{"id":1727,"date":"2016-11-08T16:34:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T11:04:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-11-08T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T11:04:33","slug":"gst-portal-goes-live-gstn-software-almost-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"GST portal goes live, GSTN software almost ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST portal goes live, GSTN software almost ready <br \/>GST<br \/>Dated:- 8-11-2016<br \/><BR>A new and simpler portal for the incoming Goods and Services Tax regime went live today that will enable easy filing of returns and tax payments through credit\/debit cards and other modes.<br \/>\nAs much as 60 per cent of the software needed to run GST is ready and GSTN &#8211; the company building the gigantic infrastructure and IT backbone for it, made the www.gst.gov.in portal live for migrating existing tax payers.<br \/>\nIt will test the software for integrating a welter of state and central levies before the &#39;one market, one rate&#39; tax model comes into being from April next year.<br \/>\nGSTN Chairman Navin Kumar said migrating more than 65 lakh VAT payers, about 20 la<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=16793\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>istration, refund, return filing and tax payment.<br \/>\n&quot;Because we started work in November 2015, today we are in a happy position that 60 per cent of the software development has been completed; 40 per cent is balance and that work is going on,&quot; Kumar said.<br \/>\nThe GSTN is building four data centres spread across Delhi and Bengaluru to ensure that the data is safe, secure and to ensure data recovery, whenever required.<br \/>\nKumar said GSTN has started importing hardware and by December all equipment would be ready and testing would start.<br \/>\n&quot;About 80 lakh tax payers will be migrated from the existing to GST regime. That migration we are starting now. We will generate a PAN-based provisional ID for each tax payer.<br \/>\nBy December, all the h<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=16793\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST portal goes live, GSTN software almost ready GSTDated:- 8-11-2016A new and simpler portal for the incoming Goods and Services Tax regime went live today that will enable easy filing of returns and tax payments through credit\/debit cards and other modes. As much as 60 per cent of the software needed to run GST is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=1727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GST portal goes live, GSTN software almost ready&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}