New Delhi: Traders on Saturday complained that GST portal was not working making it difficult for them to file returns. For some August 20 was the last date for filing of return.
In the evening GST Implementation Committee, consisting of state and Central government officers, decided to extend the last date for payment of the GST for the month of July 2017 to August 25, 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 August 20, 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,” said finance ministry. It said some technical glitches were 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 25th August 2017. And for those who want to fill up TRANS1 this month, the last date for filing of returns will be 28th August 2017, as announced earlier,” said the ministry.
