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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Goods and Service Tax (GST) - NDA Govt notifies timeline for filing of tax returns under GST

 The NDA Government has notified the timeline for furnishing final tax returns for July and August under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime.

The GST Council, chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and comprising state counterparts, had in June allowed businesses extended timeline for filing final GST returns in forms GSTR-1, GSTR-2 and GSTR-3 for July and August 2017

In the interim period, businesses have to file GSTR-3B which is a summary of self-assessed tax liabilities with consolidated details of outward supplies and input credit.

The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has now notified the dates for filing the GST returns forms.

As per the notification, outward supplies in Form GSTR-1 for the month of July will have to be filed between September 1-5,2017

 For August, it has to be filed between September 16-20,2017

The original date for filing GSTR-1 was 10th of next month.

Details of inward supplies in Form GSTR-2 for July will have to be filed between September 6-10. For August, the date is September 21-25,2017

The original date for filing of GSTR-2 was 15th of next month.

Form GSTR-3 for July will now have to be filed between September 11-15 and for August the date is September 26-30,2017

The original date for filing GSTR-3, which is the monthly return on the basis of finalisation of details of outward supplies and inward supplies along with the payment of amount of tax, was 20th of next month.

As regards GSTR-3B, the GST Network portal has started the facility for filing of July returns from August 5. The last date for filing the GSTR-3B for July 2017 is August 20, while the same for the month of August 2017 is September 20,2017

Over 71.30 lakh excise, service tax and VAT payers have migrated to the GSTN portal and over 15 lakh new assessees have registered on the platform.

GST, which has subsumed over 17 different levies, has kicked in from July 01,2017

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