WB Tax Dept extends date for creating ID & Pswd, uploading required info on GSTN portal

Kolkata, Dec 19 (KNN) The Directorate of Commercial Taxes, West Bengal, has informed the MSMEs that the Goods & Services Tax Network (GSTN) has extended the last date for creating user name and password and for uploading of required information upto December 22, 2016.

In a communication to the industry bodies, the department said, “The information thus can be uploaded on GSTN by the dealers registered under the VAT Act in West Bengal upto 22.12.2016.”

GSTN has started migrating existing VAT payers into GST system from November 30, 2016 onwards and will continue up to December 15, 2016.

The GST Network can be accessed using Provisional ID and Token which has been made available to individual dealers on logging under the link Dealer Status at the website www.wbcomtax.gov.in  (see left side column of the home screen under Other Services).

The department had asked the MSMEs, who do not readily have documents required to be uploaded on GSTN, should at least login into the GSTN for the first time through NEW USER LOGIN and create username and password from GSTN Common Portal at https://www.gst.gov.in/ so that they are able to log into GSTN even at a later date.

The ID and Password for the WB VAT website and that for GSTN are different and should be used accordingly for respective website, it said. (KNN Bureau)