Is ACES Working?

By Vijay Kumar

THE last date for filing Service Tax returns has been extended to 29th April 2016, but is the ACES working now for the assessees to file the returns?

Legal Corner Icon — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured.An angry assessee asked us, "what is the use in extending the date when the site cannot handle traffic?" He sent us the above screenshot.

Another assessee told us that after trying for hours, he could successfully file one of his two returns. He will again try today.

We asked Ms. Bhagya Devi, ADG, Systems. She replied,

We are Monitoring every hour and there appears to be no problem. The fact that we have received 61484 returns till now goes to prove that.

Tax payers are able to file it. If there are issues they may be guided to the service desk or to send a mail to ADG systems.