Shillong, Oct 11: Meghalaya Chief Minister, Dr. Mukul Sangma today launched the e-CST Service of the Taxation Department, Government of Meghalaya at the Conference Room of the Meghalaya Secretariat, Shillong in the presence of Commissioner & Secretary ERTS, Mr J Lyngdoh and Commissioner of Taxes, Mr. Abhishek Bhagotia among officials of the Taxation Department.
It may be mentioned here that the main objective of the e-CST project is to
replace the manual system of issuing of the statutory CST forms such as Form C, Form E-I, Form E-II, Form F and Form H by the electronic system. C-Form and other statutory forms that are currently issued in hard copy to dealers and sent in hard copy to accepting dealers can be electronically issued. Electronic request and issuance of forms under CST Act through the online portal of the Taxation Department will encompass broad sets of functionalities like enrolment of CST dealers with the Taxation Department for conducting inter-state trade, online request for C-Forms, provision of transaction ID to the applicant, verification of C-Forms documents etc,.
The strength of this e-service is the simplification of cross verification process
with Taxation Departments across the country, clean audit trail of subsequent
verification, service delivery at the doorstep, reduces the requirement of
physical interaction, increases revenue inflow and it is a robust and secured
system making falsification and duplication impossible.
In his brief speech, Dr. Mukul Sangma lauded the effort of the Taxation Department for having moved a step ahead in upholding the objectives of e-governance. He said that it is the endeavour of the Government to ensure that the Taxation Department also leverage upon the new technology which will not only ease the problems of the people but will also ensure efficiency in the delivery of services.(SP News)
