ACES Troubles

By Vijay Kumar

AN assessee informs:

Recently, the CBEC has come up with ST-3 returns for the period from October 2015 to March 2016.

However, it is full of errors, firstly due to the addition of SBC, in the new returns, files cannot be validated in Excel 2003 version.

Secondly, if one validates the return in a higher excel version, while uploading the file, the SAVE button on the ACES website seems to have been disabled thus no files being saved and processed further.

The assessee wanted us to resolve the issue. Hopefully the department will try to resolve.

Yesterday was the last date for filing Central Excise returns. We got calls and mails from several assessees that the ACES website was down for most part of the day.