Finance ministry asks businesses to avoid last minute rush in GST return filing

The  finance ministry on Tuesday asked businesses to file their  Goods and Services Tax (GST) annual return for FY18 before the 30 June deadline to avoid last minute rush. Last minute filings of monthly returns by a large number of businesses and merchants had led to glitches in the GSTN portal in the initial months of GST implementation in 2017. In a clarification issued on return filin…