Dear Members/ Readers, On behalf of entire editorial team, we wish you all, 75th Anniversary of THE GOODS AND SERVICE TAX PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION OF MAHARASHTRA a Platinum Jubilee Year. It is really a proud moment for all of us that our Association has entered in to 75th Year. The Centre’s new fast-track goods and services tax (GST) registration scheme, rolled out from November 1, has resulted in a sharp spike in automatic approvals, with 142,000 applications being cleared electronically in the first 15 days of the month. These account for more than two-thirds of all registrations issued during the period. As per the Information overall, over 217,000 GST registrations were granted in the first 15 days of the new regime. Nearly 66 per cent of these registrations, “those falling under the new scheme, were approved within 24 hours, with the fastest registration processed in 21 minutes. This effort is laudable. This not only wins th.......