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Business News/ Industry / Banking/  22 lakh GST returns filed till 6 pm Wednesday on GSTN portal
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22 lakh GST returns filed till 6 pm Wednesday on GSTN portal

GSTN has handled over 80,000 GST return filings per hour on Wednesday, the last day for GSTR-3B filing for August

Over 21.83 lakh GST returns were filed on the GSTN portal till 6pm Wednesday. GST return filing would continue till midnight. Photo: MintPremium
Over 21.83 lakh GST returns were filed on the GSTN portal till 6pm Wednesday. GST return filing would continue till midnight. Photo: Mint

New Delhi: Nearly 22 lakh GST returns for August were filed as of 6pm Wednesday, as businesses flocked the GSTN portal to submit their returns on the last day for tax filing.

Over 21.83 lakh returns were filed till 6pm, a person aware of the development said. GST return filing would continue till midnight.

This is the second month of return filing under the goods and services tax (GST) regime and similar to last month, businesses thronged the GST Network portal on the last day to pay taxes. Nearly 45 lakh businesses had filed GST returns in July fetching a revenue of Rs95,000 crore to the exchequer.

Earlier of Wednesday, finance minister Arun Jaitley said that GSTN has the capacity to handle 1 lakh returns per hour, which translates to 24 lakh returns in a day, but if majority of taxpayers decide to pay taxes on the last day then the system would have some trouble. “Therefore, I would appeal to everybody, it is in their interest (to file GST returns early)," Jaitley said.

To ease compliance burden, the GST Council has allowed businesses to file their initial tax returns in form GSTR-3B in the first six months of GST rollout till December. Accordingly, the GSTR-3B returns would have to be filed by the 20th of the next month, which means August returns need to be uploaded by 20 September.

The GSTN had faced glitches during the GSTR-3B filing for July, which had forced the government to extend the due date for filing of returns. However, for August GSTR-3B return filing, GSTN has handled over 80,000 returns per hour on Wednesday.

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Published: 20 Sep 2017, 10:52 PM IST
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