-B Swaminathan
Secunderabad, May 8: The Telangana government is likely to follow the Kerala model for online sites to avoid loss of revenue to the government.
Hyderabad is a great influencer as far as online sales go. Especially, in the recent days, the city of multi-culture has witnessed a significant growth in the number of online shoppers.
However, due to the bifurcation of the states, no system was in place to check the way online shopping worked. With the new government in place, the tax department has started looking for ways to avoid tax losses to the government.
Recently the Hyderabad-based IT forums had given a memorandum to the government on the way Kerala government has framed regulations on e-selling.
“The Kerala government had made a strict policy that those companies selling their products online should have registered under the Kerala Sales Tax Act. The government here is also planning to adopt the same model,” says a retailer from Hyderabad. He also added that the government had requested the sellers to send suggestions on implementing the new model in the state.
Post-bifurcation, the Telangana government has taken the first initiative on the online sale which has been on the files of the united Andhra Pradesh government.