Recently a new facility was deployed on GST Portal related to calculation of the Annual Aggregate Turnover (AATO) of the registered persons. Annual Aggregate Turnover (AATO) is calculated on the basis of the returns filed by the registered persons. The detailed advisory on calculation methodology of AATO has been specified under the ‘Advisory’ hosted at taxpayers’ GST portal dashboard. A functionality has been provided at the Common Portal to modify the AATO where taxpayers have reason to believe that the AATO has been calculated wrongly. In such cases, taxpayers may proceed to modify the AATO. In case such modification is made beyond a certain limit (as specified in the ‘Advisory’), the same shall be sent to the jurisdictional officer’s dashboard for appropriate action, if required.

However, it has been seen that many taxpayers have used the functionality to modify AATO just for confirming it, which is not required. In case, the AATO is correct in their opinion, they are not required to take any action.