Simplifying GST returns: How the removal of ITC payment linkage will benefit SMEs

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) was introduced with effect from July 1, 2017. GST replaces different taxes and also aims at simplifying indirect taxation. The GST Council has been working continuously for making many improvements for better implementation. While the efforts of the GST Council are laudable, there is one important and vexatious problem that needs to be addressed to ensure GST roll out is smooth for all taxpayers, more so for those in the SME sector.

One of the most important provisions in the GST law is that input credit is available to the buyer only if the GST has been remitted by the seller to the Government. This way, the Government is completely shielded from anyone who collects tax, but fails to remit it.

It is true that there is a small minority of tax payers who may keep the government away from its rightful revenue. But to handle problems caused by a small number of such dishonest persons the Government is putting a huge burden on the entire taxpaying community. Just imagine a situation where a person goes to a Police Station to report theft in his house and the police tell him to fetch the culprit and sort out the matter mutually or accept the loss.

Today, there are many safeguards in the system, like Aadhaar, etc, which make it difficult for someone to evade taxes. Such technology must be put to good and provide small and medium businesses an easy and simple way of claiming what is rightfully theirs.

Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/sme-sector/simplifying-gst-returns-how-the-removal-of-itc-payment-linkage-will-benefit-smes/articleshow/63218259.cms

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