Point wise response by Shri Anurag Thakur elaborating measures taken and rectifying some of the misconceptions in the letter presented by Hon'ble Shri Mallikarjun Kharge - Leader of Opposition, Rajya Sabha.
On behalf of the people of India. I write to convey deep concern and sense of anguish regarding the unprecedented crisis the nation faces today.
New Functionalities made available on the GST Portal for Taxpayers in April 2021, w.r.t Returns has been listed in this news piece.
The government has granted waiver from payment of interest/late fee to normal & composition taxpayers and has granted relaxation to normal and quarterly taxpayers in filing Form GSTR-3B, and relaxation in filing Form CMP-08 for composition taxpayers.
In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Government has issued notifications exempting Basic Customs Duty and/or Health cess on imports of a number of COVID-19 related relief materials, for a limited period.
Government announces various relief measures for taxpayers under GST law in view of severe COVID-19 pandemic
IGST on Import of Oxygen Concentrators for personal use has been reduced from 28% to 12% to bring IGST rate on such personal imports at par with commercial imports of the same
The GST revenues during April 2021 are the highest since the introduction of GST even surpassing collections in the last month (March'2021).
CBIC has released the Central Goods and Services Tax (Second Amendment) Rules, 2021 wherein, a facility has been provided for filing GSTR-3B and GSTR-1 / IFF using EVC instead of DSC.
In order to enable the operationalization of re-crediting of ITC sanctioned as refund towards tax wrongly paid or paid in excess by debiting the credit ledger, a new enhanced PMT-03 functionality has been developed and deployed in the system.