Seeks to exempt certain class of registered persons from issuing e-invoices and the date for implementation of e-invoicing extended to 01.10.2020

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The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has issued a new notification regarding e-invoicing. Certain registered persons, excluding those specified in specific sub-rules and whose aggregate turnover exceeds one hundred crore rupees in a financial year, are now exempt from preparing e-invoices for supplies to registered persons. The implementation date for e-invoicing has been extended to October 1, 2020.

[To be published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Subsection(i)]

Government of India

Ministry of Finance

Department of Revenue

Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

Notification No. 13/2020– Central Tax

New Delhi, the 21st March, 2020

G.S.R. …..(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-rule (4) of rule 48 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017(hereinafter referred as said rules), the Government on the recommendations of the Council, and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue No. 70/2019 – Central Tax, dated the 13th December, 2019, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 926 (E), dated the 13th December, 2019, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, hereby notifies registered person, other than those referred to in sub-rules (2), (3), (4) and (4A) of rule 54 of the said rules, whose aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds one hundred crore rupees, as a class of registered person who shall prepare invoice and other prescribed documents, in terms of sub-rule (4) of rule 48 of the said rules in respect of supply of goods or services or both to a registered person.

2. This notification shall come into force from the 1st October, 2020.

[F. No.20/06/03/2020-GST]

(Pramod Kumar)

Director, Government of India

FAQ :

The implementation date for e-invoicing has been extended to October 1, 2020.

Registered persons, other than those referred to in sub-rules (2), (3), (4) and (4A) of rule 54 of the said rules, whose aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds one hundred crore rupees, are exempt from preparing e-invoices for supplies to registered persons.

The aggregate turnover in a financial year must exceed one hundred crore rupees for a registered person to be considered in this class.

The notification specifically mentions preparing invoices and other prescribed documents in respect of supply of goods or services or both to a registered person. It does not explicitly detail the requirements for supplies to unregistered persons.

The notification aims to exempt a specific class of registered persons from issuing e-invoices and extends the implementation date for e-invoicing to October 1, 2020.

Notification No : 13/2020-Central Tax
Source : http://www.cbic.gov.in/htdocs-cbec/gst/notfctn-13-central-tax-english-2020.pdf

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