Download/ Upload Return Filing Method
E-FILING
OF
RETURN
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VAT
USER
MANUAL
National Informatics Centre, WBSC
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User Manual for eFiling of Return for VAT (ver. 2.2)
Download/ Upload Return Filing Method
Online Filing of Returns
Thanks for accessing the website of the Directorate of Commercial Taxes,
West Bengal.
Now the dealers registered under the West Bengal Value Added Tax Act,
2003 can file their VAT returns ONLINE through a secured facility provided on this website. However, initially this facility is available only to the Registered
Dealers who have been selected for the purpose. Letters have been issued / will be issued individually to all such selected dealers intimating such selection. Charge-wise lists of the selected dealers have also been displayed in this website in phases.
To file returns on-line, a selected dealer is required to deposit his tax within the time frame prescribed under the Act/ Rules in the usual method or by way of on-line payment electronically which system has been introduced from May 2008 through the State Bank of India, the Central Bank of India and certain other nationalized Banks.
Finally all dealers eligible to file electronic returns will have to obtain
Digital Signature from the competent certifying authority. However, initially since Digital Signatures are not readily available, the selected dealers can submit online returns without Digital Signature. In such case, the dealers will be required to send a follow-up Signed Copy of the return. The dealer need not put in efforts again for preparing a signed copy. He may just take a print out of the online return, append his signature on it and simply mail the same to the concerned Assessing Authority.
As soon as the dealer’s signed copy is received in the Corporate Division /
Charge Office, the Commercial Taxes Directorate will validate the relevant
record