GST system working fine, says GSTN

New Delhi, Nov 21 (KNN) The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), the private firm which provides shared IT infrastructure and services to state and Central government has clarified that the return filing system is working fine.

The clarification comes a day after complaints made on the social media regarding the GSTN system not functioning.

"Certain complaints made yesterday on the social media regarding GSTN system not functioning are incorrect," GSTN said in a statement on Wednesday.

Referring to complaints, GSTN said the GST return filing system has been working as expected and a total of 55.79 lakh returns were filed as of 4pm on Wednesday.

The site has a maximum load threshold of 1.5 lakh returns filing at a particular moment. If this threshold is reached then the site shows a message asking the taxpayer to wait for his turn in a few minutes, it claimed in the statement.

GSTN also requested the taxpayers that they should not wait till the last three days to file their returns as normally there may be a huge rush of return filing on these days. Rather they should file their return on days other than the last three days to avoid rush hour momentary difficulty in the filing.

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