Notification No. 02/2020 – Union Territory Tax: Seeks to provide relief by lowering of interest rate for a prescribed time for tax periods from February, 2020 to July, 2020.

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Important keyword: F. No. CBEC-20/06/09/2019-GST, Section 21 UTGST Act 2017, Section 50(1) CGST Act 2017, Section 148 CGST Act 2017, Notification No. 02/2020 – Union Territory Tax.

[F. No. CBEC-20/06/09/2019-GST]
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

New Delhi, the 24th June, 2020

Notification No. 02/2020 – Union Territory Tax

G.S.R (E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by section 21 of the UTGST Act, 2017 (14 of 2017), read with sub-section (1) of section 50 and section 148 of the CGST Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby makes the following further amendment in notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue), No. 10/2017 – Union Territory Tax, dated the 30^th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 747(E), dated the 30^th June, 2017, 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 24^th 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 Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana or Andhra Pradesh or the Union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep	Nil till the 30^th day of June, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	February, 2020
		Nil till the 3^rd day of July, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	March, 2020
		Nil till the 6^th day of July, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	April, 2020
		Nil till the 12^th day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	May, 2020
		Nil till the 23^rd day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	June, 2020
		Nil till the 27^th day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	July, 2020

3.	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 Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand or Odisha or the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Chandigarh and Delhi	Nil till the 30^th day of June, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	February, 2020
		Nil till the 5^th day of July, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	March, 2020
		Nil till the 9^th day of July, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	April, 2020
		Nil till the 15^th day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	May, 2020
		Nil till the 25^th day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020 Nil till the 29^th day of September, 2020, and 9 per cent thereafter till the 30^th day of September, 2020	June, 2020 July, 2020.”.

(Pramod Kumar)
Director,
Government of India

Note: The principal notification number 10/2017 – Union Territory Tax, dated the 30^th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R.747(E), dated the 30^th June, 2017 and was last amended vide notification number 01/2020 – Union Territory Tax, dated the 8^th April, 2020, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 243(E), dated the 8^th April, 2020.

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