Indian businessmen faced difficulties on Saturday, when the website that files the goods and services tax (GST) stopped working one day before the last day of filing a GST return.

ASSOCHAM's chairman (Special Task Force on GST) Pratik Jain told IANS: "Since 12 noon, the GST website was intermittent. This caused a lot of confusion among traders. Many of our clients said that they could not file returns because of this disturbance. If such a disturbance continues then the government should increase the date of filing of GST returns for the next few days."

The date of filing of GSTR-3B is from July to August 20, which includes filing of traffic and credit / payment figures for goods.

"The service is not available on August 19 from 2 a.m. to 2.45 hrs, please come later" the notice said on the GST website said.

The last date for filing returns for the month of August is September 20. By the late evening on Saturday, the government has given the last date of filing the GST return to five days, by 25 August, after the hassles.

Pune's Chartered Accountant Pritam Mahure told IANS: "The taxpayer is in tension with this situation. Just two weeks ago GSTR-3B was made available for form filing. According to the expected, this would be the first GST filed by taxpayers and this week the taxpayers started filing GSTR-3B."

Jigar Doshi, partner of SKP Business Consulting, told: "If the system is sitting in file for Summary Returns, then the situation seems quite scary in the next few months because we do not know what will happen at that time, whereas taxpayers Uploading Invoice, detailed GST return will be filed.

The last date for filing a summary return for the month of August is fixed on September 20, which the government has extended on Saturday for the next 5 days.

Apart from GSTR 3B, taxpayers are required to make three forms and files, including GSTR-1, GSTR-2 and GSTR-3. For July, these three phases are to be filed between September 1 to September 5, September 6 to September 19 and September 11 to September 15.

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