According to the notification, “Any taxpayer with a turnover exceeding Rs 5 crore should raise an e-invoice for B2B supplies,” as of August 1.
E-Invoice Turnover Changes
For businesses with a turnover of at least Rs 10 crore, e-invoice is currently required. The Ministry of Finance on Wednesday announced a new mandate that lowers the requirement for e-invoicing.
With this change, higher transaction volumes will be digitalized, sales reporting is expected to be transparent, errors and mismatches will be minimized, data entry work to be automated, and compliance could improve. Starting on October 1, 2020, businesses with a revenue of more than Rs 500 crore under the goods and services tax will need to use electronic invoicing (also known as electronic billing) for business-to-business transactions. Then, those with annual sales of more than Rs 100 crore were included, beginning on January 1, 2021.
Businesses with a turnover of more than Rs 50 crore started generating B2Be invoices on April 1, 2021; on April 1, 2022, the limit was lowered to Rs 20 crore. The threshold was reduced even more, to Rs 10 crore, as of October 1, 2022. Citizens must create solicitations on their inside frameworks or charging programs and report them to the receipt enlistment entrance (IRP) — a necessity to profit from the input tax credit.
According to Saurabh Agarwal, partner at EY, “The industry should audit its seller aces and ensure that any merchant providing goods or services and exceeding the threshold turnover of Rs 5 crore is essentially issuing an e-invoice from Admirable 2023 to maintain a strategic distance from any debate regarding profiting from input assessment credit.
The GST has inquired its innovation suppliers to create the entry prepared to handle the expanded capacity by December, a government official privy to the advancement told ET. The GST Council had determined that electronic invoice would be implemented gradually. The goal is to integrate all micro businesses into the formal economy. From January 1, the official stated that businesses with a turnover of more than Rs. 5 crore will be required to use electronic invoicing.
A machine can read the standard format used for electronic invoices. Before this, phase I applied to e-invoice turnover limits of more than Rs. 500 crore starting October 1, 2020. Phase II began with the issuance of e-invoices on January 1, 2021, by companies with a yearly revenue of over Rs. 100 crore.
Beginning on April 1, 2021, Phase III was opened to companies with a yearly revenue of more than Rs—50 crore. A year later, as phase IV, the government lowered the threshold for electronic invoices to more than Rs. 20 crore.
The e-invoicing system is used for transactions like
- Export sales, sales made under the Reverse Charge Mechanism (RCM),
- Business-to-business (B2B)
- Business-to-government (B2G) supply of goods or services subject to taxation.
The changes are given only for business with 5 crore turnovers.
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