Government has extended the deadline to file GSTR 1 by October 10th. GSTR 2 and GSTR 3 can be filed till October 31st and November 10th respectively.

The central government has extended the deadline for filing GSTR 1 to 10th October. Earlier, the deadline was September 10th. This development comes as a relief to a number of individuals and businesses, who had complained of technical issues while registering for GSTN and filing the returns online.

Along with extending the deadline, the government has also formed a 3 member committee to look into the possible technical issues on the GST portal. The decision of forming 3 members inter-ministerial committee was taken at the 21st meeting of GST Council, which concluded in Hyderabad on Saturday, 9th September 2017.

Welcoming the move to form the committee, industry veterans stated that they hope the team addresses the issues around GST portal immediately to make it easier for the businesses to continue their operations without worrying for the terms related to GST.

According to a government statement, the portal has seen over 45 lakh GSTR-3B filed, however, the number of GSTR 1 filing has just touched 17 lakh. The number of total invoices filed has touched 13 crores. However, the government acknowledged the fact that frequent crashing of GST portal has caused a lot of inconvenience for the taxpayers and the government is looking to address that immediately. Filing of GSTR 2 and GSTR 3 has also been extended until October 31st and November 10th respectively.