The Mumbai zone of Service Tax department today said that it expects another 1.15 lakh active assessees of the total 2.8 lakh companies, to migrate to GST portal by Monday. So far, around 65,000 active assessees have already migrated to the portal since its launch in January this year. Active companies are the ones, which file Service Tax returns on a regular basis. "Around 65,000 assessees in Mumbai have already migrated to the GST portal so far and we do hope that the remaining assessees will also migrate to the portal by April 10," Service Tax Chief Commissioner and head of the Mumbai zone Piyusha Patnaik told(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna April 08, 2017 14:37 UTC