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GST; What Changes would make it work

After several red flags in the way the GSTN functions, finally the Officials from the finance ministry have indicated that indeed these issues are being reviewed at the highest level. As a Chartered Accountant with my experience from Fortune 500 company wherein the end users were all highly qualified people, the systems need to be simple. In case of GSTN, the system was pretty simple in paper. However when we got to use it, the complications came out. The system is highly illogical or rather not tweaked to match the practical requirements of the stakeholders. Be it the registration or the backend access to the tax department officials. Changes that would make the system workable. 1. No Matching of Invoices. Currently the buyer and the seller has to match the sales and purchases. Though a very simple process it is highly resource consuming. Just imagine a single paise difference in invoice will lead to manually matching the invoice with at least 2-3 minutes of time being sp