Looks like Amazon India will start suspending seller accounts if they haven't yet updated their Goods and Services Tax Identification Number (GSTIN). (Hat-tip: Shashikant Kore) It's not clear if sellers have been given a specific deadline to update GSTIN or not. We've written to Amazon to confirm if there is a deadline, and will update when we hear back from them. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) went live on July 1. Now every online vendor has to register for it and obtain a statewise Permanent Account Number (PAN) based 15-digit GSTIN, for the purpose of paying tax. This needs to be updated with every e-commerce marketplace they sell on, because the marketplaces in turn have been mandated to collect up to 1% tax on all sales made by online sellers on their respective platforms, under Section 52 of the Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017. Note that last month, the government had temporarily put on hold the implementation of Section 52, saying that the decision was made based on “the feedback received from the trade and industry.” The government also said that the date when this will be enforced will be communicated later, but didn’t provide an indication regarding when that might be. However, what is interesting here is that in the same notification, the government had also mentioned that online sellers will not have to register immediately for GST, at least not “till the provision of Tax Collection at Source is brought under force,” except those that are “liable under Section 22 or any other category…
