Government of Gujarat : Value Added Tax Information System

Government of Gujarat adopted VAT from 1st April 2006 and decided to automate

entire VAT related business processes simulataneously. To digitize the entire

process, Commissionerate of Commercial Taxes, Governmrnt. of Gujarat along with

TCS started the project Value Added Information System. The project was

initiated to ensure prompt capturing of data at its origin in digitized form.

Digitization of VAT process also provided administration an in-depth analysis of

information for better decision support as well as strategizing the tax

administration processes.

With VATIS, dealers can now file their returns online. They can put online

request for acquiring statutory forms and receive the forms at their door steps.

Requests for refunds as well as amendments can be filed online. Project also

allows tax officials to take timely decisions in terms of tax administration by

providing meaningful information at all levels instantly. The system has reduced

the cost of maintaining, assembling and summarizing the information and also

reduced loss due to delay in decision making. Tax Officals can now keep a track

of performance of tax offices with respect to tax collection targets. The

Project has reduced the effort involved in the creation and submission of

various statutory notices and orders.

The VATIS framework has been developed on open standards -Java/J2EE

technologies using OOPS concepts which provides scalability, maintainability,

modularity, reusability, portability, performance, Security and Industry wide

support. It provides web based access, horizontal and vertical scalability and

SOA based hybrid architecture. TCS is providing post implementation support for

VATIS to Government of Gujarat for 3 years.