E-invoice mandatory if Turnover exceeds ₹20 crores

Biz with over Rs 20 cr turnover to mandatorily generate e-invoice from April 1, 2022

Businesses with turnover of over Rs 20 crore will have to generate electronic invoice for B2B transactions from April 1, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has said. Under Goods and Services Tax (GST) law, e-invoicing for business-to-business (B2B) transactions was made mandatory for companies with turnover of over Rs 500 crore from October 1, 2020, which was then extended to those with turnover of over Rs 100 crore from January 1, 2021. 

From April 1 last year, companies with turnover of more than Rs 50 crore were generating B2B e-invoices. This is now being extended to companies with turnover of over Rs 20 crore.

With this, more suppliers would be required to raise e-invoices with effect from April 1, 2022. If the invoice is not valid, input tax credit on the same cannot be availed by the recipient beside applicable penalties.

 

 

E-INVOICE

CBIC made E-invoice under GST mandatory for registered persons having aggregate turnover above ₹20 crore in any of the previous years from 2017-18 till 2021-22 with effect from 01st April, 2022. The existing limit of ₹50 crores has been reduced to ₹20 crores vide Notification No. 01/2022 – Central Tax issued on 24th February, 2022.