Jaipur, Apr 11 (KNN) The Rajasthan government has decided to appoint 2,000 ‘Tax Mitras’ to assist in the collection of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Value Added Tax (VAT) as well as MSME application process.

A fee has been fixed which the Tax Mitra will charge for various tax-related application processes.

In this, a fee of Rs 50 to Rs 400 has been kept for other works including GST, VAT application, amendment, ITC, e-way bill, subsidy application, MSME application.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved the proposal and said that this will make it easier to deposit the tax.

Gehlot has also given the approval to develop an ‘Artificial Intelligence’ based e-tax officer software platform to provide the facility of ‘self tax check’ to the dealers.

According to this, the minimum educational qualification for Tax Mitra is graduation in commerce. Preference will be given to experienced applicants including Chartered Accountants (CA), Company Secretaries (CS). The Age limit has been fixed from 21 to 40 years.  (KNN Bureau)