GSTN Allows Secure Access to Officers for Processing the Tax Applications

Good and Service Tax Network (GSTN) reported 10,000 new GST registrations and 8,000 refund applications on the portal during the lockdown. The report is of 10 days since the lockdown started (till 3 April). To handle the GST registrations and online applications Get to know the complete GST registration procedure online on the Indian government GST portal official website. We have explained by the actual screenshot of every step. Read More during the lockdown, concerned tax officers are cordially requested to access their work via Virtual Private Network (VPN). The aforesaid data is derived from the reports of these officials.

On 31 March 2020, GSTN designated 1,748 tax officers from 18 states/UTs for the task of managing all the tax applications on the giant portal providing them secured access to office networks. In addition to the hill states that were already connected to the GST system via VPN.

Statistics for GST Registrations

As per the stats revealed by GSTN, the portal had 20,273 total registrations till 3 April out of which 10,077 were new registrations, 3,377 were core amendments, 3,784 were cancellation requests, 1,966 were cancellations by Suo moto and remaining 1,069 were cases of revocation. The aforesaid data is from 25 March to 3 April 2020 (first 10 days of the lockdown span). PM Narendra Modi announced nationwide lockdown w.e.f 25 March 2020 till 15 April 2020 to counter the explosion of COVID-19 spreading drastically due to human interaction.

GSTN offers technological services to 29 states/UT when it comes to online GST implementation. GSTN offers back-end support like processing of GST registration application View the complete amendment process in GST registration by step by step guide. Also, we have included how to amendment in core & non-core fields. Read More, refund application, audits, appeals and other assessments apart from giving front-end guidance to the taxpayer who visits the portal for his tax compliances.

Immediately after the news was out of the lockdown, the department provided office access to the tax officers of all the states and UTs enabling them to continue their work remotely.

VPN doesn’t let the backlog on the portal that might happen in case if the applications are not processed due to the lockdown. Due to the provision of auto-approval of applications, if the applications are not processed by the tax officers on time, then these shall be done manually by the officers to avoid any discrepancies.