Many of us and our clients are receiving Bank validation mails and messages from Goods and Service Tax Department in past few days. These mail usually contains errors in Bank Account Validation which includes Account closure, Account PAN not linked, Wrong name in Bank Account etc.
On 24.04.2023 GSTN has issued advisory for the Taxpayers which says:
" GSTN is pleased to inform you that the functionality for bank account validation is now integrated with the GST System. This feature is introduced to ensure that the bank accounts provided by the Tax Payer is correct. The bank account validation status can be seen under the Dashboard→My Profile→Bank Account Status tab in the FO portal. Tax Payers will also receive the bank account status detail on registered email and mobile number immediately after the validation is performed for his declared bank account"
Link to full text is given below:
https://www.gst.gov.in/newsandupdates/read/579
As we are aware that linking of Bank Account is mandatory at GSTN and non linking can result in Suspension as well Cancellation of GST Registration. Readers are advised to kindly check the Bank Account linkage at their respective GSTN Login.