Last Date for Exercising the Option by Promoters to Pay Tax at the Old Rates of 12%/ 8% with ITC Extended to 20 May 2019

[Notification No. 9/2019- Integrated Tax (Rate) dated 10 May 2019]

To amend notification No. 8/ 2017- Integrated Tax (Rate) so as to extend the last date for exercising the option by promoters to pay tax at the old rates of 12%/ 8% with ITC

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1), (3) and (4) of section 5, subsection (1) of section 6 and clauses (iii), (iv) and (xxv) of section 20 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017) read with sub-section (5) of section 15, subsection (1) of section 16 and section 148 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the Council, and on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 8/2017- Integrated Tax (Rate), dated the 28th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 683(E), dated the 28th June, 2017, namely:-

In the said notification, -

(i) in the Table, against serial number 3, in items (ie) and (if), in the entries in column (5), for the figures and letters “10th ”, wherever they occur, the figures and letters “20th ” shall be substituted;

(ii) in Annexure IV, for the figures and letters “10th ”, at both the places where they occur, the figures and letters “20th” shall be substituted.

[F. No.354/32/2019-TRU]