Office of the,
Commissioner of Sales Tax
8th Floor, Vikrikar Bhavan,
Mazgaon, Mumbai-400010.
TRADE CIRCULAR
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No. ACT VAT-2/ Digitally Signed Registration Certificate/2015/
Trade Circular No. 13 T of 2015 Mumbai. Dated al /12/2015
Subject: Downloading of Digitally Signed Registration Certificate
Ref: Trade Circular No. 7T of 2015 Dt. 19th May , 2015.
A dealer seeking registration under the Maharashtra Value added Tax Act, 2002 submits an online application for registration along with the required documents. The Registration Officer to whom such application gets allocated generates the TIN if the application is found to be correct and is supported with the appropriate documents. Subsequently, the Registration Officer informs the applicant through an email that the TIN has been granted and sends a printed copy of the (TIN) registration certificate to the applicant on the address mentioned in the application through Speed Post. However, it has been observed that in many cases the delivery of (TIN) registration certificates to the applicant is delayed.
In order to ensure immediate availability of the (TIN) registration certificate to the applicant, a facility has been made available to download the digitally signed (TIN) registration certificate from the website of the Maharashtra Sales Tax Department i.e. www.mahavat.gov.in. The Annexure A attached to this circular provides information about downloading of the (TIN) registration certificate.
It is clarified that facility of making digitally signed certificate is made available to the dealers to whom registration certificates have been granted on or after 22nd December 2015.
It may be noted that the registration officer shall continue to send the physical copy of (TIN) registration certificate to the applicant on the address mentioned in the application through India Post.
This circular cannot be made use for legal interpretation of provisions of law as it is clarificatory in nature. If any member of the trade has any doubt, the same may be referred to this office for further clarification.
You are requested to bring the contents of this circular to the notice of the members of your association.
Sd/-
(Rajiv Jalota)
Commissioner of Sales Tax,
Maharashtra State, Mumbai.
No. ACST VAT-2/Digitally Signed Registration Certificate/2015/
Trade Circular No. r 9 T of 2015 Mumbai. Dated: 21/12/2015
- A) Copy forwarded to the Joint Commissioner of Sales Tax (Mahavikas) with a request to upload this Trade Circular on departmental web site.
- B) Copy forwarded with compliments to: –
- a) The Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Mumbai.
- b) Deputy Secretary, Finance Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai.
- c) Accounts Officer, STRA, Mumbai and Nagpur.
Sd/-
(L.K.GIRI)
Addl. Commissioner of Sales Tax,
(VAT-2), Mumbai
If a proprietorship firm has submitted their CST/VAT/TIN. If the name of the entity as mentioned in the TIN is ‘XYZ Enterprises’ while “ABC Associates” is mentioned as a separate line of business under the same TIN, will that qualify as a valid entity proof of ABC Associates? In the above case, the proprietor for both the firms is the same.