Monday, 4 September 2017

Beware before posting your personal GST information on Twitter

Tomorrow is last day to submit GSTR-1 for July'17. As usual, so many technical glitches, in between Circuit breaker was applied for Ten minutes on 1 lakh concurrency, and the professionals/taxpayers who were uploading their Return started getting error messages, and scared people immediately started sending screen shots of error messages to GSTN's Tech Handle on Twitter. 

Now Coming on the point, Be Patient while working on GST Portal. Do not just take screen shot and throw on any public platform or social media. The information shared by many contain Name of Tax Payer, GSTIN, their Sales Figures and other details. While sharing any sensitive information even with a closed vendor in many cases, with auditors and lawyers, we demand first NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) to be signed and here sharing all sensitive information with world.

So, I'll request or advise all GST Professionals or Taxpayers, Do Not get panic, if there is any technical issue. If you need to share full detail send on their helpdesk mail id (few days back, their mail box also exceed the limit and mail started bouncing back, but I believe by now, they must have got limit of their mail box exceeded.). But, if you need to share on twitter, take screen shot and remove all personal information before publishing the same. One method is, You can use insert shapes in word/excel/powepoint and cover it with black box. Thanks.

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