Sikkim Chamber of Commerce is the pioneer trade body in the country to organize the 1st Awareness Camp on GST

01 Sep, Gangtok:

 In 1954, Goods and Service Tax (GST) was introduced for the first time in France. Today this tax has spread across 140 countries. This is going to be applicable from 01.04.2011 in India. And as this is a new system of Tax, there could be a lot of questions in the minds of the people about GST and most of them want some clarification regarding it.


It is understood that with the implementation of GST all the other taxes like CST, VAT, Service Tax, Excise Duty, Cess etc. shall be subsumed in it. All Businesses whether engaged in the sales or supply of services would be impacted by GST. system. As GST is a consumer based levy, the tax will be collected by the States where the goods or services actually are consumed.

Sikkim Chamber of Commerce is the pioneer trade body in the country to organize the 1st Awareness Camp on GST in association with the Department of Commercial taxes, Government of Sikkim.

The programme will have Shri H B Rai, Special Secretary, Commercial Taxes Dept as the Keynote speaker. He will also chair the Camp as the Chief Guest. Shri Manoj Rai, Deputy Commissioner, Govt. of Sikkim, shall deliver the talk on GST and Shri Vikash Diyali, Asst. Director, Computer Cell, will explain the E Services on tax compliance.

Shri M N Dahal, Deputy Commissioner, (Cess and Professional Taxes) will speak on the Environment Cess.



The Awareness Camp will be held in Gangtok at Hotel Tashi Delek on 7th Sept. 2010 and all the Trade, Hotel and Industrial Bodies with its members are invited to attend the Camp and make themselves fully aware on the GST and interact with the resource persons of Commercial Taxes Department, Government of Sikkim.





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