The government has extended the last date of filing of GSTR-2 for July to 30th of November this year to facilitate businesses and all taxpayers. <br/><br/>Earlier the last date for GSTR-2 was 31st of October. GSTR-2 or purchase returns have to be matched with GSTR-1<br/>which is the sales return. <br/><br/>Finance Ministry has also extended the date of filing of GSTR-3 for the month of July to 11th December, 2017. <br/><br/>Earlier the deadline was 10th of November. <br/><br/>It said, a notification in this regard will be issued very shortly. This will facilitate about 30.81 lakh taxpayers for filing GSTR-2 for the month of July, 2017.