Finance
The government on Sunday extended the deadline for submitting the GSTR-3B tax return form by five days.
Taxpayers can now file their forms and pay their taxes for September, as well as the July-September quarter, by October 25.
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) announced this announcement in a notification issued on Sunday.
The CBIC also posted the update on social media platform X, saying, “@cbic_india extends the GSTR-3B filing deadline.”
GSTR-3B is a summary return that businesses registered under GST must file either monthly or quarterly.
The usual due dates are the 20th, 22nd, and 24th of each month, depending on the category of the taxpayer.
The deadline extension was widely expected this time, as the original due date, October 20, falls during the Diwali festival, when businesses and offices are usually closed or operating with limited staff.
Experts said that this move is likely to provide relief to many businesses and tax professionals who were finding it difficult to meet the deadline during the festive period.
Meanwhile, earlier this year, GSTN stated that, while GSTR-3B will continue to be auto-filled based on sales data from forms such as GSTR-1, any adjustments or corrections must be made before filing, using form GSTR-1A.
This corrected data will subsequently be automatically included in GSTR-3B. Once it is completed, taxpayers will no longer be able to manually alter the GSTR-3B, as they presently do.
“For the July 2025 tax period, to be filed in August 2025, the auto-populated tax liability in GSTR-3B will be final and cannot be changed after filing,” the advisory stated on June 7.
This measure aims to improve data accuracy across GST forms and avoid tax leakage.
Source: IANS
