Tax practitioners from Gujarat requested the State and the Central Governments to further extend the due date for filing annual returns under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime.
According to them, it is not possible to file GSTR-9, the annual return of GST within the set deadline of June 30 and so the deadline for filing the return should be extended.
There are close to 6.7 lakh registered traders in Gujarat, of which only a handful of them have filed returns and the rest are not able to file returns because the auto-computation leads to erroneous entries, leading to over taxation of the dealers.
The letter sent by the Gujarat Sales Tax Bar Association to the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and as well as to authorities of Central GST (CGST) and State GST (SGST), said that the utility for filing of the return was available just about a month ago and it is not possible for the businessmen or the tax practitioners to get used to it.
GSTBA president Urvish Patel told DNA that the annual returns get feeds from previous returns filed by the buyer and the seller. If there is mismatch, there will be error in filing of returns. “Businesses are concerned. They will end up paying much more tax than what they are required to. There is no provision to rectify or revise the return filed. There is an unfair provision that a businessmen are not able to claim the Input Tax Credit (ITC), which they did not claim on earlier occasion, but there is a provision of paying tax if the credit has been falsely claimed earlier,” said Patel.
Further, dealers from Amritsar also asked for a relief on annual return due date. Under the annual return, one has to fill GSTR form nine, nine-A and nine-C.
