In this article, issues related to the service tax login will be discussed and solved with details about the proper steps. A process by the name of Enrolment has been established which migrates a tax payer, who is already existing and registered into the Entertainment Tax, Luxury Tax, Entry Tax, VAT, Service Tax or Central Excise to that of the new GST Platform.
By enrolling into the GST means that it validates the date of the tax payer. Already existing, from the legacy system. Moreover, the service tax login is also useful because it updates the rest of the main information following the new system introduced by GST through the tax payer in order to take preparation for the implementation of the regime of GST in India. However, it has been observed that sometimes problems may arise which hampers in the generation or action of the Provision ID of the new GST regime. The following passages details about these issues and provides a solution.
Enrollment in GST with the Use of Provisional ID
The tax payer who already own registration in the fields of Entertainment Tax, Luxury Tax, Entry Tax, VAT, Service Tax or Central Excise has to finish the process of enrolment into GST scheme by the use of a Provisional ID which has been provided by the departments of the tax respectively. The tax payers who fall in the above categories are required to perform the service tax login through the portal of the GST, since it compulsory to comply by the regulations of the new GST scheme through the filing of the GST payment, GST return and so one.
In order to login into the service tax according to GST, the following data has to be provided by the company.
- Provisional ID which is received from the State or the Central Authorities
- Password that is received from the State or the Central Authorities
- Valid E-mail Address
- Valid Mobile Number
- Bank Account Number
- Bank IFSC
Along with the information mentioned above, it is better to provide the documents as follows, too.
- Proof of the Business Incorporation or the Registration or the Constitution in the format of PDF or in the format of JPEG which has to be of less than 1 megabyte size
- Deed of Partnership for Partnership Firms
- Certificate of Incorporation for the LLP or the Private Limited Company or the One Person Company or the Limited Company and the other types of the Companies.
- Certificate of Registration from the respective Authorities for the other types of the entities.
- Photograph of the Promoters or the Partners or the Karta or the HUF
- Proof of the Appointment of an Authorized Signatory
- Photograph of the Authorized Signatory
- Opening page of the Bank Passbook or the Statement with the number of the Bank Account, the Address, the Branch and the Few Transaction.
The existing payer of tax can perform the service tax logic from the GST portal with the above given information.
Provisional ID of the GST not generated
So far the process of service tax login into the new GST has been quite the success. More than 8.3 million of companies have already shifted into the platform of the GST within the 30th of April, 2017 as following:
| Sr. No. | State | Start Date | Number of Taxpayers with validated PAN | User activated till date | Percentage of User Activated |
| 1 | Andhra Pradesh | 1/1/2017 | 229,493 | 203,330 | 88.60% |
| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh | 11/30/2016 | 5,476 | 1,539 | 28.10% |
| 3 | Assam | 11/30/2016 | 206,034 | 57,532 | 27.92% |
| 4 | Bihar | 11/30/2016 | 194,495 | 115,338 | 59.30% |
| 5 | Chandigarh | 12/16/2016 | 16,305 | 14,844 | 91.04% |
| 6 | Chhattisgarh | 11/14/2016 | 109,055 | 91,010 | 83.45% |
| 7 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 11/14/2016 | 4,389 | 3,031 | 69.06% |
| 8 | Daman and Diu | 11/14/2016 | 4,803 | 3,349 | 69.73% |
| 9 | Delhi | 12/16/2016 | 393,200 | 268,761 | 68.35% |
| 10 | Goa | 11/14/2016 | 25,016 | 15,742 | 62.93% |
| 11 | Gujarat | 11/15/2016 | 499,823 | 450,729 | 90.18% |
| 12 | Haryana | 12/16/2016 | 242,527 | 172,709 | 71.21% |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 12/16/2016 | 66,165 | 34,056 | 51.47% |
| 14 | Jammu & Kashmir | 12/16/2016 | 58,208 | 2,866 | 4.92% |
| 15 | Jharkhand | 11/30/2016 | 92,627 | 57,344 | 61.91% |
| 16 | Karnataka | 1/1/2017 | 550,489 | 513,426 | 93.27% |
| 17 | Kerala | 1/1/2017 | 263,424 | 183,014 | 69.48% |
| 18 | Madhya Pradesh | 11/30/2016 | 301,997 | 251,988 | 83.44% |
| 19 | Maharashtra | 11/14/2016 | 803,261 | 705,235 | 87.80% |
