GST Portal Updates
• Return: Offline Utility for filing of Form GSTR-9
• Offline utility of Form GSTR-9 is available in the download section of GST Portal for the taxpayers. The excel based offline utility is
designed to help taxpayers to prepare their Form GSTR-9 offline. (refer Section 44 of the CGST Act, 2017 & Rule 80 of the CGST
Rules, 2017, available since May, 2019)
Refunds
• Refund amount entered, while filing refund application for excess payment of tax, will get rounded off now.
• Correct financial period will now be displayed in ARN receipt & Track ARN Status of Refund.
• Refund filed by UN user, downloaded in PDF format, will now show period as quarterly (July-Sept/ Oct-Dec instead of 13, 14,
15 ) and NA will not appear for refund filed for the period JulySeptember, 2017-18
• Registration – TDS
TDS Registrants whose constitution of business is “Authority or board or Any other body notified by Central/State
Government or statutory body/ government agencies” can now download their registration certificate
• Registration – GSTP:
GSTP will now get an intimation about disengagement of their services as and when done by a taxpayer.
• Search Taxpayer facility on GST Portal:
Search Taxpayer facility on GST Portal will now show return filing details of a taxpayer only when the relevant button (provided for showing its details) is clicked. (This is done to take care of performance issues on the portal during peak return filing period.)
• Return:
Taxpayer who have not filed their Form GSTR 1 for the month of March, 2019 can now amend invoices of July, 2017 also,
as drop down will appear for making amendments in the invoices of the July, 2017 month.
• Return – numeric character only in Shipping bill field:
Shipping bill field in Form GSTR 1 will now accept only numeric character(in the cases of copy & paste to populate the field).
• Return- Form GSTR 10:
User can now delete invoices online, in Form GSTR 10 starting with serial number ‘0’ (zero).
• Return –Form GSTR 9:
Now a message is also shown to taxpayer that Form GSTR-2A has been compiled on the basis of Form GSTR1 filed up to —— date and next updation will happen on —– date. Now updations of Form GSTR-2A is being done on weekly basis.