New facilities made available by CBIC regarding filing of various GST Return on GST Portal

CBIC has enabled new facilities to fix the defects with respect to various return filing process for the Taxpayer. Following are the key facilities:

1. A taxpayer who has not filed their Form GSTR 1 for the month of March 2019 can now amend invoices of July 2017 also, a drop-down will appear for making amendments in the invoices of the July 2017 month.

2. A numeric character only in Shipping bill field: Shipping bill field in Form GSTR 1 will now accept only numeric character (in the cases of copy & paste to populate the field).

3. In Form GSTR 10: User can now delete invoices online, in Form GSTR 10 starting with the serial number ‘0’ (zero).

4. In Form GSTR 9: Now a message is also shown to the taxpayers that Form GSTR-2A has been compiled on the basis of Form GSTR1 filed up to dd/mm/yy and next update will happen on dd/mm/yy. Now updations of Form GSTR-2A is being done on a weekly basis. Source: GST weekly update dated June 8, 2019, issued by CBIC- Refer slide No. 13