New Delhi Aug 19 (IANS) Traders across the country faced problems on Saturday as the Goods and Services Tax (GST) filing website stopped functioning for some time a day ahead of the last date for filing GST returns.
"The GST site has been working intermittently since 12 noon. It is creating a lot of confusion among traders. Many of our clients have called up saying they can t file returns. If this continues the government might need to extend the last date of filing by another couple of days at least " Prateek Jain chairman Assocham Special Task Force on GST told IANS.
The last date for filing GSTR-3B form for July is August 20 which is a summary return of details of outward supplies inward supplies credit and payment of GST.
A notice on the GST site however stated: "The services will not be available from August 19 2 p.m. to 2.45 p.m. Do come back later."
The summary return for the month of August is to be filed by September 20.
Apart from GSTR 3B three forms -- GSTR 1 GSTR 2 and GSTR 3 -- need to be filed every month. For the month of July the three forms will have to be filed between September 1 and 5 September 6 and 10 and September 11 and 15 respectively.
Form GSTR 1 would reflect sales of a business GSTR 2 would reflect purchases and GSTR 3 is a combination of sales and purchases.
For the month of August the three forms will have to be filed between September 16-20 September 21-25 and September 26-30 respectively.
The date of filing returns for the month of July was earlier extended by the GST Council by a month.
--IANS
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