Digital signatures to make doing biz easier

July 29, 2015 17:40

The Central Board of Excise and Customs said businesses can store documents in electronic form and allowed digitally signed invoices, a move aimed at improving ease of doing business and reducing cost of transaction.
As part of the government's initiative to facilitate trade, CBEC has been taking several steps towards ease of doing business, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.One such recent initiative has been to encourage the trade to replace paper documents required by law to be preserved with electronic documents and to use digitally signed invoices in Central Excise and Service Tax.

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