Error in offline mode of service tax return

CA CS Sweta Solanki (CA, CS) (167 Points)

09 November 2012  

Hi Friends,

I have a party who has service tax no. starting with TAN instead of PAN.

i.e. XXXXnnnnnXSTnnn

While preparing ST-3 for April to June 2012 in excel utility, i found an error that STC code is not in correct format.

There should be 5th character alphabatic and not numaric.

I can't resolve this error. Please help me out.

As the return is not available in online mode and in offline mode i have above error, i am not able file return.

Thanks in advance...