ClearTax, CII conduct GST awareness workshop for businesses in Hyderabad

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ClearTax’s knowledge-sharing initiatives to make businesses and tax professionals GST-ready

Bangalore based Financial-Technology platform ClearTax, providing solutions for Income Tax filing, GST and Mutual Fund Investments, along with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) successfully concluded a one day GST awareness workshop for businesses on 22nd August, 2019 at Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel in Hyderabad, to educate businesses on the latest changes that have taken place in the world of taxation around New GST Returns, Annual GST Returns and E-way bill.

Shri. J Laxminaryana, Additional Commissioner State Tax, Commercial Taxes Department, Government of Telangana was the chief guest at the inaugural function.

The in-depth GST workshop was attended by over 60 companies from across Telangana. The participants were the CFOs and Finance/Tax Heads where ClearTax detailed out its enterprise product suite to address the customer’s issues related to indirect taxation such as:

Annual GST Returns

•           Issues related to reporting liability in GSTR-9

•           Liability and turnover matches with GSTR 1 but not with GSTR-3B

•           Liability and turnover matches with GSTR-3B but not with GSTR-1

•           The difference in liability reported in books vis-a-vis GSTR-3B & GSTR-1

•           Differences in ITC claimed in GSTR-3B in comparison with books and GSTR-2A

E-way bill under GST

•           E-way bill generation through incorrect user IDs

•           Inability to track and record the e-way bills generated

•           Concerned stakeholders who are not able to utilize e-way bill’s validity period

•           Increased risk of penalty being levied due to incorrect documents

New GST Returns

•           Continuous reconciliation has become critical

•           Need for a tool in place that can help in easy vendor communication

•           Amendment of a wrongly locked invoice

•           Compulsion to take the necessary actions concerning invoices within the stipulated time in order to optimally utilize ITC and manage his funds

The workshop garnered good response from the participants who had doubts on various aspects of E-way bill, Annual and new GST Returns.

Archit Gupta, Founder & CEO, ClearTax said, “GST is both a change in the indirect tax regime and business transformation. Getting ready for such a change in the processes, understanding the new legislation and redeveloping the IT systems for being GST compliant is highly imperative for all stakeholders. This GST awareness workshop would help in better understanding of GST and make compliances easy.”

ClearTax has a range of end-to-end solutions for businesses and individuals to make their GST compliance easier. ClearTax has specialized software which understands the GST law and is updated with all the recent developments in terms of compliance regulations. The software uses intelligent algorithms that employ machine learning to match invoices to relevant entries.

About ClearTax

ClearTax is India’s fastest growing Tax & Compliance software company. It is a technology company that helps people, enterprises and the government with tax, compliance and mutual fund investments. It was incubated in Y Combinator and are funded by Silicon Valley investors, including PayPal co-founders Peter Theil’s Founders Fund, Max Levchin and also by Scott Banister, who was an early investor in Facebook and Uber. ClearTax’s investors include Composite Capital, Sequoia Capital and SAIF Partners. ClearTax is a product by Defmacro Software Pvt Ltd. Earlier this year ClearTax was also branded a unicorn startup by ‘The New York Times’.

Visit www.cleartax.in to see how ClearTax can build a better financial future for you.

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