August 9, 2017
To,
The Revenue Secretary
Shri Hasmukh Adhia
The Government of India
Ministry of Finance,
(Department of Revenue)
(Central Board of Excise
& Customs)
New Delhi.
Dear Sir,
Ref: Notification No.
21/2017 – Central Tax dated 08.08.2017 [F. No.349 /74 /2017-GST(Pt.)]
Sub.: Furnishing of
Form GSTR-3B
This has a reference to the
above referred Notification issued by your office regarding the dates by which
the summary return in Form GSTR-3B has to be filed.
As per the said notification,
the Form GSTR-3B for the month of July 2017 has to be filed before 20th
August 2017. Accordingly, the effective last date for filing the same is 19th
August 2017.
While filling the Form GSTR-3B,
we are able to fill in all the details but when we try to upload the Form by
clicking on the “submit” tab, the uploading does not take place. We are
unable to move further.
Further, between the date of the
notification and the last date of filing the Form GSTR-3B though there are
eleven days but out that, five are holidays as listed hereunder:
|
Sr.
No.
|
Date
|
Nature
of Holiday
|
|
1.
|
12th August
2017
|
Second Saturday of the
month
|
|
2.
|
13th August
2017
|
Sunday
|
|
3.
|
14th August
2017
|
Janmashtami
|
|
4.
|
15th August
2017
|
Independence Day
|
|
5.
|
17th August
2017
|
Parsi New Year
|
As such, the effective working
days are just 6 days which are too short to ensure timely filing of the Form.
In view of the above, we request
your goodself to kindly consider the difficulties faced by the tax payers and
the professionals and extend the said date to 1st September 2017.
Thanking you
For
Bombay Chartered Accountants’ Society,
Narayan
Pasari Deepak
R. Shah
President Chairman
– Indirect Tax Committee
