GST is an organisation-wide transformational change that will impact the entire value chain of operations, including procurement, manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, sales, and pricing.
It is a destination-based tax that should replace the current Central taxes and duties such as Excise Duty, Service Tax, Counter Vailing Duty (CVD), Special Additional Duty of Customs (SAD), central charges and cesses and local state taxes, i.e., Value Added Tax (VAT), Central Sales Tax (CST), Octroi, Entry Tax, Purchase Tax, Luxury Tax, Taxes on lottery, betting and gambling, state cesses and surcharges and Entertainment tax (other than the tax levied by the local bodies).
To support the new regulation, Microsoft is releasing India GST hotfix patch to update Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, AX2012 R2 and AX AX2009 SP1 to support business processes with new GST regulations. As the final GST law and law enforcement date is yet to be announced by the Government, the new updates to AX 2012 R3, AX 2012 R2 and AX2009 SP1 are based on draft Model GST law updated through April 2017 (For more information about the law, visit www.cbec.gov.in). To help you understand the GST specific changes in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) tax framework, Microsoft is releasing India GST package for AX 2012 R2, AX 2012 R3 and AX 2009 SP1.