Ministry of Finance, through the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), has issued Notification No. 17/2025 – Central Tax, dated 18th October 2025, extending the due date for filing GSTR-3B returns for both monthly and quarterly filers. Exercising powers under Section 39(6) read with Section 168 of the CGST Act, 2017, the Commissioner has, based on the recommendations of the GST Council, provided this extension to ease compliance for taxpayers. The notification specifies that registered persons required to furnish returns under Section 39(1)—that is, monthly filers—may now submit their GSTR-3B for September 2025 up to 25th October 2025. Similarly, those covered under the proviso to Section 39(1)—i.e., quarterly return filers under the July–September 2025 quarter—have been granted the same extended deadline of 25th October 2025.
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
(Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs)
New Delhi
Notification No. 17/2025-Central Tax Dated: 18th October, 2025
G.S.R. 765(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (6) of section 39 read with section 168 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Commissioner, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby extends the time limit for furnishing the return in FORM GSTR-3B electronically, through the common portal, by the registered persons, as specified under:-
(i) sub-section (1) of section 39, for the month of September, 2025, till twenty-fifth day of October, 2025:
(ii) proviso to sub-section (1) of section 39, for the quarter of July, 2025 to September, 2025, till twenty-fifth day of October, 2025.
[F. No. CBIC-20006/45/2025-GST]
RAUSHAN KUMAR, Under Secy.
