Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that no late fees will be levied on registered entities with Nil GST return filing between July 2017 and January 2020. Briefing the media after the 40th GST meeting in New Delhi today, Ms Sitharaman said, maximum late fee for non-filing of monthly GST sales return for July 2017 to January 2020 capped at 500 rupees.
Ms Sitharaman said, during the meeting, GST Council also discussed impact of COVID-19. The Minister said, inverted duty structure hitting GST collections was also discussed and also inverted duty structure in textile.
Ms Sitharaman said, GST Council is looking at correction of duty inversion in footwear, fertiliser and textiles. The Finance Minister said, a special one-agenda meeting will take place in July to discuss the compensation requirements of states. She said, discussion on taxing pan masala will hopefully be taken up at GST Council’s next regular meeting.
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