Hand Book on e-payment of Taxes Taxation Department Government of Meghalaya 1
INTRODUCTION E-payment or Electronic Payment of Tax is an additional mode of payment in addition to the conventional methods offered by the Taxation Department with SBI to Trading community. This scheme facilitates anytime, anywhere payment and an instant cyber receipt is generated once the transaction is complete. It provides the convenience of making online payment of Taxes through the e-payment portal of the Taxation department along with the Bank s Internet banking service. The e-payment facilities use the core banking/ internet banking feature of the bank along with the Information and Communication Technology tools to transfers the tax amount from the Dealer s account to the Government account. The service is simple, transparent and is accessible from anywhere. It is also ensure online transaction which is secured and safe. To facilitate e-payment, the Taxation Department, Government of Meghalaya had a tie up with NIC and the State Bank of India (SBI) which is the lead bank in Meghalaya. The process involves the integration of the e-payment portal of the department along with the online portal of the SBI. The e- payment portal has been audited by the Cyber Security Division of NIC and CyberQ, the empanelled Cyber Security Agency and the SSL Certification from NIC CA was obtained to ensure safe monetary transactions. e-payment will be made compulsory for dealers whose annual turnover is more than Rs. 20.00 Lakhs. Notification in this regards will be issued by the department in due course of time. Pre-Requisite to avail this facility For the dealer to be able to participate in the e-payment process, the following criteria must be met by the dealer: The dealer must be a REGISTERED Dealer of the Taxation Department, Govt. of Meghalaya and must have a valid TIN. The dealer must have a valid PAN issue by the Income Tax department The dealer should have an account with SBI and must have a valid internet banking facilities. The user should have Adobe Acrobat installed in his PC/Laptop to be able to print the e-receipt. Procedures to make e-payment The dealers can open the home page of the http://meghalayaonline.gov.in web site as shown and click on the e-payment of the Taxes link where a login page will be displayed, If the dealer is using the application for the first time, he/she must himself/herself register using the following steps. A. How to Register and create the User-ID and Password: 1. To create a user ID and password, the user must click on the New User link which is available in the Home page as shown below : 2
2. A new page as shown below will be displayed where the dealer has to enter some personal information which is required to create User ID and password. All the information in this page is mandatory and the users has to enter them correctly. The data that is required in this page are : TIN PAN User ID (Minimum of 8 Characters) Password (Minimum of 8 characters and should contain at least one Capital letter, one number and one special character i.e.!,@,#,$,%,^,&,* The correct date of birth of the dealer is to be entered. This is an important parameter as whenever there is a need to change the password, system will ask for the correct Date of Birth entered earlier. The dealer needs to enter the correct security Code as shown by the System. In case the Security Code is not clear the user can get another code displayed by clicking on the Try a New Code button. 3
3. After the user has entered all the relevant parameters correctly, on clicking the Submit button, the system will display the confirmation page as shown below. 4
B. How to make payment using e-payment System : 1. The user logs in to the System using the valid TIN, user ID and Password created earlier as shown below and press/click the Button 2. If the correct information is entered, the new page will be displayed where the primary information of the dealer will be shown. The dealer can make the necessary selection and enter the data as mentioned in the following steps. i. The user has to select the starting month of the quarter in which the Tax is due. ii. The user has to select the Year of the quarter where the Tax is due. iii. The System displays automatically the ending month and ending year of the quarter. iv. The user has to select the purpose for which he/she pays the taxes from the Challan Purpose combo box. The options are TAX AMOUNT, PENALTY, TAX INTEREST, COMPOSITION,SECURITY,MISC etc v. The user has to select Scheme for which the Tax is to be paid. At present there are two schemes; one is VAT and the other is CST. vi. After selecting the scheme, the user has to select the scheme code from the list for which the tax is payable. vii. After selecting the scheme code, the tax amount has to be entered by the dealer. viii. If the dealers want to make payment for another scheme code, he may continue with steps vi & vii. The total amount of the tax entered by the dealer will be calculated by the system as shown. 5
ix. After the dealer has entered the Tax amount, he/she has to select the name of the Bank in which he is having an internet banking account. At present the list is only for SBI. x. Finally if everything is entered satisfactory, the dealer will have to click on the Button. 6
3. After entering all the mandatory parameters and submitted the information to the server, the following confirmation screen will appear where the user can only view and confirm the data entered by him. 4. If everything is OK, the user clicks on the button. On doing so, the dealer will be redirected to SBI login page where he/she has login with the login credentials supplied by SBI. 7
5. After login successfully in the SBI portal, the following information will be displayed by the Bank portal to confirm about the data that was received from the Taxation portal. 8
6. To confirm the payment dealer will have to click on button. This process will deduct the Amount from the Tax-Payer s accounts and credit the same into the Govt. Account. After successful completion of transaction, the Bank should display the following e-receipt which is printable by the Tax-Payer as a proof that the payment is executed successfully. 7. From here after few seconds, page will be automatically redirected to e-payment portal with a confirmation that the transaction was conducted successfully. Bank will also sent the same data back to e-payment portal in the form of XML with the Status Flag set to Y. 8. The dealer is directed back to the e-challan portal where the e-challan Receipt as shown below will be displayed to the dealer so that he take print-out and produce in the Taxation department whenever he/she submits the quarterly Returns Statement. 9
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