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Context
- The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council extended the deadlines for filing GSTR-2 and GSTR-3 forms for July by a month each to November 30 and December 11 respectively.
What is a GSTR-1 form?
- This serves as the master form for all subsequent forms for the return period. GSTR-1 assumes that a business transaction that needs to be recorded on it involves a supplier and a recipient.
- The GSTR-1 deals with outward supplies. That is, it needs to be filled out by the supplier on a detailed basis, providing the invoice details of every transaction for the return period.
- Normally, the GSTR-1, for any month, has to be filled by the 10th of the subsequent month.
- The recipient’s form, detailing the inward supply, is to be auto-populated from the details provided by the supplier in his GSTR-1.
What is the GSTR-2 form?
- The GSTR-2 is to be filled by the recipient with details of all inward supplies
- Take the example of Company A supplying goods to Company B. Company A will log the details of the transaction in its GSTR-1. Company B will find these details auto-populated in its GSTR-2A.
- However, Company B will also have to provide other details — such as inward supplies from unregistered companies — to complete its GSTR-2.
- This has to be done by the 15th of the subsequent month.
- In case the recipient disagrees regarding the details in the GSTR-2A form, then he can communicate his concerns to the supplier who has the option to modify the GSTR-1 or leave it as it is.
Are there any other major forms?
- The GSTR-3 is simply an auto-populated form based on the details of the GSTR-1 and GSTR-2.
- It represents a consolidated monthly return and contains the tax liability along with the tax collected on outward supplies and tax paid on inward supplies by a registered person or company.
- The GSTR-3 has to be filled by the 20th of the next month.
- The GST Council allowed companies to file a summary GSTR-3B form every month up to December to ease their compliance burden.
