New Facility to Download Document-wise Table 8A Details of GSTR 9 on GST Portal

On August 17, Goods and Services Tax Network authorities released an update and notified about a new facility that has been provided on the GST portal to the taxpayers. With this facility, taxpayers can download document wise details of Table 8A of Form GSTR-9 A simple guide to GSTR 9 (GST annual return form) online filing procedure with due dates. We attached all screenshots and divided into 19 sections.

As per the released update. The details will be downloaded in excel format and it will be packed in .zip file. The document wise details of Table 8A of Form GSTR-9 can be downloaded through a new option ‘Document wise Details of Table 8A’ which will be available on the GSTR-9 dashboard, from FY 2018-19 onwards.

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This new function will help the taxpayers in reconciling the values appearing in Table 8A of Form GSTR 9, thus facilitating filling the Form GSTR 9. The new facility will be helpful for all the taxpayers to consolidate the values ​​displayed in Table 8A of the GSTR 9 Form, thus it will make the filing of Form GSTR 9 a bit easier.

The excel will have details of issues like values of Input Tax Credit (ITC) A complete guide for understanding the basics of input tax credit and it calculation with detailed examples under GST (Goods and Services Tax) India, as fetched in table 8A of GSTR-9, which are not matching with the figures engraved in Form GSTR-2A, along with details of document fetched from GSTR-2A to table 8A of Form GSTR-9.

If you don’t know already, the details in Table 8A of Form GSTR 9 get auto-filled by fetching details from documents in filed either from Form GSTR-1 or GSTR-5 Form of the supplier. But it needs to be kept in mind that documents and details visible in GSTR-2A (Table 3 & 5) will not be available in Table 8A of Form GSTR 9 because uploaded or submitted documents in Form GSTR 1 The complete guide for online filing GSTR 1 form in a very easy and step by step manner. We have explained its part 1 to part 13 with the original form screenshots or 5, are not for credit in Form GSTR 9’s table 8A.

Taxpayers can download the excel file by navigating to Services > Returns > Annual Return > Form GSTR-9 (PREPARE ONLINE) > DOWNLOAD TABLE 8A DOCUMENT DETAILS.

The excel file will have details of GSTIN, Trade Name or Legal Name of the supplier, the period (month) of document featured in GSTR-2A of the recipient, After it, the sheet will have details of B2B A helpful GST guide for consumers, B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) by SAG Infotech. We also included some important GST articles (invoices), B2BA (amended invoices), CDNR (credit and debit notes) and CDNRA (credit and debit notes amended), filed by the supplier in GSTR-1/GSTR-5 Forms, in separate sheets.

Along with all these, it will also consist of details from Form GSTR-1/GSTR-5 filed till 31st October of the following year. If amendments have been made, only the latest value will be fetched. With all these, it will also show the status of “ITC available for Table 8A” with the response “Yes” or “No”. In case of unavailability of ITC a column named ‘Reason for Non-accounting’ will be also available in it.

Two more things that need to be mentioned here are, first, the excel files will be downloaded in .zip file and if the number of documents is large then it will be downloaded in multiple parts. And the second one is that the details saved or submitted in Form GSTR-1/5 will appear in Form GSTR-2A, but it will not be included in the downloaded excel file.