[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. 32/2020 – Central Tax
New Delhi, the 3rd April, 2020
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),
read with section 148 of the said Act, the Government, on the recommendations of the
Council, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of
India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 76/2018– Central Tax, dated
the 31st December, 2018, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3,
Sub- section (i) vide number G.S.R. 1253(E), dated the 31st December, 2018, namely:–
In the said notification, after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted,
namely: –
“Provided also that the amount of late fee payable under section 47 shall stand waived
for the tax period 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 returns in FORM GSTR-3B by the due date, but furnishes the said return
according to the condition mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the said
Table, namely:--.
Table
S. No.
(1)
Class of registered persons
(2)
Tax period
(3)
Condition
(4)
1.
Taxpayers having an aggregate
turnover of more than rupees 5
crores in the preceding financial
year
February,
2020,
March, 2020 and
April, 2020
If return in FORM GSTR-
3B is furnished on or
before the 24th day of June,
2020
2
Taxpayers having an aggregate February,
2020 If return in FORM GSTR-
turnover of more than rupees 1.5
crores and up to rupees five crores
in the preceding financial year
and March, 2020
3B is furnished on or
before the 29th day of June,
2020
April, 2020
If return in FORM GSTR-
3B is furnished on or
before the 30th day of June,
2020
3.
Taxpayers having an aggregate
turnover of up to rupees 1.5 crores
in the preceding financial year
February, 2020
If return in FORM GSTR-
3B is furnished on or
before the 30th day of June,
2020
March, 2020
If return in FORM GSTR-
3B is furnished on or
before the 3rd day of July,
2020
April, 2020
If return in FORM GSTR-
3B is furnished on or
before the 6th day of July,
2020.”.
2. This notification shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the 20th day of
March, 2020.
[F. No. CBEC-20/06/04/2020-GST]
(Pramod Kumar)
Director, Government of India
Note: The principal notification No. 76/2018-Central Tax, dated 31st December, 2018 was
published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 1253(E), dated the 31st
December, 2018.
