Amend PAN and TAN requirement under GST : ICAI Suggestions

By | August 15, 2017
(Last Updated On: August 15, 2017)

Suggestions on GST Acts (July 2017) by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

26. Registration in case of a person required to deduct tax under section 51

Section 25(6) of the CGST Act provides that every person shall have a Permanent Account Number issued under the Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) in order to be eligible for grant of registration under sub-section (1), (2) or (3):

PROVIDED that a person required to deduct tax under section 51 shall have, in lieu of a Permanent Account Number, a Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number (TAN) issued under the said Act in order to be eligible for grant of registration.

Issue

 It might be possible that the supplier is required to deduct TDS under GST law but is not required to deduct TDS under income tax act but mandating him to obtain tan under income tax act will add compliance burden.

 The entire issue boils down to the fact that, it an agreed and acceptable argument that PAN would be the bedrock for GST. Since PAN is not mandatory for every citizen of India, it would be a long-drawn process, and if for any reason allotment of PAN is delayed then the person would be suffering from loss of Input credit and penalty for delay in filing of application would also be levied on him. Loss of Input Tax Credit on the Capital Goods
would be an even bigger loss.

Suggestion

 It is suggested that the supplier who is required to deduct TDS under GST not be required to obtain TAN mandatorily under Income Tax Act and may obtain registration by using PAN.

 It is suggested that as was provided in the draft report to allot temporary registration in case of enforcement cases and then converting the temporary registration to PAN based registration. A temporary registration may also be allotted in normal cases till PAN is allotted with a maximum time of 15 days to update PAN and subsequently converting the temporary registration to PAN based.

Read ICAI Suggestions on GST Act to Govt : July 2017

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