Merry Christmas to all the esteemed readers. We professionals & more particularly those professionals who practices on GST side are busy in meeting the deadline of 31st Dec’23 for uploading 9/9C for FY 22-23. It is learnt that there are issues in downloading 8A from the portal. Hope said issue must have been brought to the notice of all concerned & issue will be sorted out at an earliest to avoid inconvenience to the taxpayers. The finance ministry is aiming to roll out pre-filled Goods and Services Tax (GST) return forms before the next fiscal year, which is expected to resolve the issue of huge data mismatches leading to tax notices, a senior government official said. The department is currently analysing the additional cost of augmenting the digital infrastructure to prevent the system from slowing down or crashing due to culling data from different databases. “The pre-filled consolidated GST return form is a work in pr.......