Important Keyword: F. No. CBEC-20/06/08/2020-GST, Section 164 CGST Act 2017, Notification No. 3/2017-Central Tax, Notification No. 50/2020 – Central Tax, Notification No. 58/2020 – Central Tax.

[F. No. CBEC-20/06/08/2020-GST]
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

New Delhi, the 1st July, 2020

Notification No. 58/2020 – Central Tax

GST: [To be published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i)]

G.S.R…(E). – In exercise of the powers conferred by section 164 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, namely: –

1. (a) These rules may be called the Central Goods and Services Tax (Eighth Amendment) Rules, 2020.
(b) They shall come into force from 1^st July,2020.

2. In the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), for the rule 67A, the following rule shall be substituted, namely:-

“67A. Manner of furnishing of return or details of outward supplies by short messaging service facility.- Notwithstanding anything contained in this Chapter, for a registered person who is required to furnish a Nil return under section 39 in FORM GSTR-3B or a Nil details of outward supplies under section 37 in FORM GSTR-1 for a tax period, any reference to electronic furnishing shall include furnishing of the said return or the details of outward supplies through a short messaging service using the registered mobile number and the said return or the details of outward supplies shall be verified by a registered mobile number based One Time Password facility.

Explanation. – For the purpose of this rule, a Nil return or Nil details of outward supplies shall mean a return under section 39 or details of outward supplies under section 37, for a tax period that has nil or no entry in all the Tables in FORM GSTR-3B or FORM GSTR-1, as the case may be.”.

(Pramod Kumar)
Director,
Government of India

Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide notification No. 3/2017-Central Tax, dated the 19^th June, 2017, published vide number G.S.R. 610(E), dated the 19^th June, 2017 and last amended vide notification No. 50/2020 – Central Tax, dated the 24.06.2020, published vide number G.S.R. 403 (E), dated the 24^th June 2020.

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