For more than a year, India has been on the path to digitizing tax controls, with the first mandatory go-live for transmission of invoice data to a governmental portal scheduled for 1 April 2020. The very high pace of the roll-out of this reform has made many taxpayers concerned that they might not realistically be able to meet the implementation deadline, leading many to hope that the Indian authorities might instead chose to postpone the go live date.
The latest news from India on tax controls, is that it looks as if these authorities may indeed consider – or at least discuss the possibility of – a delay to the go-live date. According to The Economic Times, the Indian government is going to discuss whether there is a need to defer the implementation deadline in the next meeting of GST Council, which is scheduled for the 14th of March. So far, a 3-month deferral has been discussed, which means that should the GST Council grant a delay, the first go-live would take place in July 2020.
