GST anti-profiteering application complaint form being made simpler

GST anti-profiteering application complaint form being made simpler

Filing complaints against companies for not passing on the benefits of tax reduction under the goods and services tax (GST) regime is to become simpler. The government is expected to simplify the anti-profiteering application complaint form.
This comes after muted response to the mechanism and 150 complaints so far. Only six states got complaints directly. None has come from Delhi, Gujarat, West Bengal, Bihar, Telangana, and Madhya Pradesh.
B N Sharma, chairman of the anti-profiteering authority, had asked the standing committee, part of the mechanism, to suggest a simplified version of the form.
“The form will soon be simplified. Even a grade-five student will be able to file a complaint.

The mandatory fields have been cut down to a great extent,” said an official.
The new form will only require a complainant to mention the product and GST identification number of the seller. “The rest of the job will be of the government, to investigate and make a case. Any common man will be able to file a complaint,” said the official.
The current format requires detailed information such as sale price, taxes (both before and after GST), benefits of input credits, etc. Also, details such as GST identification number of the company in question and the six-digit harmonised system of nomenclature (HSN) code of products. A separate application needs to be filed for each good or service for which anti-profiteering is alleged.

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