Infosys launch solution for GST regime

Bengaluru, June 20: Infosys veterans on Tuesday launched GSTSTAR, a comprehensive solution catering to Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime needs of businesses, professionals, and large organizations.

"It caters to the GST needs of small and big enterprises. The minimum fee will be Rs 500 and maximum Rs 40 lakh per month based on the size of the organization," GSTSTAR co-founder Shailesh Agrawal told reporters here.

Based out of Bengaluru and founded by Infosys veterans Agrawal and Balaji G.S. Rao, GSTSTAR offers products and services for GST compliance and will help business transition to GST era smoothly.

"The company is backed with seed funding of $1 million (Rs 6.4 crore) by software industry leaders and ex-Infosys directors T.V. Mohandas Pai and V. Balakrishnan, among others," Agrawal said.

He said the major chunk of the Rs 6.4 crore seed fund was received last month while Rs 2.50 lakh was received in 2014.

"The major chunk of the investment is from Pai and Balakrishnan," Agrawal said.

With the GST regime coming into effect from July 1, the existing 80 lakh taxpayer entities that are under the tax umbrella are expected to grow to 3.5 crores.

"We expect to capture 10 per cent of Rs 3,600 crore market in the country by next year," he said.

The GSTSTAR solution is offered both as a standard cloud-based self-subscription version and full-scale enterprise version.

"The GST is bound to grow the GDP alongside enhancing the ease of doing business in India and GSTSTAR is poised to help not only big companies but small and mid-size businesses steer into GST era seamlessly," GSTSAT investor mentor V. Balakrishnan said.

Services and utilities of GSTSTAR are designed to provide businesses with Invoice management, tax calculator, harmonized system of Nomenclature (HSN), service account code (SAC) lookup and goods and services taxpayer identification number (GSTIN) collector utility to ease the compliance processes of enterprises.

"This solution is one technology that various industries can rely upon as it is simple, reliable and provides services to help businesses of all sizes," GSTSTAR Co-founder Balaji G.S. Rao said.