What is form DRC-03? DRC-03 is a voluntary tax payment form in which a taxpayer can pay the tax by raising its liability voluntarily or in response to the show-cause notice (SCN) raised by the GST department. DRC-03 is a form under the GST law that is required to be filed for voluntary tax payments towards demand or tax shortfall noticed later on after the time limit to file returns of a financial year expires. CGST Rule 142(2) and (3) entails filing of this form. Below is the format of Form DRC-03: The following are the causes for making payment under DRC-03: 1. Audit/Reconciliation Statement: Where the GST auditor has for the financial year under audit, discovered any case of short payment of tax, interest or penalties or excess claim of the input tax credit, and the time limit to report the same in GST returns is expired, the taxpayer must make voluntary payment in DRC-03 and report it in GSTR-9 . GST Auditor should report it in GSTR-9C too. 2. In...