In response to the demand of the trade industry and ongoing issues on the portal, the Finance Ministry has earlier decided to extend the last date for filing GST annual returns to June 30, 2019. The previous date for annual GST return filing was December 31, 2018.
But in the latest 35th GST council meeting, the union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has taken decision to extend the due dates of filing the Form GSTR 9, GSTR 9A and the GSTR 9C.