Provide relief by lowering of interest rate for a prescribed time for tax periods from February, 2020 to July, 2020 - 51/2020 – State Tax - Jharkhand SGST

COMMERCIAL TAXES DEPARTMENT Notification No. 51/2020 State Tax S.O. No. 69, Dated 04th September, 2020 - In exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) of section 50 of the Jharkhand Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017) read with section 148 of the said Act, the Government of Jharkhand, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby makes the following further amendment in notification of the Government of Jharkhand in the Commercial Taxes Department, S.O. No. 49 State Tax, dated the 29th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of Jharkhand, Extraordinary, namely: In the said notification, in the first paragraph, for the first proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely: Provided that the rate of interest per annum shall be as specified in column (3) of the Table given below for the period mentioned therein, for the class of registered persons mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table, who are required to furnish the returns in FORM GSTR-3B, but fail to furnish the said return along with payment of tax for the months mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the said Table by the due date, namely:-- Table S. No. (1) Class of registered persons (2) Rate of interest (3) Tax period (4) 1. Taxpayers having an aggregate turnover of more than rupees 5 crores in the preceding financial year Nil for first 15 days from the due date, and 9 per cent thereafter till 24th day of June, 2020 February, 2020, March 2020, April, 2020 2. Taxpayers having an aggregate turnover of up to rupees 5 crores in the preceding financial year, whose principal place of business is in the States of Jharkhand Nil till the 30th day of June, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30th day of September, 2020 February, 2020 Nil till the 5 th day of July, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30th day of September, 2020 March, 2020 Nil till the 9th day of July, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30th day of September, 2020 April, 2020 Nil till the 15th day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30th day of September, 2020 May, 2020 Nil till the 25 th day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30th day of September, 2020 June, 2020 Nil till the 29 th day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30th day of September, 2020 July, 2020 2. This notification shall be deemed to be efective from the 24th June, 2020. [File.No Va Kar / GST / 01/ 2020] By the order of the Governor of Jharkhand Vandana Dadel, Secretary, Commercial taxes Department Note: The principal notification S.O. No. 49 State Tax, dated the 29th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of Jharkhand, Extraordinary, and was last amended vide notification number 31/2020 State Tax, dated the 25th June, 2020, published in the Gazette of Jharkhand, Extraordinary, vide S.O. No. 47, dated the 25th June, 2020.