GST-Network -- the company managing the tax filing apparatus -- has geared up the IT network to handle the rush, its Chairman Navin Kumar said.
A last-minute rush had led to GSTN portal crashing last week, forcing the government to postpone the tax filing deadline by five days to August 25.
"About 48 lakh taxpayers have saved the sales data on the portal. Of this, 20 lakh have filed returns and paid taxes so far," Kumar told PTI.
The collection figure would go up substantially with the number of taxpayers doubling to 20 lakh as of today.
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Kumar did not give the tax collections numbers but said the remaining 28 lakh taxpayers will file taxes in the next two days.
"The GSTR-3B process include uploading of data, payment of taxes and preparation of cash ledger. Uploading of data takes some time. Since another 28 lakh have already uploaded data, we expect them to pay taxes," he said.
The government had on August 19 extended the due date for filing of GST returns and payment of taxes to August 25 from August 20 earlier after businesses complained of snag in the GST portal.
"There was a minor technical glitch for an hour on that day with problem of delayed log in. Still, 2.7 lakh returns were filed on August 19," Kumar said.
Besides, of the 15 lakh fresh registrations that have happened, as many as 10 lakh are expected to file returns for July.
As per estimates, a total of 60 lakh businesses are expected to file returns and pay taxes for July.
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