The document describes a Goods and Services Tax registration form built using Java EE, JDBC, and MySQL. The registration form collects 156 inputs from applicants and stores the data in a MySQL database divided into 11 tables. Java Server Pages are used to develop the front-end form and connect it to the MySQL database using JDBC. The form is divided into 11 sub-forms and confirmation pages to make it more user-friendly. Limitations include a lack of error handling and aesthetics, with future plans to improve exceptions and the appearance of the form.

1. Goods and Services Tax Registration
Form
July 29, 2016
Wamika Bansal

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
v About the Registration Form…………………………………………………. 3
v The Methodology……………………………………………………………………. 6
• Java EE ……………….…………………………………………………………. 6
• JDBC………………………………………………………………………………….10
• MySQL Database……………………………………………………………….10
v Limitations & Future Scope….………………………………………………. 12

3. About the Registration Form
Presently, the Centre and State indirect tax
administrations work under different laws, regulations,
procedures and formats. Thus, IT systems work as
independent silos.
Goods and Services Tax
GST is a broad-based, comprehensive, single indirect tax
which will be levied concurrently on goods and services
across India. It will replace most of the Central and State
indirect taxes such as Value added Tax (VAT), Excise
Duty. Service Tax, Central Sales Tax, Additional Customs
Duty and Special Additional Duty of Customs. GST will be
levied at every stage of the production and distribution
chains by giving the benefit of Input Tax Credit (ITC) of
the tax remitted at previous stages; thereby, treating the
entire country as one market. Introduction of Goods and
Services Tax (GST) in India is perceived to be the most
ambitious initiative in the arena of indirect tax reform. It
would change the Indian tax structure and pave the way
for modernization of tax administration.

4. Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN)
Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) is a section 25
(not for profit), non-Government, private limited
company set up primarily to provide IT infrastructure,
systems and services to the Central and State
Governments, tax payers and other stakeholders for
supporting implementation of the GST in India,
hereinafter also referred as GST System.
Based on consensus amongst States/UT's and Central
government on a common GST System, GSTN has been
made responsible to build and operationalize the System
as the only national agency.
The Government of India holds 24.5% equity in GSTN and
all States of the Indian Union, including NCT of Delhi and
Puducherry, and the Empowered Committee of State
Finance Ministers (EC), together hold another 24.5%.
Balance 51% equity is with non-Government financial
institutions
The project of setting an IT infrastructure for enabling
country wide GST rollout is a unique and complex IT
initiative. It is unique as it seems. It is the first initiative
to establish a uniform interface for the tax payer and a
shared IT infrastructure between Centre and States.

5. The Registration Form for GSTN (Goods and Services Tax
Network) registers new applicants to GSTN. This service is
available only online.
The Registration module has two types of Dealers who would
be the users of the system. The two types of dealers are:
v Regular Dealers
v Compounded Dealers
This form collects about 156 inputs from the applicant and
stores in the assigned Data Base. The user has to simply enter
the information requested. The form has been fragmented into
smaller forms to make it user friendly. The modularity also helps
in better data collection.

6. The Methodology
The Registration Form uses Java EE, JDBC Driver and MySQL.
IDE’s such as Eclipse (Mars) and MySQL Workbench have been
used for Java EE and MySQL respectively.
Java EE
Java EE feature – Java Server Page (JSP) has been used to
develop the Registration Form along with Hyper Text Markup
Language (HTML). JSP is a server-side technology that is an
extension to the Java servlet technology. Whereas HTML is a
markup language for describing web documents.
HTML has been used to develop the front end forms to get user
Inputs. The HTML page sends the data entered by the user to
the JSP page linked to it (Figure 1). The JSP page connects with the
data base using JDBC driver and sends the data to the data

7. base for storage (Figure 2).
Figure 1: HTML page that interacts with the user

8. Figure 2: JSP code for Primary Information
For making the form user friendly, the form has been divided into
11 sub forms and 11 confirmation pages (Figure 3). The sub forms
are used to just submit data. After every sub form a confirmation
page follows that informs if the data entry was successful or not. In
case the data entry wasn’t successful, a ‘Refill’ option is displayed
for the user to go back and input the correct data again.
Otherwise if entry was successful, user can press ‘Next’ option to
proceed to the next form (Figure 4).

9. Figure 3: The 11 html pages and their respective 11 JSP pages
Figure 4: The confirmation page

10. JDBC
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application programming
Interface, for programming language Java, which defines how
a client may access a database. JDBC was used to connect the
JSP pages to MySQL database.
MySQL Database
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system.
The IDE MySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for the database
for comprehensive administration tools. The Database was divided
into 11 tables into the following categories:
• Primary Information
• Dates
• Registration Information
• Addresses
• Bank Information
• Commodity(s) Information
• Service(s) Information
• Additional Place(s) Information
• Personal Information
• Authorized Representative(s) Information

11. • Signatories Information
Each table is directly linked with its respective JSP form.
Below is the structure of the Database as displayed in the
MySQL Workbench.

12. Limitations & Future Scope
Following Limitations are there in the Registration Form:
• Form isn’t robust. Since there was lack of time
there is no exception handling. If user enters wrong
data, MySQL reports error.
• The form isn’t aesthetically efficient as it is just a sample.
It needs to be modified.
FUTURE SCOPE:
• The form will have efficient exceptional handling.
After user is done entering data in the sub form,
The confirmation page reports a proper error message.
• The form should be color coded and show proper symbols
In every confirmation page.