Interactive meeting on First International Cultural Jamboree at Moodabidri from December 21st to December 27th, 2022 with Shri D. Vedavyas Kamath, MLA, Mangaluru South was jointly organized by KCCI and KIA at the Meeting Hall of KCCI on Friday 16th December 2022. MLA, Shri D. Vedavyas Kamath addressed the gathering and invited all the members with their families for the event and also appealed the members to donate by cash or kind for the event. B. Nagraj Shetty, Ex- Minister, GoK also addressed the members and sought generous sponsorship.

KCCI in association with the Office of Commissioner of Central Excise and Central Tax (CE & CT) (GST), Mangaluru, organized an interactive session on Recent Changes in GST Laws, Issues of Refunds under GST, and E-invoice Compliance on 7th December 2022 at the Meeting Hall of KCCI. The Chief Guest for this event was Shri Imamuddin Ahmad I.R.S., Commissioner of CE&CT (GST), Mangaluru. CA Keshava Ballakuraya apprised the audience about the importance of the topics. Shri Sooryanarayana Rao, Superintendent of Central Tax, Bunder & Pandeshwar Range of Mangaluru South Division spoke on the topic, ‘Recent Changes in GST Laws’, Shri K. Ganesh Hegde, Superintendent of Central Tax (Technical III), Udupi Division, addressed the audience on Issues of refunds under GST, CA Sabana from M/s. Ballakuraya & Associates, Chartered Accountants, Mangaluru spoke on E-invoice compliance.

KCCI organized a Felicitation & Interactive Session with the Hon’ble Mayor, Shri Jayananda Anchan, Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) who was the Chief Guest, at the Meeting Hall of KCCI on 3rd November, 2022. The Guests of Honour on the occasion were Smt. Poornima M., Hon’ble Dy. Mayor, MCC, Shri Premananda Shetty, Former Mayor, MCC, Shri Abdul Lateef, Corporator, Bunder Ward, MCC.

A Workshop on GST Departmental Audit and Annual Return was organized on Friday, 16th September 2022 at the KCCI Meeting Hall, Bunder, Mangaluru. Ms. Meera Pandit, Joint Commissioner, Commercial Tax, Mangaluru was the Chief Guest who addressed the audience. Other speakers were CA Coline O. Rodrigues who spoke on the topic, ‘GST Audit notices and how to respond to such notices’ and CA Vikas Shenoy on the topic, ‘Filing of Form 9 under GST – its importance and implications’.

A seminar on ‘Cyber Security – to prevent yourself and your business from cyber criminals and the bad hackers’, addressed by Shri Robinson D’Souza, Cyber Security Expert, was organised by KCCI at the KCCI Meeting Hall on Wednesday 10th August 2022.

KCCI organized a seminar on ‘Decisions of the 47th GST Council Meeting and other relevant issues’ at the Meeting Hall of KCCI on 27th July 2022, Wednesday. Smt. Hemalatha, Asst. Commissioner, SGSTO – 260 and CA Vikas Shenoy from Mangaluru addressed the seminar.