{"id":68992,"date":"2020-10-06T09:06:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:36:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-06T09:06:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:36:29","slug":"recommendations-of-the-42nd-gst-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=68992","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations of the 42nd GST Council Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendations of the 42nd GST Council Meeting <br \/>GST<br \/>Dated:- 6-10-2020<br \/><BR>The 42nd GST Council met under the Chairmanship of Union Finance &#038; Corporate Affairs Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman through video conferencing here yesterday. The meeting was also attended by Union Minister of State for Finance &#038; Corporate Affairs Shri Anurag Thakur besides Finance Ministers of States &#038; UTs and senior officers of the Ministry of Finance&#038; States\/ UTs.<br \/>\nThe GST Council has made the following recommendations:<br \/>\n 1. Levy of Compensation Cess to be extended beyond the transition period of five years i.e. beyond June, 2022, for such period as may be required to meet the revenue gap. Further details to be worked out.<br \/>\n 2. Centre is releasing comp<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=23229\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>in this regard significantly, such that the timely furnishing of details of outward supplies (GSTR-1) by a taxpayer and his suppliers would -(i) allow him to view the ITC available in his electronic credit ledger from all sources i.e. domestic supplies, imports and payments on reverse charge etc. prior to the due date for payment of tax, and (ii) enable the system to auto-populate return (GSTR-3B)through the data filed by the taxpayer and all his suppliers. In other words, the timely filing of GSTR-1 statement alone would be sufficient as the return in FORM GSTR-3B would get auto prepared on the common portal. To this end the Council recommended \/ decided the following:<br \/>\n a. Due date of furnishing quarterly GSTR-1 by quarterly taxpayers to<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=23229\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>e default return filing system.<br \/>\n 4. As a further step towards reducing the compliance burden particularly on the small taxpayers having aggregate annual turnover < &#8377; 5 cr., the Council&#39;s earlier recommendation of allowing filing of returns on a quarterly basis with monthly payments by such taxpayers to be implemented w.e.f. 01.01.2021. Such quarterly taxpayers would, for the first two months of the quarter, have an option to pay 35% of the net cash tax liability of the last quarter using an auto generated challan. \n 5. Revised Requirement of declaring HSN for goods and SAC for services in invoices and in FORM GSTR-1 w.e.f. 01.04.2021 as under:\n a. HSN\/SAC at 6 digits for supplies of both goods and services for taxpayers with aggre<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=23229\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendations of the 42nd GST Council Meeting GSTDated:- 6-10-2020The 42nd GST Council met under the Chairmanship of Union Finance &#038; Corporate Affairs Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman through video conferencing here yesterday. The meeting was also attended by Union Minister of State for Finance &#038; Corporate Affairs Shri Anurag Thakur besides Finance Ministers of States &#038; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=68992\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recommendations of the 42nd GST Council Meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}