GSTR-3B Due Date Extended to 25 Aug. 2017 for July 2017: CBEC Press Release dt. 19 Aug. 2017

The last date for payment of taxes and filing of GST Return in Form GSTR-3B for the month of July 2017 is 20th of 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.

In order to take care of these issues, 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 25th August, 2017. For those tax payers, who do not want to avail transitional credit in TRANS-I this month, the date for GSTR-3B return filing will be 25th August 2017. And for those who want to fill up TRANS-I this month, the last date for GSTR-3B return will be 28th August 2017, as announced earlier.