| 20 | Manipur | 11/30/2016 | 3,940 | 1,789 | 45.41% |
| 21 | Meghalaya | 11/30/2016 | 24,296 | 4,711 | 19.39% |
| 22 | Mizoram | 11/30/2016 | 2,313 | 868 | 37.53% |
| 23 | Nagaland | 11/30/2016 | 4,847 | 2,829 | 58.37% |
| 24 | Odisha | 11/30/2016 | 175,463 | 89,870 | 51.22% |
| 25 | Puducherry | 11/8/2016 | 16,450 | 12,841 | 78.06% |
| 26 | Punjab | 12/16/2016 | 229,541 | 187,113 | 81.52% |
| 27 | Rajasthan | 12/16/2016 | 564,625 | 435,382 | 77.11% |
| 28 | Sikkim | 11/8/2016 | 3,119 | 1,952 | 62.58% |
| 29 | Tamilnadu | 1/1/2017 | 630,251 | 550,148 | 87.29% |
| 30 | Telangana | 1/1/2017 | 209,863 | 163,978 | 78.14% |
| 31 | Tripura | 11/30/2016 | 16,630 | 7,785 | 46.81% |
| 32 | Uttar Pradesh | 12/16/2016 | 812,129 | 596,283 | 73.42% |
| 33 | Uttarakhand | 12/16/2016 | 104,255 | 77,491 | 74.33% |
| 34 | West Bengal | 11/30/2016 | 273,823 | 210,228 | 76.78% |
| Total for State VAT Users | 7,138,332 | 5,489,111 | 76.90% | ||
| 35 | Taxpayers who are registered into the Central Excise Act but not registered into the State VAT | 1/7/2017 | 55,830 | 14,486 | 25.95% |
| 36 | Taxpayers who are registered into the Service Tax Act but not registered under State VAT | 1/20/2017 | 1,156,337 | 546,580 | 47.27% |
| Total for CBEC Users | 1,212,167 | 561,066 | 46.29% | ||
| Grand Total | 8,350,499 | 6,050,177 | 72.45% |
Sometimes, there might be problems generating the GST provisional ID for your business even if you possess an existing registration of tax into the Entertainment Tax, Luxury Tax, Entry Tax, VAT, Service Tax or Central Excise. In that case, you will have to contact the respective officer of the department of tax.
The flowchart given below describes the steps involved in issuing the provisional ID if somehow it is not generated.
Provisional ID of the GST not working
If the provisional ID does not work after the service tax login, then the following steps can be followed to solve the trouble-shooting.
First you have to check if a provisional ID has been issued in your PAN through the tool called the Check Registration Status on the portal of GST. If the GST-issued provisional ID do not work at the time of the process of enrolment, then there is a possibility that the ID may have been inactive, cancelled or just expired. With the help of the Check Registration Status item, the following status can be checked.
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Provisional
This explains that the GST Provisional ID has been issued but the application given for the enrolment of the existing tax payer has not been filed after the attachment of the digitalized signatures.
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Pending for Verification
This explains that the application has been given in properly but the process of validation through the system including the external agencies is still pending. Once the verification has been done, the status will get updated.
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Validation against Error
This indicates that the details written in the PAN do not match with the ones available in the database of the CBDT. So it is important that you fill in the details which match the information written in the PAN card and submit the form again.
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Migrated
This indicated that the application for the service tax login has been successfully shifted into the GST portal. After this, no alterations can be performed on the application anymore. The certificate for the Provisional Registration will be found at the portal after the given due date (that is, the date starting from which the GST Act will be begin performing).
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Cancelled
This explains that if the existing registration gets cancelled, the application for the Provisional ID will remain cancelled as well. This also means that the initially the ID may have been generated as well as issued but then got cancelled. The plausible reason can be that the existing registration got cancelled due to the mention of incorrect information. To solve this issue, it is best to contact the Department of Tax of the respective tax and the reasons out.
Provisional Email ID and the Password of the GST not working
If any mismatch occurs between the email of the Provisional ID and the password, then you can follow the steps given below in the image to solve the error.
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