Seeks to provide relief by lowering of interest rate for a prescribed time for tax periods from February, 2020 to July, 2020. - G.O.Ms.No. 15 - Telangana SGST

GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA ABSTRACT The Telangana Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017(Telangana Act No.23 of 2017) Tax period February, 2020 to April, 2020 COVID Relaxation Waiver of interest Notification - Orders - Issued. REVENUE (CT-II) DEPARTMENT G.O.Ms.No. 15 Dated: 05-02-2021 Read the following:- 1. G.O.Ms No. 122, Revenue (CT-II) Department, Dt. 30-06-2017. 2. G.O.Ms No. 82, Revenue (CT-II) Department, Dt. 21-07-2020. 3. From the Commissioner of State Tax, Telangana, Hyderabad, CCT s Ref No. A(1)/103/2017-I, Dt. 11-09-2020. ***** ORDER:- The following Notification will be published in an Extra-ordinary issue of Telangana Gazette Dt. 05.02.2021. NOTIFICATION In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 50 read with Section 148 of the Telangana Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (Telangana Act No.23 of 2017), the State Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby makes the following further amendment to notification issued in G.O.Ms.No. 122, Revenue (CT-II) Department, Dated 30-06-2017, and as subsequently as amended from time to time 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 Telangana. 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 3rd day of July, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30th day of September, 2020 March, 2020 Nil till the 6th day of July, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30th day of September, 2020 April, 2020 Nil till the 12th day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30th day of September, 2020 May, 2020 Nil till the 23rd day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30th day of September, 2020 June, 2020 Nil till the 27th 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 have come into force with effect from the 24 th day of June, 2020. (BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF TELANGANA) SOMESH KUMAR CHIEF SECRETARY SPECIAL CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT