Enrolment for eServices

Office of the Commissioner of Sales Tax,
Maharashtra State,
829, 8th Floor, Vikrikar Bhavan,
Mazgaon, Mumbai-400 010.
TRADE CIRCULAR

To
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No. VAT/ AMD-1008/IB/ADM-06 Mumbai Dt: 23rd January, 2009
Trade Cir. 4 T of 2009

Sub: Enrollment for E-Services

Ref.:
1. Notification No. VAT-1007/IB/ADM-6 dated 14th March, 2008.
2. Trade Circular No.8T of 2008 dated 19th March, 2008.
3. Notification No. VAT-1007/IB/ADM-6 dated 19th April, 2008.
4. Trade Circular No. 16T of 2008 dated 19th March, 2008.
5. Notification No. VAT-1007/IB/ADM-6 dated 30th August, 2008.
6. Notification No. VAT-1007/IB/ADM-6 dated 16th Sept., 2008.
7. Trade Circular No.31T of 2008 dated 8th Sept., 2008.
8. Trade Circular No.33T of 2008 dated 30th Sept., 2008.
9. Trade Circular No.40T of 2008 dated 18th November, 2008.
10. Notification No. VAT-1007/IB/ADM-6 dated 20th Dec., 2008.
11. Trade Circular No.1 T of 2009 dated 12th January, 2009.
Gentlemen/Sir/Madam,
You are aware that the scheme of filing returns electronically was made applicable from 1st March, 2008. The scheme was implemented in a phased manner. Now, it has been made mandatory for all the registered dealers to file returns electronically in respect of the periods starting on or after 1st October, 2008.
2.The Department proposes to provide the compendium of e-services viz., e-return, e-registration, e-declarations, e-annexure, e-Form-704 etc. For availing of these e-services it is mandatory for the dealers to get enrolled with the Department’s web-site i.e. http://www.mahavat.gov.in/
3.Enrollment for e-services: - The enrollment for e-services is a one time activity. Once the dealer gets enrolled for e-services with the Department, the same Log-in ID and password so created and confirmed by him while enrolling himself, shall be used for availing compendium of e-services viz., e-return, e- registration, e- declarations, e-annexure, e-Form-704 etc. The computer system will generate an acknowledgement once the dealer is enrolled for e-services. The enrolled dealer should submit to the Department a copy of an acknowledgment duly signed by a person authorized to sign the returns. Once he does so, thereafter it will not be necessary for him to periodically submit to the Department the copy of the acknowledgment that he gets at the time of filing e-returns. Thus, after the enrollment for e-services, the dealer shall be free from the hassles of submitting the signed copy of an acknowledgement to the Department every time he files an e-return.
4. Procedure for Enrollment: - A large number of dealers have already been enrolled (registered) with the Sales Tax Department web-site http://www.mahavat.gov.in/ and are filing e-returns. Many dealers are however yet to be enrolled. The procedure for enrollment for e-services is slightly different for the dealers who have already been enrolled for e-returns than the procedure for dealers who are yet to be enrolled. The procedure of enrollment for both of these categories is described below:-
[a] Dealers who are yet to be enrolled: - The dealer who for the first time proposes to get enrolled with Departments web-site i.e. http://www.mahavat.gov.in/ has to use TIN (11 Digit Number without suffix) as log-in ID. However, after log-in, the dealer is required to fill information in the mandatory fields. After, filling these fields the dealer shall create his own password and confirm the same. After successful enrollment, the system will generate an acknowledgement; the dealer shall take the print-out of the same. The acknowledgement so generated shall be duly signed by him/her or by authorised person who is authorized to sign returns and shall be submitted to the Department along with the Audit Report for the period 2007-08. The password so created and confirmed by the dealer is to be used for uploading the e-return or availing any of the other e-services.
[b] Dealers who are already Enrolled (registered) for e-returns: - The dealers who are already enrolled (registered) with the Sales Tax Department for filing of e-return will continue to use their existing log-in ID i.e. 11 digit TIN without suffix and the existing password which they have already created for filing e-return. It may be noted that the already enrolled dealers (i.e. dealers enrolled for e-returns) are not required to create a new password. But they also need to submit the duly signed acknowledgment the Department. For this purpose after log-in, the dealer may view acknowledgement at >Dealers Information>Transaction Details >Acknowledgement. The dealers are requested to download the acknowledgement and take a print out. The acknowledgement shall be signed by the person who is authorized to sign returns and submit the same along with the Audit Report.
5.The dealers who are not liable to submit Audit Report shall submit the copy of duly signed acknowledgement:-
[a] In Mumbai, in the office of Joint Commissioner of Sales Tax (Registration Branch), Ground floor, New Building, Vikrikar Bhavan, Mazgaon, Mumbai 400 010.
[b] In areas other than Mumbai, Registering Authorities of the respective locations.
6.This circular cannot be made use of for legal interpretation of provisions of law as it is clarificatory in nature. If any member of the trade has any doubt, he may refer the matter to this office for further clarification.
7.You are requested to bring the contents of this circular to the notice of the members of your association.
Yours faithfully,
(Sanjay Bhatia)
Commissioner of Sales Tax
Maharashtra State, Mumbai.

No. VAT/ AMD-1008/IB/ADM-06 Mumbai Dt : 23rd January, 2009
Trade Cir.4 T of 2009
1. Copy forwarded To:
a. All the Addl. Commissioners of Sales Tax in the State.
b. All the Joint Commissioner of Sales Tax in the State.
c. The Joint Commissioner of Sales Tax (Mahavikas), with a request to upload this Trade Circular to the Departments web-site.
d. All the Senior Deputy Commissioners of Sales Tax in the State.
e. All the Deputy. Commissioner of Sales Tax in the State.
f. All the Assistant Commissioners of Sales Tax in the State.
g. All the Sales Tax Officers in the State.
2. Copy forwarded with compliments for information to:
a. The Officer on Special Duty, Finance Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai.
b. The Under Secretary, Finance Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai.
c. The Accounts Officer, Sales Tax Revenue Audit, Mumbai and Nagpur.
3. Copy to:-
All the Desks and Desk Officers in the office of the Commissioner of Sales Tax, Maharashtra State, Mumbai.
(G. B. Indurkar)
Joint Commissioner of Sales Tax,
(H.Q.) I, Maharashtra State, Mumbai