The Government on Saturday extended the due date for filing of GSTR 1 to 10th October from 10th September.
On the basis of the decision taken by the GST Council today, the government has also decided to form a 3-member inter-ministerial team to look at the technical issues around GSTN and the problems users were facing in uploading their returns on the portal.
In view of the difficulties being faced by taxpayers in filing returns, the following revised schedule has been approved:
| Sl. No. | Details / Return | Tax Period | Revised due date |
| 1 | GSTR-1 | July, 2017 | 10-Oct-17 |
| For registered persons with aggregate turnover of more than Rs. 100 crores, the due date shall be 3rdOctober 2017 | |||
| 2 | GSTR-2 | July, 2017 | 31-Oct-17 |
| 3 | GSTR-3 | July, 2017 | 10-Nov-17 |
| 4 | GSTR-4 | July-September, 2017 | 18-Oct-17 (no change) |
| Table-4 under GSTR-4 not to be filled for the quarter July-September 2017. Requirement of filing GSTR-4A for this quarter is dispensed with. | |||
| 5 | GSTR-6 | July, 2017 | 13-Oct-17 |
Due dates for filing of the above mentioned returns for subsequent periods shall be notified at a later date.
GSTR-3B will continue to be filed for the months of August to December, 2017.
According to the government 45 plus lakh GSTR-3B returns have been filed, and only 17 lakh GSTR-1 had been filed till Friday. Around 13 plus crore invoices had been filed. However, with the GST portal crashing frequently, there has been widespread outrage among taxpayers about their inability in filing returns.
The GST Network was down due to heavy rush of returns and several traders and businesses. Consequently, the Government, on September 4th, had extended the due date for filing returns for July, giving taxpayers extra time for compliance.
The filing of GSTR 1 for August was extended to October 5, GSTR 2 till October 10 and GSTR 3 till October 15.
Read the full text of the Notification below.
