Allege harassment, businessmen delegation meets commissioner

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Jammu, has claimed that the multiple issues concerning the state taxes were impacting traders in the region.

A delegation of the chamber led by its president Arun Gupta met the Commissioner of State Taxes Department in which they raised the issues concerning the traders.

Gupta said the businessmen who are doing their business honestly, paying and filing their GST return in time are being harassed on one pretext or the other.

“There is a general practice that even the businessmen who are doing their business honestly are being harassed on technical grounds, even on minor mistakes they are not been spared by the authorities,” Gupta said.

He said sometimes the traders import items with proper billing and try to deliver the imported goods to the parties nearby their business premises, they are penalised on the ground that as per GST laws they first have to unload the imported goods at their own business premises and then shift the said goods to the premises of the dealers.

Gupta also told the Commissioner that there are some dealers who have purchased taxable goods during Covid-19 period and have claimed the input tax credit. “However, they could not make the payment of their purchase bills within prescribed period of 180 days as the financial services and working in the banks remained badly affected during the time. The department has reversed the input tax credit and imposed penalty and interest on these dealers,” he said and requested the department that the interest and penalty should be waived.