With an aim to make all the Government Departments cashless and make all the Government services available in the hands of the Citizens,a MoU was signed between Government of Goa (Finance Department) and Paytm in the presence of Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant at Mantralaya Porvorim today.

Expressing his happiness over fulfilling the budget assurance of making Government department cash-free, Chief Minister informed that through this MoU, Paytm will enable Government Departments to accept Digital payments through QR code, Soundbox and Point of Sale devices and It will offer Goa the option of providing e-Government services on the Paytm Application which will be accessible to all the Paytm Users for speedy and fast online payments. Paytm will also conduct Cyber security Training of Goa Police staff as well as organize a joint campaign with Goa for spreading Cyber security awareness among citizens he added.

Chief business officer -Payments of Paytm, Shri Abhay Sharma, Vice president – Shri Ankit Goyal, Shri Saurabh Agrawal, Shri Vedant Karnani and Shri Abhinav Dubey were also present.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Department of State Tax, Government of Goa and The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) on training on technical cooperation in GST in the presence of Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant and Minister for Transport Shri Mauvin Godinho at Mantralaya, Porvorim today.

Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister said that general objective of signing the MoU is to extend the technical cooperation, capacity building, and research assistant in policy making. As a part of this MoU, ICAI will conduct regular capacity building program as per the requirement of the State’s tax department. The regular updation of  knowledge  will ensure that state tax office of the department are enhanced with the latest GST Development  and will be in a better position to  interpret the act and rules in its true sense thereby avoiding  litigation on taxation. Congratulating ICAI for signing the agreement Chief Minister said the MoU will benefit the State in the long run.

CA.Aniket Talati, President ICAI stating that ICAI is the largest accounting body in the world. He informed that they hold Tax clinics in the entire country along with income tax department. In Goa, we have tax clinic in our branch where Tax Experts are available to address queries and provide guidance on income tax return filing to the common man he informed.

Shri Sarpreet Singh Gill, IAS, Secretary Commissioner – State Taxes CA. Ranjeet Kumar Agarwal, Vice-President ICAI and other senior officials of ICAI were also present.