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GST Official Notification No.17/2025

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

CENTRAL BOARD OF INDIRECT TAXES AND CUSTOMS

NOTIFICATION

No. 17/2025 – CENTRAL TAX

New Delhi, the 18 October, 2025

G.S.R.....(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 Secretary 

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