Trader gets GST notice for 17-pt decimal error

Ahmedabad | Wednesday | 9th May, 2018

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The Amount is Rs 0.77999999999883585 within five days," stated the notice pointing at the discrepancy of 17 decimals issued last week. As per the GST Act, taxpayers or companies must be provided at least 30 days' time to respond and submit a clarification for any notice regarding scrutiny of returns," said Harnish Modh, secretary, Gujarat Sales Tax Bar Association. I wish the figure was rounded-off," said Ghosh.Chartered accountants indicate that several such notices have been issued to citizens over discrepancies. "Please clarify difference between GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B amount of tax for the period Oct-17 to Dec-17. "Most of these notices have been issued manually and each provides a time frame of two to seven days to the taxpayer for issuing a clarification..