How to avoid the gstin panelty for a business that is not active.

I have created my GSTIN number in January 2018 for selling on amazon but then somehow I was not able to buy and sell products there. I sold only 3 items of around Rs. 1299 which is my total sale till the time. Since I was not aware of the GST tax filing, I left it unseen. Now I am getting the messages from GST department saying pay your tax to avoid penalty. And someone told me that GST penalty is calculated on a daily basis and you have to pay around 60k as a penalty to the government. Can you please help me with this thing how can I handle this. I can't pay this amount I am not even into the business.

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you have to file all the relevant returns with the laate fees as per your information there is no turnover so you can file the nil returns by that your liability will be 20 per day only

Hey thanks for your reply can you tell how that would be calculated and I also wanted to close my gstin no. Since I am not doing busines.

calculate the liability 20 per day
some late fees were waved so till September 18 you have calculate from 1st April 19 to till date and from October 18 you have to calculate from due to file 3B return.

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