Date Extended for Goods Sent out of India on approval for sale or return | Notification No. 66/2020-Central Tax:
CBIC on 21st September, 2020 has came out with three new notifications in GST. Unfortunately, this isn’t the notification which were awaited by all the professionals as the due date for filing annual return is near. However, the Notification No. 66/2020-Central Tax comes as a relief to those taxpayers who has sent goods out of India on approval for sale or return to comply within the extended due date. The notifications is given below for your reference.
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
(CENTRAL BOARD OF INDIRECT TAXES AND CUSTOMS)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 21st September, 2020
No. 66/2020–Central Tax
G.S.R. 571(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 168A of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), read with section 20 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), and section 21 of the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (14 of 2017), the Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 35/2020-Central Tax, dated the 3rd April, 2020, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 235(E), dated the 3rd April, 2020, namely:-
In the said notification, in the first paragraph, in clause (i), after the first proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely: –
“Provided further that where, any time limit for completion or compliance of any action, by any person, has been specified in, or prescribed or notified under sub-section (7) of section 31 of the said Act in respect of goods being sent or taken out of India on approval for sale or return, which falls during the period from the 20th day of March, 2020 to the 30th day of October, 2020, and where completion or compliance of such action has not been made within such time, then, the time limit for completion or compliance of such action, shall stand extended up to the 31st day
of October, 2020.”.
[F.No. CBEC-20/06/08/2019-GST]
PRAMOD KUMAR, Director
Note: The principal notification No. 35/2020-Central Tax, dated the 3rd April, 2020 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 235(E), dated the 3rd April, 2020 and was last amended by notification No. 65/2020 – Central Tax, dated the 1st September, 2020, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide number G.S.R. 542(E), dated the 1st September, 2020.
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