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.
The Confederation of All India Traders has written a representation letter to Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman requesting an extension in the due dates of various Income Tax and GST Due Date Compliances that lie within the month of April 2021.
Due dates for filing of Form GSTR-3B from the Tax Period of January 2021 as per the revised Rule 61 of CGST Rules 2017 and Notification No. 82/2020 - Central Tax, dated 10th Nov 2020.
With effect from 1st January, 2021, all taxpayers with Annual Aggregate Turnover up to Rs 5 Crore have been given an option to file their Form GSTR-1 Statement and Form GSTR-3B return on a quarterly basis.
The new features related to filing of Statement/ Returns by taxpayers under QRMP Scheme, for the quarter Jan-Mar., 2021, which has been made available to them are summarized in this news piece.
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