Summary:
Tax practitioners from Gujarat have written to central and state governments that 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. GSTBA president Urvish Patel told DNA that the annual returns get feeds from previous returns filed by the buyer and the seller. Tax practitioners said that because of these troubles, only a small fraction of the businesses have filed their annual return. A senior official in SGST department also confessed that very few annual returns have been filed so far. Considering similar situation in the past since the roll out of GST, he does not rule out extension of deadline for filing returns..