Home Textile Exporters' Welfare Association (HEWA) has informed that acceding to its request, the government will introduce Faceless Assessments and Faceless Appeals scheme in the indirect tax regime and the same would come in force from September 25 onward. Amending thee-assessment scheme launched last year, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) recently notified changes to include change in nomenclature of scheme from ‘E-assessment scheme’ to ‘Faceless Assessment Scheme.’

HEWA had sought help for small and medium textiles exporters impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic by requesting the government to relax the GST tax regime. As per the association exporters are facing liquidity crunch due to delayed overseas payments and large scale migration of laborers and reduction of working hours, shortage of working space due to adherence of social distancing norms. These exporters are also not well versed with the GST tax regime and depend on tax consultants who charge hefty amount as professional fee.

The association has demanded in case of an exporter being red flagged or declared as 'risky', he must be informed by field formation the exact cause or the reason for his being red flagged.