CBIC extends tenure of NAPA & amends Form GST DRC-03

CBIC vide Notification No. 37/2021–Central Tax extends tenure of National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAPA) to 5 years and amended FORM GST DRC-03.

Tenure of the National Anti-Profiteering Authority has been extended to five years;

Rule 137 of CGST Rules 2017 amended w.e.f 30th November 2021.

A new cause of payment has been added in Form DRC-03 for payment of tax ascertained through Form GST DRC-01A

“Intimation of tax ascertained through FORM GST DRC- 01A” inserted in heading as well as column 3 of Form DRC- 03.

The Government vide the said notification has extended the tenure of National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAPA) to 5 years and has also amended FORM GST DRC03. Pertinently, with the amendment of Rule 137 of CGST Rules 2017 the tenure of the National Anti-Profiteering Authority has been extended to five years, the amendment comes into effect from 30 November 2021. Further, vide the said notification, a new cause of payment has been added in Form DRC-03 for payment of tax ascertained through Form GST DRC-01A.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
(CENTRAL BOARD OF INDIRECT TAXES AND CUSTOMS)
New Delhi, the 1st December, 2021

Notification No. 37/2021–Central Tax

G.S.R. 842(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. Short title and commencement. -(1) These rules may be called the Central Goods and Services Tax (Ninth Amendment) Rules, 2021.

(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, —

(i) in rule 137, with effect from the 30^th day of November 2021, for the words “four years”, the words “five years” shall be substituted.

(ii) in FORM GST DRC-03, —

(a) in the heading, after the words “or statement”, the words, letters and figures “or intimation of tax ascertained through FORM GST DRC-01A” shall be inserted;

(b) against item 3, in column (3), for the word and letters “Audit, investigation, voluntary, SCN, annual return, reconciliation statement, others (specify)”, the words, letters, figures and brackets “Audit, inspection or investigation, voluntary, SCN, annual return, reconciliation statement, scrutiny, intimation of tax ascertained through FORM GST DRC-01A, Mismatch (Form GSTR-1 and Form GSTR-3B), Mismatch (Form GSTR-2B and Form GSTR-3B), others (specify)” shall be substituted;

(c) against item 5, in column (1), after the word and figures “within 30 days of its issue”, the words, letters, figures and brackets “, scrutiny, intimation of tax ascertained through Form GST DRC-01A, audit, inspection or investigation, others (specify)” shall be inserted;

(d) for the table, under serial number 7, for the table, the following table shall be substituted, namely:-

[F. No. CBIC-20006/32/2021-GST]

RAJEEV RANJAN, Under Secy.

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 were last amended vide notification No. 35/2021-Central Tax, dated the 24^th September, 2021 vide number G.S.R. 659(E), dated the 24^th September, 2021.