Facility to File Annual Return GSTR9 & GSTR9A for F.Y 2017-18 is now available at GST portal

Facility to File Annual Return GSTR9 & GSTR9A for F.Y 2017-18 is now available at GST portal: Facility to File Annual Return GSTR 9 & GSTR 9A for F.Y 2017-18 is now available at GST portal for Normal Tax Taxpayers & composition Taxpayers. GST Annual Return Tab Live was activated on GST portal for F.Y 2017-18 few days ago and it was expected that soon functionality for the same will also be available on GST portal. Official twitter handle for IT related queries on GST cell has twitted that Facility to File Annual Return GSTR 9 & GSTR 9A for F.Y 2017-18 is now available at GST portal for Normal Tax Taxpayers and composition Taxpayers. For the financial year, 2017-2018, the GSTR-9 Form (Annual Return) due date was 31st December 2018 but later on CBIC has extended due date of filing GSTR9 to 30th June 2019 because of unavailability of Annual GST Return Utility. Hope new functionality will work properly and taxpayers can easily file Annual Return hassle free. Form GSTR-9 is an annual return to be filed once, for each financial year, by the registered taxpayers who were regular taxpayers, including SEZ units and SEZ developers. The taxpayers are required to furnish details of purchases, sales, input tax credit or refund claimed or demand created etc in this return. In the Annual Return for F.Y 2017-18, the details pertaining to the period from July 2017 to March 2018 are to be reported. In case, the taxpayer is registered after 1st July 2017, in such case, details for the period from the effective date of registration till 31st March, 2018 is to be provided in Annual Return.