new delhi traders body cait on sunday wrote to finance minister arun jaitley seeking further extension of the deadline for filing summary sales return gstr3b for september till december 31 claiming issues arising due to technical glitches on the gst portalthe finance ministry on sunday extended the deadline for filing summary sales return gstr3b for the month of september by five days to october 25with this extension businesses which wish to claim input tax credit itc benefit for july 2017march 2018 period can do so till october 25in a letter to jaitley confederation of all india traders cait secretary general praveen khandelwal said there are numerous technical glitches on the website because of which the dealersconsultants are unable to file their gstr 3b return for the month of septemberin the wake of no proper functioning of gst portal causing lot of harassment to tax return filers we at the first instance urged your good self to extend the due date of filing gstr 3b for the month of september 2018 till december 31 2018 cait saidthe traders body said this will ensure itc of financial year fy 201718 is not lapsed and further to make it in tune with annual return filing due dateit may also be inferred from the facts that the intention of the government is to increase the revenue out of late fees income which is shameful cait said in the letterit flagged technical issues in the portal since the last 23 days claiming it cannot take more than 150000 users at a time and is down due to serverit further said the entered figures are automatically being converted into zero and miscellaneous errors are popping up at the time of uploadingin such kind of critical situationa concrete solution is ought to be evolved and make gst a dream law and not a nightmare cait said urging jaitley to take the necessary action