Finance minister Arun Jaitley, while announcing the figures for GST collections for July, had said that a nominal late filing penalty of Rs 100 per day for CGST and SGST each will be levied for those who haven’t yet paid the GST.

Just 3.94 million of the total 8 million assessees filed their GSTR 3B returns till Friday,

The government today launched a GST training programme to skill around two lakh youths in six months to handle tax compliance issues like invoice making.

Job market eyes GST booster for over 1 lakh immediate openings....The job market is looking forward to a big boost from the new GST regime and expects over one lakh immediate new employment opportunities, including in specialised areas like taxation, accounting and data analysis. The historic tax reform, to be rolled out from July 1, is expected to help the formal job sector attain an annualised growth rate of 10-13 per cent and fuel demand for professionals in various segments of the economy, experts said.