Bengaluru: Most of GST woes on filing tax returns will be resolved by Oct - Sushil Kumar Modi


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Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Sep 16: The Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to look into the technical issues faced by Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) headed by Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi is hopeful of resolving 80 % of the problems in filing tax returns by October 30.

The GoM held its first meeting in Bengaluru on Saturday and discussed at length technical issues faced by GSTN with top executives of the IT major Infosys that has developed and built the IT system for new tax regime.

The Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister, who chaired a meeting that lasted for nearly two hours, told reporters after the meeting that efforts were being made to solve 80 % of glitches in GSTN by October 30.

It was decided that GoM would hold meeting every 15 days and the next meeting would be held again in Bengaluru in the beginning of October.

The meeting assumed significance since GSTN, the information technology (IT) backbone and portal for real-time taxpayer registration, migration, and tax return filing under GST, had run into a technical snag. GSTN is the biggest network in the world.

Under the one tax system, taxes of 36 departments have to be paid in one system.

"All decisions taken today, time line and implementation of problems will be discussed again in the next meeting. We are moving in unchartered territory. So, there are a few glitches initially," said Modi, who attended almost all tax related meetings during 2007-13.

He was the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar when the Value Added Tax was implemented in 2005.

Nearly 80 officials of commercial tax department of different states held marathon meetings on Friday with all stakeholders such as dealers, tax consultants and software experts to understand numerous challenges faced by them.

Nearly 85 lakh dealers, including migration of 62.25 lakh dealers under VAT, have registered under the GST.
Filing of returns on the last days of the month had caused technical glitches.

A total of 23.18 lakh new dealers have registered under GST.

Modi appealed to dealers to file their tax returns in advance to avoid last minute rush.

"Owing to to huge rush of GSTR-3B return filing on the penultimate date of the month, the GSTN software witnessed glitches," he said.

He pointed out that though there only five days left (including today) for filing returns for August, only 3.05 lakh dealers had filed their 3B returns as against the 46 lakh dealers who filed their returns in July.

Karnataka Agriculture Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac, Telangana Finance Minister Etela Rajender, Union Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia, GSTN Chairman Ajay Bhushan Pandey and GSTN CEO Prakash Kumar attended the meeting.

 

  

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Sep 17 2017

    Very few people pay GST.
    In spite of this their server hangs ...

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  • RUDOLPH, MANGALORE

    Sat, Sep 16 2017

    GST IS DISASTER. MODI / JAITLY GOVT NOT QUALIFIED TO IMPLEMENT THE SAME.

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  • Nithya, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 16 2017

    Infosys team along with GST officials must have sat with laymen businessmen before readying the software.

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  • ibrahim, ksa/yanbu

    Sat, Sep 16 2017

    All Bogus Statistics from BJP as they failed in implementing GST as a standard rules

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Sep 16 2017

    I get angry when Chai Wala's start teaching us GST ...

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  • Eric Coelho, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 16 2017

    BJP introduced GST with a Glittering ceremony in the parliament without any preparation by an Uneducated Fake Degree holder PM Modi. Now see without proper preparation look at the mess we have landed in. A fool from Bihar comes to Bangalore to convince the country and the world that the woes will be solved. This same SKM has no IT industry in Bihar and he has come to solve the GST problem from Bangalore. Go back to Bihar you guys have lead the country to a economy mess. It is time that Manmohan Singh comes back for another 18 months to revive the economy.

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  • rolf, Dubai

    Sun, Sep 17 2017

    Dear Eric. Don't underestimate our bakth people. New research shows that people having cow dung brain is capable of handling GST drinking cow urine will eliminate various in brain.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Sep 16 2017

    Without business how can we pay GST ...

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