GST officers prodding businesses to deposit taxes by March 31 to meet fiscal target

Racing against time to meet the  GST collection target for 2018-19, tax officers have been prodding businesses to pay taxes by Sunday so that the amount gets reflected in the  GST revenue collection data for March to be released on April 1 (Monday), a  government official said. Since taxes collected by non-EDI (electronic data exchange) ports takes about four-five days to get reflec…