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GST Enrolment Process for Existing Central Excise & Service Tax Assessee

Updated on: Feb 8th, 2023

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All existing Central Excise and Service Tax assessees will be migrated to GST starting 9th January for manufacturing units and 30th April 2017 for Service Providers. To migrate to GST, assessees would be provided a Provisional ID and Password by CBEC. Provisional IDs would be issued to only those assessees who have a valid PAN associated with their registration.

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An assessee may not be provided a Provisional ID in the following cases:

a. The PAN associated with the registration is not valid

b. The PAN is registered with State a Tax authority and Provisional ID has been supplied by the said State Tax authority.

c. There are multiple CE/ST registrations on the same PAN in a State. In this case only 1 Provisional ID would be issued for the 1st registration in the alphabetical order provided any of the above 2 conditions are not met.

The assessees need to use this Provisional ID and Password to login to the GST Common Portal (https://www.gst.gov.in) where they would be required to fill and submit the Form 20 along with necessary supporting documents. Subsequent pages provide the Steps to be followed by each assessee to migrate to GST.

Step 1: Logon to ACES portal using the existing ACES User ID and Password

Enrollment for GST_Login
Enrollment for GST_Login

Step 2: Either follow the link to obtain the Provisional ID and Password OR navigate using the Menu Follow this Link Use this Menu to obtain Provisional ID Step

Enrollment for GST_ID
Enrollment for GST_ID
Enrollment for GST_Provisional ID
Enrollment for GST_Provisional ID

Step3: Make a note of the Provisional ID and password that is provided. In case a Provisional ID is not provided, please refer the Next Step section.

Enrollment for GST For Service Providers
Enrollment for GST For Service Providers

Once you have obtained the Provisional ID and Password, login to the GST Common Portal (https://www.gst.gov.in) using this ID and Password.

Follow ClearTax guide for a detailed flow on enrollment, click here. Source: CBEC

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