SAKSHAM - Bonanza for CBEC
THE Revenue Officers who were feeling left out and ignored in the GST Scheme received a boost yesterday when the cabinet sanctioned a whopping Rs.2,256 crore for the 'Project SAKSHAM', the new Indirect Tax Network (Systems Integration) of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC). The IRS officers are very happy that they have their own version of GSTN, all for themselves. Subramanian Swamy was quick to tweet - "The unravelling of GSTN has begun. The Cabinet today set up a new back end network called Saksham under CBEC and allocated 2256 crores."
But the Government has clarified that there is no overlap in the GST-related systems of CBEC and GSTN.