- GST officers are working on a mechanism for shared warehouses used by e-commerce suppliers
- Suppliers can store goods at a common warehouse under GST law
- Multiple suppliers geo-tagging the same warehouse can raise concerns about fraudulent registration
- The issue of registration for shared warehouses was discussed between Central and state GST officers
- The law committee will discuss the shared workplace concept for e-commerce warehouses
- Geo-tagging has been implemented to pinpoint the exact locations of registered taxpayers
- There is a need for a mechanism to separately identify warehouses and avoid conflating tax payment scores with suppliers
- A refined tax system should enable accurate risk assessments and minimize unwarranted harassment
Source: a2ztaxcorp.com
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