CAIT to launch Nationwide Movement from Jan 1st to improve E-Commerce and GST

The Confederation of All India Traders(CAIT) has announced a massive nationwide agitation from 1st January to 31st March 2023 for streamlining e-commerce and for simplification and rationalization of the GST structure.

Praveen Khandelwal, national general secretary of the business group CAIT, said in a statement released on Sunday that the central government has failed to bring the regulations and practises of e-commerce under the Consumer Protection Act even after more than three years.

Since trade is a state concern and state governments have been mute spectators even after the loss of GST revenue at the hands of foreign e-commerce companies, not only the central government but also the state governments are to blame for this.

The empowerment of small businesses, ease of doing business, simplification of taxes, etc. have all been strongly supported by the nation’s business community for a long time, according to Khandelwal, but it is regrettable that there is no policy or regulation governing e-commerce in the nation. He said that drafts of both policy and rules of e-commerce under the Consumer Protection Act have been prepared for a long time, but due to bureaucracy those files are biting dust.

Khandelwal announced a three-month-long “Clean Indian Business” national movement in the nation’s capital. From January 1 to January 7, business organisations nationwide will launch a national e-mail campaign, under which foreign e-commerce companies will make a difference in the nation, Khandelwal said. Emails will be sent to the Central and State Governments, as well as to all political parties, requesting that they comprehend the problems and sufferings of India’s business community.

CAIT will launch nationwide movement from January 1 to improve e-commerce and GST

The Confederation of All India Traders has announced a massive nationwide agitation from 1-Jan to 31-Mar for streamlining e-commerce and for simplification and rationalization of the GST structure.

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According to him, CAIT will also seek an appointment from the BJP President JP Nadda and submit a comprehensive memorandum on this important issue to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, and Home Minister Amit Shah.

General secretary of the CAIT Stated, January 10 will be celebrated as “E-Commerce Disparity Free Trade Day” by traders across the nation. Large-scale dharnas will be held on this day by trade associations to call on the central and state governments to accept and put into practise the Traders Charter. In this series, on January 20, traders from all over the nation will go on a one-day hunger strike at more than 1000 locations, and in February, traders organisations from every state will hold rallies in their respective cities and deliver memoranda to the chief ministers and finance ministers of the states as well as the ministers of the Central Government.

State level businessmen’s conferences will be organized in all the states in March and in the first week of April, 2023, a huge three-day national businessmen’s conference will be organized in New Delhi.