ST return for April to June to be submitted by 15th August

Last updated: 23 June 2017

Notice Date : 22 June 2017

[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 EXCISE AND CUSTOMS)
Notification No. 18 /2017- Service Tax
New Delhi, the 22nd June, 2017
1 Ashadha , 1939 Saka

G.S.R. (E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with sub-section (2) of section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Service Tax Rules, 1994,namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Service Tax (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2017.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Service Tax Rules, 1994,-(i) in rule 7, in sub rule (2), after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-

"Provided also that the return for the period from the 1st day of April, 2017, to the 30th day of June, 2017, shall be submitted by the 15th day of August, 2017, in Form `ST-3' or `ST-3C', as the case may be."

(ii) in rule 7B, in sub rule (1), the following proviso shall be inserted namely:-

"Provided that the revised return for the period from the 1st day of April, 2017, to the 30th day of June, 2017, shall be submitted within a period of forty five days from the date of submission of the return under rule 7."

Note:- The principal rules were published Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide notification 1994 vide number G.S.R.546 (E), dated notification number 16/2017-Service Tax, 369 (E), dated the 13th April, 2017.

[F.No. 137/18/2017-Service x]

(Dr. Sreeparvarthy S.L.)

Under Secretary to the Government of India