As many as 33 lakh GST returns for September have been filed till noon and 75,000 sales data are being uploaded on the GSTN portal on an hourly basis, its Chairman Ajay Bhushan Pandey said on Friday.

The deadline for filing the initial returns in GSTR-3B for September under the Goods and Services Tax regime ends midnight tonight.

Pandey said that the GSTN (GST network) system is stable and has been handling data at just 30 per cent of its capacity with 20 lakh returns being uploaded in the last two days.

Since the rollout of GST on July 1, this is the third month for which businesses have to file GSTR-3B returns listing out details of their sales.

For July and August, 55.68 lakh and 50 lakh returns had been filed, fetching ₹95,000 crore and ₹92,000 crore in revenue, respectively.

Pandey said that in the first two months, businesses have also uploaded returns after the end of due date and the number for September returns would go up eventually.

“If we see the capacity of the network, GSTN is using only 30 per cent of its capacity. So there is a lot of headroom available for the server to upload more number of returns,” Pandey said.

Last month, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had appealed to businesses to file GST returns before the due date and not wait till the last date.

To ease compliance burden, the GST Council has allowed businesses to file their initial tax returns in form GSTR-3B in the first six months of GST rollout till December.

Accordingly, the GSTR-3B returns would have to be filed by the 20th of the next month, which means September returns have to be uploaded by October 20.

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