CBIC makes amendments to the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017)



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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has introduced amendments to the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017. These changes, effective from January 1, 2021, specifically alter Rule 59, which governs the form and manner of furnishing details of outward supplies. Registered persons will now use FORM GSTR-1 for monthly or quarterly submissions, with provisions for using the Invoice Furnishing Facility (IFF) for the first two months of a quarter.

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

Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

Notification No. 82 /2020 – Central Tax
New Delhi, the 10th November, 2020

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 recommendations of the Council, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, namely: -

1. Short title and commencement. - (1) These rules may be called the Central Goods and Services Tax (Thirteenth Amendment) Rules, 2020.

(2) Save as otherwise provided in these rules, they shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017 (hereafter in this notification referred to as the said rules), for rule 59, the following rule shall be substituted with effect from the 1st day of January, 2021 namely: -

“59. Form and manner of furnishing details of outward supplies.- (1) Every registered person, other than a person referred to in section 14 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), required to furnish the details of outward supplies of goods or services or both under section 37, shall furnish such details in FORM GSTR-1 for the month or the
quarter, as the case may be, electronically through the common portal, either directly or through a Facilitation Centre as may be notified by the Commissioner.

(2) The registered persons required to furnish return for every quarter under proviso to subsection (1) of section 39 may furnish the details of such outward supplies of goods or services or both to a registered person, as he may consider necessary, for the first and second months of a quarter, up to a cumulative value of fifty lakh rupees in each of the months,- using invoice furnishing facility (hereafter in this notification referred to as the “IFF”) electronically on the common portal, duly authenticated in the manner prescribed under rule 26, from the 1st day of the month succeeding such month till the 13th day of the said month.

(3) The details of outward supplies furnished using the IFF, for the first and second months of a quarter, shall not be furnished in FORM GSTR-1 for the said quarter.

To read more in details, find the enclosed file

FAQ :

The CBIC has amended Rule 59 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, concerning the form and manner of furnishing details of outward supplies.

These amendments will come into force on the 1st day of January, 2021.

FORM GSTR-1 is used by registered persons to furnish details of outward supplies of goods or services or both, either monthly or quarterly.

The Invoice Furnishing Facility (IFF) allows registered persons furnishing quarterly returns to submit details of outward supplies for the first and second months of a quarter, up to a cumulative value of fifty lakh rupees in each month.

No, details of outward supplies furnished using the IFF for the first and second months of a quarter cannot be furnished again in FORM GSTR-1 for that quarter.




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