SMEs are suffering due to complex GST returns
1.Under Income Tax Act, a business men upto a turnover of Rs. 2.00 Crores, is allowed to have a Presumptive taxation to declare 8% of profits without maintaining books of accounts, But with this GST, he has to maintain all those books even though his turnover is less than Rs.2.00 crores.
2. Even a composition dealer registered under GST law has to pay taxes on account of reverse charge Just because he is registered dealer under GST.
3.All details relating to all monthly expenses except salaries are to be reported in the GSTR-2 return in classified manner with full details invoice wise, of vendors who provided the material or service along with his GSTN no. etc details
4. Even though the expenses are from unregistered dealer, he has to provide total such expenses in the return
5.He has to provide all details such as quantitative as well as HSN code wise and also how many number of vouchers, invoices, D.Cs, Receipt vouchers etc, etc.
6. He has to follow up with the his vendors for filing correct & timely returns or else he will be deprived off the input credit.
Government should think and simplify the GST returns at least for businessmen below Rs. 2.00 crores turnover or else most of the small businesses will become prey to GST officials for all sorts of technical lapses. more