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The
Sales Tax Practitioners' Association of Maharashtra
President Communicates
Date:19.01.2009
Dear Members,
Sub: Due date of Form 704 in respect of
the year 2007-08
In continuation of our SMS regarding extension
of due date upto 2nd March, 2009, I hereby further
inform you as follows.
The Department is coming out with the new concept
of e-enrolment for all registered dealers. Every
registered dealer is now required to enroll himself
electronically for every kind of electronic filing.
This e-enrolment is obligatory for every registered
dealer even though he has already made e-registration
for filing electronic returns.
After e-enrolment is made by a registered dealer,
the 'Acknowledgment' will be made available on the
website. The signed copy of the Acknowledgment is
required to be furnished in the Department only
once. After furnishing such copy, there is no need
to furnish the signed acknowledgment of e-return
which at present is required to be furnished within
10 days from uploading the return.
The Department wants every registered dealer to
get e-enrolment in a very short time and as the
Sales Tax Practitioners were hesitant to do the
same job before 31st January 2009 because of heavy
pressure of VAT AUDIT, the Commissioner of Sales
Tax was not wiling to extend the Due date for Form
704.
After discussion with the undersigned it is decided
that Form 704 filed after 31st January, but on or
before 2nd March, will be treated as filed in time
if such dealer furnished the copy of 'Acknowledgement
of e-enrolment' as a proof along with Form 704.
For further clarification if necessary, all are
requested to wait for the Trade Circular to be issued
in next 7 to 8 days.
Kindly Note that no further extension will be granted.
Regards,
Deepak Bapat
President
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