Mumbai: On the first day of goods and services tax (GST), large and small restaurant chains and cafes struggled to produce correctly printed bills for their customers mentioning GST and the GST registration number. International coffee chain Starbucks India provided hand-written bills with the GST amount that contains the company’s GST number. More From Livemint »Similarly, a McDonald’s outlet in Mumbai had trouble printing out bills with complete alignment. Meanwhile, orders from restaurant aggregators like Zomato do not generate online invoices with GST amounts, simply stating the amount as ‘taxes’. The government also released certain APIs only in June, said Anita Rastogi, indirect tax partner at KPMG.

Source: Mint July 02, 2017 06:56 UTC