New Delhi, Nov 3 (KNN) Commercial Taxes Department has set up a GST facilitation desk at Excise and Taxation Complex Rail Head with a view to handhold food processing MSMEs of district Jammu particularly with regard to GST related issues.

The desk will remain functional for next 100 days to redress the GST related issues faced by food processing MSMEs of district Jammu.

Additional Commissioner Commercial Taxes, SK Gupta made the helpdesk operational along with the support of nodal team of officers, after the launch of ‘Support and Outreach’ initiative for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Vighyan New Delhi.

During the occasion, participants from the food processing sector were also made aware about the procedures of GST registration, return filling, refund claims & e-way registrations by the resource persons besides provisioning of copies of Act, Rules & FAQs.

Out of 80 districts of the country, district Jammu has been selected where this outreach and support program will run for the next 100 days with a view to provide greater synergy to the efforts being made for this growth sector.

Department of Financial Services (Government of India) is the Nodal Agency to monitor the overall progress of the program.