GST returns filing date further relaxed till Oct 10

Giving a long rope to industry, the GST Council today extended the last date for filing final returns by a month to October 10.
Also, for easier compliance, the council allowed businesses to file simplified GSTR-3B for four more months till December.
Briefing reporters after the 21st GST Council meeting here today, Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia saidfor companies with turnover of over Rs 100 crore, the last date for filing GSTR-1 will beOctober 3. For the rest, it will beOctober10.
Also, filing of GSTR-2 for July will have to be done byOctober 31, and GSTR-3 byNovember 10.
"For GSTR-1,2,3, we are giving a long rope and we are staggering the return filing date for July," Adhia said.

Date of GSTR 1, 2, 3 returns filing for the month of August will be informed later, he said.

Till yesterday, over 45 lakh GSTR-3B, 17 lakh GSTR-1 and over 13 crore invoices have been filed on the GSTN portal.
Due to huge rush of July GSTR-3B return filing, the GSTN software had witnessed some glitches and the last date of filing had to be extended.
Earlier this week, the date of final return filing for GSTR-1 was first extended toSeptember 10in view of rush in invoice uploading,instead of September 5 earlier.
Purchase returns or GSTR-2 was required to be filed bySeptember 25instead ofSeptember 10earlier.

GSTR-3, which is the match of GSTR-1 and GSTR-2,was needed to be filed bySeptember 30, in place ofSeptember 15.