Businesses and tax experts still face problems in returns on GSTN

Praveen Khandelwal, secretary general of the CAIT, said at least half of all taxpayers could not file their returns due to glitches in the GST portal

Businesses and tax experts continue to complain about problems faced in supply returns under the goods and services tax (GST) on the GST Network portal. The government refused to give another extension for the deadline on this, over on Wednesday. 

Pratik Jain, partner at consultancy PwC India, said, “We could not submit all the returns for our clients due to challenges faced on the portal. In many cases, either the data was not getting saved and where the data was saved earlier, the return could not get submitted.”

Earlier, the GST Council had postponed the filing of supply returns, called GSTR1. These