Last Date of First GST Return & Payment has been extended by 5 Days

The GST Imple­men­ta­tion Com­mit­tee, con­sist­ing of State and Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment offi­cers, has tak­en a deci­sion to extend the last date for pay­ment of the GST for the month of July 2017 to 25^th August, 2017.

Ear­li­er the last date for pay­ment of tax­es and fil­ing of GST Return in Form 3B for the month of July was kept as 20^thof August 2017.  Since it is the first Return to be filed under GST, the tax pay­ers and the tax prac­ti­tion­ers have request­ed for few more days to file their Return.  Also there have been requests from States which are hit with floods to extend the last date for fil­ing of GST Returns.  The State of Jam­mu & Kash­mir has also request­ed for exten­sion of time because of late pass­ing of their GST Ordi­nance. Some tech­ni­cal glitch­es are also expe­ri­enced by last minute return filers.

It has been spec­i­fied that for those tax pay­ers, who do not want to avail of tran­si­tion­al cred­it in TRANS1 this month, the date for return fil­ing will be 25^th August 2017.  And for those who want to fill up TRANS1 this month, the last date for fil­ing of returns will be 28^th August 2017, as announced ear­li­er. In order not to face any last moment tech­no­log­i­cal dif­fi­cul­ty in sub­mis­sion of return, all tax pay­ers are request­ed to kind­ly file their return well before 25^th / 28^th of August 2017 and not wait for the last date. Suit­able noti­fi­ca­tion is being issued shortly.