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CBIC rationalizes late fee for delay in furnishing of the statement of outward supplies in Form GSTR-1

Last updated: 02 June 2021


Vide Notification No. 20/2021 – Central Tax, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has waived the late fee for delay in furnishing of the statement of outward supplies in FORM GSTR-1 from June 2021 onwards or the quarter ending June 2021 onwards. Read the official notification below:

[To be published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub- section (i)]

Government of India 
Ministry of Finance 
(Department of Revenue)
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs
Notification No. 20/2021 – Central Tax
New Delhi, the 1st June, 2021

G.S.R (E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by section 128 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017) (hereafter in this notification referred to as the said Act), the Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 4/2018– Central Tax, dated the 23rd January, 2018, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub- section (i) vide number G.S.R. 53(E), dated the 23rd January, 2018, namely: 

In the said notification, after the fourth proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely: 

CBIC rationalizes late fee for delay in furnishing of the statement of outward supplies in Form GSTR-1

"Provided also that the total amount of late fee payable under section 47 of the said Act for the tax period June, 2021 onwards or quarter ending June, 2021 onward, as the case may be, shall stand waived which is in excess of an amount as specified in column (3) of the Table given below, for the class of registered persons mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table, who fail to furnish the details of outward supplies in FORM GSTR-1 by the due date, namely: 

Table

S. No.

(1)

Class of registered persons

(2)

Amount

(3)

1.

Registered persons who have nil outward supplies in the tax period

Two hundred and fifty rupees

2.

Registered persons having an aggregate turnover of up to rupees 1.5 crores in the preceding financial year, other than those covered under S. No. 1

One thousand rupees

3.

Registered persons having an aggregate turnover of more than rupees 1.5 crores and up to rupees 5 crores in the preceding financial year, other than those covered under S. No. 1

Two thousand and five hundred rupees

[F. No. CBIC-20001/5/2021]

(Rajeev Ranjan)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

Note: The principal notification No. 4/2018-Central Tax, dated 23rd January, 2018 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 53(E), dated the 23rd January, 2018 and was last amended vide notification number 53/2020 – Central Tax, dated the 24th June, 2020, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 406(E), dated the 24th June, 2020.


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