Every person registered under the GST Act has to periodically furnish the details of sales, purchases, and tax paid (ITC) and collected thereon by filing the return with GST Authorities. Before filing any return payment of tax due is a prerequisite otherwise such return will be invalid.GST registration would be required for all enterprises involved in the buying or selling or delivery of services exceeding Rs.10 lakhs a year in north-eastern and hill states, while the limit is Rs.20 lakhs for rest of India. All entities having GST registration would be required to file GST returns. GST return filing would be mandatory for all GST registered entities irrespective of if there was any activity/sale during the return filing period. Every Registered taxpayer will be required to furnish three returns monthly and one annual return. Similarly, there are separate returns for a taxpayer registered under the composition scheme, the taxpayer registered as an Input Service Distributor, a person liable to deduct or collect the tax (TDS/TCS).
GSTR-2 return will include details of the purchases by the taxpayer. GSTR-2 is prefilled for a taxpayer based on the GSTR-1 filed by his supplier. You just have to validate this prefilled information and make modifications if required. GSTR-2 will include the following details:
• The details of purchases auto-populated by the department
• Invoices on which partial credit has been availed earlier has to be submitted in a separate table.
Taxpayers will have various modes to file the statements and returns. Firstly, they can file their statement and returns directly on the Common Portal online. However, this may be tedious and time taking for taxpayers with large number of invoices. For such taxpayers, an offline utility will be provided that can be used for preparing the statements offline after downloading the auto-populated details and uploading them on the Common Portal. GSTN has also developed an ecosystem of GST Suvidha Providers (GSP) that will integrate with the Common Portal.