Kerala GST Department vide Trade Notice No. 18/2023 dated October 30, 2023 issued Operational instructions regarding the Payment of tax and other amounts including arrear demands issued in Acts other than GST through the e-Treasury Portal.
Payment of tax and other amounts under various statues administered by the department like Kerala Value Added Tax Act, 2003, Kerala General Sales Tax Act,1963, Kerala Money Lenders Act,1958, The Kerala Tax on Luxuries Act, 1976, The Kerala Agricultural Income Tax Act, 1991 and various other levies including Surcharges and Kerala Flood Cess introduced through various Finance Acts are made mainly through Kerala Value Added Tax Information Management System (KVATIS) software application.
Arrear demands based on self-declaration by dealers or assessment by officers or fees and other deposits related to appeal filing or any other reasons were made by submitting manual challans in treasuries by dealers and by officers of the department by depositing Cash or Cheque or DD collected from the dealers.
Consequent to the implementation of the Integrated Finance Management System (IFMS), the Treasury Department has started not accepting over the counter payments using manual challans for payment of arrear demands as described in para 2 above from general public and from the department. Instead, an online facility was introduced in e-Treasury portal for effecting payment of departmental receipts by creating an online challan pay-in-slip. The various head of accounts for the above payments have been added in the e-Treasury portal to facilitate the same.
Hence to facilitate the dealers and officials, the following instructions are issued for the remittance of demands other than CGST, SGST, IGST and Compensation Cess.
Official copy of the circular has been attached below
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