The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has waived the interest rate on account of the non-filing of GSTR-8 by certain e-commerce operators under section 52 of the Central GST Act, 2017.
Section 52 of the CGST Act, 2017 provides for Tax Collection at source, by e-Commerce operator in respect of the taxable supplies made through it by other suppliers, where the consideration in respect of such supplies is collected by him.
As per the notification issued on Tuesday, electronic commerce operators having the prescribed Goods and Services Tax Identification Numbers who could not file the statement under sub-section (4) of section 52 of the said Act, for the month of December 2020, by the due date, due to technical glitch on the portal but had deposited the tax collected under sub-section (1) of section 52 for the said month in the electronic cash ledger, interest will not be charged from the date of depositing the tax collected under subsection (1) of section 52 of the said Act in the electronic cash ledger till the date of filing of the statement under sub-section (4) of section 52.
The notification stated that “In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 50 read with section 148 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby notifies the rate of interest per annum to be ‘Nil’, for the class of registered persons mentioned in column (2) of the Table given below, who were required to furnish the statement in FORM GSTR-8, but failed to furnish the said statement for the months mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table by the due date, for the period mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the said Table.”
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