The difficulty of technical glitches on the authorities’s tax portals has resurfaced, placing service supplier Infosys on the spot.
With snags within the items and companies tax community (GSTN), the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) on Tuesday directed the IT firm to seek out an “early resolution”. Also, the board stated it was contemplating extending the due date for GST returns submitting for April, a transfer that would hit the federal government’s tax receipts for the month.
“Considering the difficulties faced by taxpayers in filing their GSTR-3B for the month of April 2022, a proposal to extend the due date of filing GSTR-3B for April 2022 is under active consideration. Inconvenience caused to the taxpayers is regretted,” the CBIC tweeted.
“A technical glitch has been reported by @Infosys_GSTN in generation of April 22 GSTR-2B & auto-population of GSTR-3B on portal… Technical team is working to provide GSTR-2B &correct auto-populated GSTR-3B at the earliest,” the board added.
Form GSTR-2B is a system-generated assertion reflecting enter tax credit score (ITC) particulars. Form GSTR-3B is a simplified month-to-month abstract return and the aim of the return is for taxpayers to declare their abstract GST liabilities for a selected tax interval and discharge these liabilities.
Reconciliation of GSTR-2A (real-time replace of ITC) and GSTR-2B (ITC assertion for the month) with GSTR-3B is required to keep away from notices attributable to extra enter tax credit score (ITC) claims in GSTR-3B.
On Sunday, GSTN had issued an advisory saying that in a couple of circumstances, sure information usually are not mirrored within the GSTR-2B assertion for the interval of April 2022, and requested taxpayers to file GSTR-3B returns on a self-assessment foundation utilizing GSTR-2A. This advisory was quietly faraway from the GSTN web site on Tuesday.
Chartered accountants have been complaining about their incapacity to entry the GSTN portal and file tax-related paperwork earlier than the deadline.
Before the due date for submitting GSTR3B in January 2021, taxpayers and professionals needed to wrestle to file returns with the GSTN portal. In December 2020, submitting of returns within the MCA21 was affected attributable to glitches.
In 2015, Infosys was awarded a Rs 1,380-crore contract to construct and preserve the GSTN. In reality, Infosys can be the seller for 2 different key authorities portals — earnings tax e-filing portal and MCA21 of company affairs ministry – which have additionally tormented by technical glitches infrequently.
“Dear Taxpayers, we have again received complaints of denial of access to the portal and are working to resolve it. Inconvenience caused is regretted,” Team Infosys-GSTN had tweeted on January 21, 2021.
With technical issues affecting taxpayer companies eight days after the launch of latest earnings tax e-filing portal in June, senior finance ministry officers shall be holding an interactive assembly on June 22 with vendor Infosys officers on the glitches. But, the glitches endured.
“The Finance Minister demanded that the issues faced by taxpayers on current functionalities of the portal should be resolved by the team by 15th September, 2021 so that taxpayers and professionals can work seamlessly on the portal,” the finance ministry stated in a press release on August 23, 2021.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”