{"id":16751,"date":"2020-09-22T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T07:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/?p=16751"},"modified":"2023-03-06T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T11:00:30","slug":"implementation-of-delinking-credit-debit-notes-on-the-gstn-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/implementation-of-delinking-credit-debit-notes-on-the-gstn-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Implementation of Delinking Credit\/Debit Notes on the GSTN Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The De-linking of new invoices and\ncredit and debit notes are registered under the GSTN portal. The same was\namended in CGST amendment Act, 2018 with the effect from February 1, 2019. Still,\nthe same is registered on September 14, 2020, on the portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After more than 1.5 years of the\namendment in Section 34 of the CGST Act, 2017, Goods and Service Tax Network\nhas finally allowed the facility to report consolidated credit or debit notes\nunder GSTR-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"cursor:pointer\">Page Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/implementation-of-delinking-credit-debit-notes-on-the-gstn-portal\/#What_is_Section_34_under_CGST_Act\" >What is Section 34 under CGST Act?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/implementation-of-delinking-credit-debit-notes-on-the-gstn-portal\/#Lets_understand_this_amendment_with_help_of_an_illustration\" >Let\u2019s understand this amendment with help of an illustration<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/implementation-of-delinking-credit-debit-notes-on-the-gstn-portal\/#Conditions_before_Amendment\" >Conditions\nbefore Amendment<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/implementation-of-delinking-credit-debit-notes-on-the-gstn-portal\/#Conditions_after_Amendments\" >Conditions\nafter Amendments<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/implementation-of-delinking-credit-debit-notes-on-the-gstn-portal\/#Conclusion\" >Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Section_34_under_CGST_Act\"><\/span>What is Section 34 under CGST Act?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Section 34 of the Central Goods and Services Act, 2017, which deals with Credit or Debit note under GST regime, where a person is registered under the <a href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/gst-registration\"><strong>Goods and services tax<\/strong><\/a>. The registered person has to issue more than two different credit or debit notes in reference to the multiple tax invoices in a financial year under GST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-left\"><b>Read our article<\/b>:<mark style=\"background: #fffd03 !important;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/know-about-inspection-under-gst\/\">All you need to Know about Inspection under GST<\/a><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lets_understand_this_amendment_with_help_of_an_illustration\"><\/span>Let\u2019s understand this amendment with help of an illustration<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"shadow1\"><strong> For example:<\/strong> Mr. X issued 5 tax invoices in the month of August 2020; Credit notes will be issued for the sale returns along with the invoices note under GST.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>The question is whether Mr. X has to issue 5 different credit notes or consolidated credit note for these 5 tax invoices.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the amendment in Section 34 Mr. X has to issue five credit notes, but after the amendment, he can issue one consolidated credit note for five tax invoices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image-89.png\" alt=\" amendment with help of an illustration\" class=\"wp-image-16752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image-89.png 679w, https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image-89-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conditions_before_Amendment\"><\/span>Conditions\nbefore Amendment<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before amendments under section 34\nof CGST Act; a registered person needs to mention the \u201cOriginal date and number\nof the tax invoice\u201d in order to report for credit or debit note issued in\nGSTR-1 on the GST Portal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The taxpayers selling through online platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm, etc. can claim this task to issue different credit or debit note for different tax invoices under GST law. It is burdensome compliance as they need to spend more time, money, and effort to maintain the records of credit or debit notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conditions_after_Amendments\"><\/span>Conditions\nafter Amendments<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After the amendment, the facility to issue a consolidated or single credit note, against more than two tax invoices raised in a financial year which has executed on the <strong>GST portal<\/strong><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gst.gov.in\/\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One can easily understand that the\nGSTN portal does not ask for \u201coriginal date and number of the tax invoice\u201d as\ncredit or debit note is delinked from original invoice on the portal. This helps\nthe taxpayers to account single credit or debit note with reference to multiple\ntax invoices raised in a financial year in GSTR-1 form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite of the amendment in the <em><strong>CGST Act, 2017<\/strong><\/em>, the GSTN portal did not have a functionality link for multiple tax invoices with a single credit or debit note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusion\"><\/span>Conclusion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The much-awaited de-linking of original invoices and credit or debit notes has now been allowed on the GSTN portal. The Amendment says that the facility to issue a consolidated or single credit note, against more than two tax invoices raised in a financial year, are now allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-left\"><b>Read our article<\/b>:<mark style=\"background: #fffd03 !important;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/list-of-goods-and-services-where-gst-is-applicable-latest-rates\/\">List of Goods and Services where GST is Applicable: Latest Rates<\/a><\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The De-linking of new invoices and credit and debit notes are registered under the GSTN portal. The same was amended in CGST amendment Act, 2018 with the effect from February 1, 2019. Still, the same is registered on September 14, 2020, on the portal. After more than 1.5 years of the amendment in Section 34 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,153],"tags":[1024],"acf":{"service_id":"96"},"authorName":"Sakshi Srivastava","authorImageUrl":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG-20180130-WA0007.jpg","authorDescription":"Sakshi has pursued B.B.A.LL.B.(IPR Hons.). She is an avid reader and is keen to gather and share her knowledge on the subjects relating to IPR, Company Law and GST. Priorly she has worked as a legal researcher and vide her articles she aims at improving the core knowledge of the subjects to the masses.","postViews":4249,"readingTime":2,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53092,"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751\/revisions\/53092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}