Regulatory Analysis
The Indian Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has announced that new Invoice Reporting Portals (IRP) have been onboarded. IRPs act as a bridge between the taxpayer (or their Accredited Service) Providers and the tax authority backend platform called the GST Portal for the purposes of e-invoice issuance. Until the new 4 were IRPs announced, […]
As previously predicted by Sovos, the threshold for implementing mandatory e-invoicing has been lowered by the Indian authorities. According to the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs Notification No. 17/2022 – Central Tax, from 1 October 2022 compliance with the e-invoicing rules will be mandatory for taxpayers with an annual threshold of 10 Cr. […]
India has a Continuous Transaction Controls (CTC) System in place since October 2020. E-invoicing has been rolled-out in stages, meaning e-invoicing requirements are applicable to more and more taxpayers over time. At its current stage, e-invoicing is mandatory for taxpayers with an annual turnover of 20 Cr. rupees or more. On 18 July 2022, the […]
On 24 February 2022, the Indian Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) issued a notification (Notification No. 01/2022 – Central Tax) that lowered the threshold for mandatory e-invoicing. In India, e-invoicing is mandatory for taxpayers when exceeding a specific threshold (businesses operating in certain sectors are exempted). The current threshold for mandatory e-invoicing […]
On August 1, 2019, the state of Kerala, India imposed a two-year Flood Cess of 1% on B2C intrastate supplies on most goods and services subject to GST. The Flood Cess is set to expire on August 1, 2021. The implementing regulation can be found here.
Ever since the introduction of mandatory e-invoicing in India, B2C transactions have been excluded from the scope of mandatory e-invoicing. For these transactions specifically, there is a separate requirement: taxpayers with an annual threshold of 500 Cr. rupees or more must include a self-generated dynamic QR code on B2C invoices. Even though this requirement was […]
Indian officials continue to provide updates to the e-invoicing reform that partially enters into force in less than a month’s time on 1 October. Most recently, new release notes have been published on the API Sandbox web page on 8 September 2020. The changes introduced include for example: • E-Commerce Operators (ECO) have been enabled […]