number (GSTIN).
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