Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 13: The president Chamber of Commerce and Industry Jammu Rakesh Gupta along with office bearers called upon the Commissioner Commercial Taxes PK Bhat, in his office chamber today.
During the meeting the Commissioner Commercial Taxes (CT) apprised the Chamber team that 30% of the assesses have not filed their GST returns for the month of December 2018 and 8% of the Assesses have not filed a single return since the GST came into force in July 2017. He also told the Chamber president that the dealers whose returns are “NIL” should also mandatorily file their returns.
The Chamber president assured the Commissioner Commercial Taxes that the Chamber shall convey the concern of the department to all its members from Trade and Industry to file their due GST returns within this week so that the department does not have to visit the premises of the assesses for inspection.
Also present in the meeting were Shahid Saleem Dar, Additional Commissioner Commercial Taxes, Rajesh Gupta senior vice president JCCI, Rajeev Gupta, vice president and Manish Gupta, secretary general JCCI.