GSTN tweaked features, handled robust August return filing: CEO

Key highlights:

• GST Network has tweaked some of the features on its portal over the past month to make the system more robust
• It allowed glitch-free tax payment facility to nearly 35 lakh assessees, said GSTN CEO Prakash Kumar
• Of the total 87.33 lakh registered businesses on the GSTN 68 lakh were eligible to pay taxes in August

GST Network (GSTN) has tweaked some of the features on its portal over the past month to make the system more robust and allow glitch-free tax payment facility to nearly 35 lakh assessees, its CEO Prakash Kumar said today.

Of the total 87.33 lakh registered businesses on the GSTN, which manages the IT infrastructure of the new tax regime, 68 lakh were eligible to pay taxes in August.

Of the total registered taxpayers, 24.56 lakh are new registrations, while 62.77 lakh have migrated from the earlier excise, service tax and VAT regime.

Kumar said the GSTN portal has handled a humongous load of filing of 1.3 lakh tax returns filing and payment per hour on September 20 -- the last day of filing of August tax returns.

"Nearly 35 lakh people had filed returns till Saturday. We have done some tweaking in our portal and it is evident from the load GSTN handled at the time of August return filing," he told.

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