As the extended deadlines for previous months come to an end, GST Network (GSTN) saw an even bigger rise in return-filing in September.
In October, the monthly GSTR returns (GSTR-3B) saw a 36 percent rise compared to the same period a year earlier as the collections rose by more than 10 percent in the month and for the first time breached the Rs 1-lakh-crore mark in the current fiscal data, government data showed.
As the extended deadlines for previous months come to an end, GST Network (GSTN) saw an even bigger rise in return-filing in September. In September, more than 1.68 crore returns were filed, a gain of more than 88 percent from last year.
More than 1.3 crore taxpayers are registered with GST, but approximately 17 lakh are composition taxpayers who are expected to file a separate quarterly return while the remaining GSTR-3B file is provided weekly.
“It was made possible as the GST technology was modified to accommodate up to 3 lakh of concurrent logged-in users at a time,” referring to the increased demand on the GSTN system. If required, the device is also capable of handling 5 lakh, concurrent users.
In expectation of a rise in tax returns due to the pandemic and eventual deferrals at the initial deadlines, the bandwidth of GSTN was expanded from 1.5 lakh concurrent users in June.
“Taking note of the surge during peak filing, GSTN also took into account the efficiency and stress checking of device applications that helped to recognize and eliminate bottlenecks in the software”. GSTN had done away with the redundant processing needed of the taxpayer’s queries, streamlined the management of the taxpayer’s workload by establishing different processing pipelines, based on the scale of the taxpayer’s invoice data upload, tuning framework, and database parameters, among other measures.