Confederation of All India Traders has said if no action is taken against Infosys for poor implementation of the GST portal, "it will have no other alternative left but to take shelter of the Court of Law"

In a statement, "GST portal has brought much harassment and mental agony to traders by its non smooth functioning and has proved a major roadblock in success of a good taxation system like GST," CAIT said in a statement.

The Confederation has earlier demanded a CBI inquiry into Infosys for the same issue.

"No one will be allowed to run away with public money," it said.

Quashing Infosys’ claim of the portal working correctly, the CAIT has challenged the company to conduct random sample survey of the portal in 10 different cities of India to examine working of the portal, which they claim will reveal  "how difficult it is to use the portal for filing information."

Infosys could not be reached immediately for comment outside of regular business hours.

CAIT also sent a letter to Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Consumer Affairs Minister, to allow pasting of revised price stickers on the current stocks held with the Traders and Manufacturers across the Country for the packaged goods.

The issue is that under the Packaged Commodity Act, it is a mandatory provision that any commodity in packaged shape will invariably have printed maximum retail price.

The need has arisen because the GST tax rates of about 200 products were revised by the GST Council on 10th November, which will accordingly require traders to revise the prices of all packaged commodities in the country by pasting revised price stickers.

CAIT estimates that goods worth about Rs 9 lakh crore are still in the market across the country out of which goods of about Rs 6 lakh crore is in packaged condition, with MRP beside stocks held with the manufacturers.

"If it is not allowed than this huge quantum of goods can’t be sold in the market from and if such goods goes out of supply chain , it will have adverse impact on manufacturing sector and will hamper economic growth to a great extent and possibilities of scarcity of daily consumables can’t be ruled out," the traders body said.

 14 Nov 2017, 11:56 AM