New Delhi: As many as 37 lakh GST returns for September have been filed till 7 pm on Friday and 75,000 sales data is being uploaded on the GST Network (GSTN) portal on hourly basis, its chairman Ajay Bhushan Pandey said on Friday. The deadline for filing the initial returns in GSTR-3B for September under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime ends midnight tonight.
Mr Pandey said that the GSTN system is stable and has been handling data at just 30 per cent of its capacity with 20 lakh returns being uploaded in last two days. “As many as 37 lakh returns have been filed till 7 pm. The pace of filing is picking up with an average 75,000 returns being uploaded on an hourly basis. GSTN system is stable. We hope more people are able to file return within the due date,” he said on Friday.
Mr Pandey said that in the first two months, businesses have also uploaded returns after the end of due date and the number for September returns would go up eventually. “If we see the capacity of the network, GSTN is using only 30 per cent of its capacity. So there is a lot of headroom available for the server to upload more number of returns,” Mr Pandey said. Finance minister Arun Jaitley had appealed to businesses to file GST returns before the due date.
