The due date for filing GSTR-9C that is 31st of January is approaching near. Tax practitioners are struggling with certain issues regarding OTP, Error while uploading Balance Sheet and the Profit &Cost Statement. In respect of the error while uploading the Balance Sheet the Profit &Cost Statement. The GSTN issued an advisory on the filing of GSTR-9C, which is as follows:
Advisory on the filing of GSTR-9C
Issue: Error while uploading Balance Sheet and Profit & Cost Statement while filing GSTR- 9C.
Solution: Balance sheet and Profit & loss statement/income & Expenditure Statement keywords used in office network firewall/content security filter firewall to deny upload of such files/content as these contain sensitive information. If this will be used on an open network all such mentioned documents can be uploaded successfully.
The GSTN also tweeted in a post about the following:
The main issues reported by taxpayers on 23.01.2020 were on OTP delivery.
1. SMS delivery: System logs are being checked and the problem will get resolved today.
2. Email Delivery service: Email delivery was affected due to security blocking of a particular email server of an email Service provider. This issue has been resolved.
Do you think that the due date for filing GSTR-9C should be extended?