Ludhiana: Even six months after its launch the GSTN (Goods and services tax network) portal is giving nightmare to tax professionals and the business community. The technical glitches coupled with the slow processing on the portal are making matters worse for the stakeholders who are demanding that the government revamps its system at the earliest or introduce offline return filing facility so that the load on the portal is reduced.
Speaking to TOI, Mohinder Aggarwal, state secretary of Punjab Pradesh Beopar Mandal (PPBM) said, "On one hand, the government is pressing upon the business community to abide by the rules and regulations of GST but on the other hand it has totally failed to make the system of GST return filing smooth and user friendly for us. One of the biggest flaws of the GSTN portal is that ever since July 2017, the facility of getting print out of return 3-B has not started. The system is so slow on this portal that till now only 63 % of the tax payers have been able to file their returns as the server problem is so frequent that it takes hours and sometimes days for assesses to file their return on this portal." And he added, "Moreover the GSTR-2 filing facility has not been started yet on the portal which has increased the risk of bogus billing by large."
According to Sunil Mehra, general secretary of PPBM, Compliance of GST especially the return uploading and filing has become a great headache for us. As the number of users is increasing day by day on the GSTN portal the system is becoming more and more prone to technical problems due to large traffic flow, due to which we are paying heavy price as we are being levied penalties for late filing of returns. Therefore we request the government that either all the technical problems being faced by us on the GSTN portal should be over come at the earliest or it starts the system of offline return filing which is far less complicated than the online system.
Speaking to TOI, Mohinder Aggarwal, state secretary of Punjab Pradesh Beopar Mandal (PPBM) said, "On one hand, the government is pressing upon the business community to abide by the rules and regulations of GST but on the other hand it has totally failed to make the system of GST return filing smooth and user friendly for us. One of the biggest flaws of the GSTN portal is that ever since July 2017, the facility of getting print out of return 3-B has not started. The system is so slow on this portal that till now only 63 % of the tax payers have been able to file their returns as the server problem is so frequent that it takes hours and sometimes days for assesses to file their return on this portal." And he added, "Moreover the GSTR-2 filing facility has not been started yet on the portal which has increased the risk of bogus billing by large."
According to Sunil Mehra, general secretary of PPBM, Compliance of GST especially the return uploading and filing has become a great headache for us. As the number of users is increasing day by day on the GSTN portal the system is becoming more and more prone to technical problems due to large traffic flow, due to which we are paying heavy price as we are being levied penalties for late filing of returns. Therefore we request the government that either all the technical problems being faced by us on the GSTN portal should be over come at the earliest or it starts the system of offline return filing which is far less complicated than the online system.
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