Council on GST, Indirect & State Taxes

About the Council

The Council focuses on the issues related to GST, Custom duty and Excise duty.

The Council works with both Central and State Government officials to resolve the challenges which are faced by the industry and business. The Council sends representations and submissions to the Government authorities, Regulators on rectifying policies and finding solutions to various issues raised by the businesses and industry.

The Council hosts Events and Webinars with the experts for discussion on recent indicatives which have been taken by the Government in betterment of businesses.

The Chamber started another novel initiative, MCCI GST Help Desk, which was inaugurated by Mr. Khalid Aizaz Anwar, IAS, Commissioner, State Tax, Directorate of Commercial Taxes, Government of West Bengal on 3 March 2022 at MCCI.

The Help Desk is held in collaboration with the Directorate of Commercial Taxes, Government of West Bengal and CGST & CX, Kolkata Zone, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

The objective of the Help Desk is to provide mentoring & handholding services to our members and MSME units to help industry, MSMEs, business and trade leverage the opportunities and explore solutions to the key issues of :

1. Input Tax Credit
2. Filing of Returns
3. Refund
4. Compliances
5. Import Credit
6. Other priority topics